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Rh SELECTION 18 NATIONAL THANKSGIVING

Psalm cv GIVE thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name;
 * Make known among the peoples his doings.

Sing unto him, sing praises unto him;
 * Talk ye of all his marvellous works.

Deuteronomy viii FOR the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
 * A land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates;

A land of olive trees and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it;
 * A land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper.

And thou shalt eat and be full, and thou shalt bless the Lord thy God
 * For the good land which he hath given thee.

Beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments,
 * Lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
 * Then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God,

Lest thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.
 * But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth.

I Chronicles xxix BLESSED be thou, Lord, our Father, for ever and ever.
 * Thine, Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: