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David's psalm of thanksgiving wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that ‖ savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

From the wicked † that oppress me, from † my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

† Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion † lurking in secret places.

Arise, O , † disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, ‖ which is thy sword:

‖ From men which are thy hand, O, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: ‖ they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. 

David's psalm of thanksgiving for God's mighty deliverances and manifold blessings.

Will love thee, O, my strength.

The is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, † my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

I will call upon the, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of † ungodly men made me afraid.

The ‖ sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

In my distress I called upon the, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

There went up a smoke † out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

The also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of ‖ many waters.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the was my stay.

He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

The rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

For I have kept the ways of the, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

I was also upright † before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

Therefore hath the recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands † in his eyesight.

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt ‖ shew thyself upright;

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.