Genesis 49:6
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6 May I never come into their council;
may I not be joined to their company,
for in their anger they killed men,
and at their whim they hamstrung oxen.(A)
Genesis 34:30
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30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”(A)
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Psalm 26:9
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9 Do not sweep me away with sinners
nor my life with the bloodthirsty,(A)
Psalm 16:9
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9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices;
my body also rests secure.(A)
2 Corinthians 6:14
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The Temple of the Living God
14 Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and lawlessness have in common? Or what partnership is there between light and darkness?(A)
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Luke 12:19
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19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’(A)
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Jeremiah 15:17
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17 I did not sit in the company of merrymakers,
nor did I rejoice;
under the weight of your hand I sat alone,
for you had filled me with indignation.(A)
Jeremiah 4:19
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Sorrow for a Doomed Nation
19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
Oh, the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
I cannot keep silent,
for I[a] hear the sound of the trumpet,
the alarm of war.(A)
Footnotes
- 4.19 Or for you, O my soul,
Psalm 64:2
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2 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
from the scheming of evildoers,(A)
Psalm 57:8
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8 Awake, my soul!
Awake, O harp and lyre!
I will awake the dawn.(A)
Psalm 26:4-5
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4 I do not sit with the worthless,
nor do I consort with hypocrites;(A)
5 I hate the company of evildoers
and will not sit with the wicked.(B)
Proverbs 12:5
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5 The thoughts of the righteous are just;
the advice of the wicked is treacherous.
Proverbs 1:15-16
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15 my child, do not walk in their way;
keep your foot from their paths,(A)
16 for their feet run to evil,
and they hurry to shed blood.(B)
Proverbs 1:11
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11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
let us wantonly ambush the innocent;(A)
Psalm 139:19
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19 O that you would kill the wicked, O God,
and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me—(A)
Psalm 103:1
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Psalm 103
Thanksgiving for God’s Goodness
Of David.
1 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name.(A)
Psalm 94:20-21
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20 Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
those who contrive mischief by statute?(A)
21 They band together against the life of the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.(B)
Psalm 43:5
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5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.(A)
Psalm 42:11
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11 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.(A)
Psalm 42:5
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5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
my help(A)
Psalm 30:12
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12 so that my soul[a] may praise you and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.(A)
Footnotes
- 30.12 Heb that glory
Psalm 28:3
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3 Do not drag me away with the wicked,
with those who are workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors
while mischief is in their hearts.(A)
Psalm 5:10
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10 Make them bear their guilt, O God;
let them fall by their own counsels;
because of their many transgressions, cast them out,
for they have rebelled against you.(A)
Psalm 1:1
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Book I
(Psalms 1–41)
Psalm 1
The Two Ways
1 Happy are those
who do not follow the advice of the wicked
or take the path that sinners tread
or sit in the seat of scoffers,(A)
Judges 5:21
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21 The torrent Kishon swept them away,
the onrushing torrent, the torrent Kishon.
March on, my soul, with might!(A)
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