Let my soul come not into their council;
    (A)O my glory, (B)be not joined to their company.
For in their anger they killed men,
    and in their willfulness they (C)hamstrung oxen.

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30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, (A)“You have brought trouble on me (B)by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, (C)the Canaanites and the Perizzites. (D)My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

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(A)Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,
    nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

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Hide me from (A)the secret plots of the wicked,
    from the throng of evildoers,

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    (A)Awake, (B)my glory![a]
Awake, (C)O harp and lyre!
    I will awake the dawn!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 57:8 Or my whole being

Therefore my heart is glad, and my (A)whole being[a] rejoices;
    my flesh also dwells secure.

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  1. Psalm 16:9 Hebrew my glory

The Temple of the Living God

14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For (B)what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or (C)what fellowship has light with darkness?

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19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up (A)for many years; relax, (B)eat, drink, be merry.”’

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17 (A)I did not sit in the company of revelers,
    nor did I rejoice;
(B)I sat alone, because your hand was upon me,
    for you had filled me with indignation.

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Anguish over Judah's Desolation

19 (A)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 hear the sound of the trumpet,
    the alarm of war.

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(A)The thoughts of the righteous are just;
    the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

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15 my son, (A)do not walk in the way with them;
    (B)hold back your foot from their paths,
16 for (C)their feet run to evil,
    and they make haste to shed blood.

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11 If they say, “Come with us, (A)let us lie in wait for blood;
    (B)let us ambush the innocent without reason;

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19 Oh that you would (A)slay the wicked, O God!
    O (B)men of blood, (C)depart from me!

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Bless the Lord, O My Soul

Of David.

103 (A)Bless the Lord, O my soul,
    and all that is within me,
    bless his holy name!

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20 Can (A)wicked rulers be allied with you,
    those who frame[a] injustice by (B)statute?
21 They (C)band together against the life of the righteous
    and condemn (D)the innocent to death.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 94:20 Or fashion
  2. Psalm 94:21 Hebrew condemn innocent blood

(A)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you in turmoil within me?
(B)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation and my God.

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11 (A)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation and my God.

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(A)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you (B)in turmoil within me?
(C)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:5

12 that my (A)glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
    O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

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Do not (A)drag me off with the wicked,
    with the workers of evil,
(B)who speak peace with their neighbors
    while evil is in their hearts.

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I do not (A)sit with men of (B)falsehood,
    nor do I consort with hypocrites.
I (C)hate the assembly of evildoers,
    and I will not sit with the wicked.

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10 (A)Make them bear their guilt, O God;
    let them (B)fall by their own counsels;
because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out,
    for they have rebelled against you.

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Book One

The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked

Blessed is the man[a]
    who (A)walks not in (B)the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in (C)the way of sinners,
    nor (D)sits in (E)the seat of (F)scoffers;

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 1:1 The singular Hebrew word for man (ish) is used here to portray a representative example of a godly person; see Preface

21 (A)The torrent Kishon swept them away,
    the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.
    March on, my soul, with might!

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