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13 You came forth to save your people,
    to save your anointed.
You crushed the head of the wicked house,
    laying it bare from foundation to roof.[a] Selah(A)

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  1. 3.13 Heb neck

13 You came out(A) to deliver(B) your people,
    to save your anointed(C) one.
You crushed(D) the leader of the land of wickedness,
    you stripped him from head to foot.

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He will execute judgment among the nations,
    filling them with corpses;
he will shatter heads
    over the wide earth.(A)

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He will judge the nations,(A) heaping up the dead(B)
    and crushing the rulers(C) of the whole earth.

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15 saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones;
    do my prophets no harm.”

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15 “Do not touch(A) my anointed ones;
    do my prophets(B) no harm.”

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26 He sent his servant Moses
    and Aaron, whom he had chosen.(A)

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26 He sent Moses(A) his servant,
    and Aaron,(B) whom he had chosen.(C)

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Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
    Samuel also was among those who called on his name.
    They cried to the Lord, and he answered them.(A)

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Moses(A) and Aaron(B) were among his priests,
    Samuel(C) was among those who called on his name;
they called on the Lord
    and he answered(D) them.

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19 Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful one and said,
    “I have set the crown[a] on one who is mighty;
    I have exalted one chosen from the people.(A)
20 I have found my servant David;
    with my holy oil I have anointed him;(B)
21 my hand shall always remain with him;
    my arm also shall strengthen him.

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  1. 89.19 Cn: Heb help

19 Once you spoke in a vision,
    to your faithful people you said:
“I have bestowed strength on a warrior;
    I have raised up a young man from among the people.
20 I have found David(A) my servant;(B)
    with my sacred oil(C) I have anointed(D) him.
21 My hand will sustain him;
    surely my arm will strengthen him.(E)

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20 You led your people like a flock
    by the hand of Moses and Aaron.(A)

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20 You led your people(A) like a flock(B)
    by the hand of Moses and Aaron.(C)

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19 Blessed be the Lord,
    who daily bears us up;
    God is our salvation. Selah(A)
20 Our God is a God of salvation,
    and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death.(B)

21 But God will shatter the heads of his enemies,
    the hairy crown of those who walk in their guilty ways.(C)
22 The Lord said,
    “I will bring them back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,(D)
23 so that you may bathe[a] your feet in blood,
    so that the tongues of your dogs may have their share from the foe.”(E)

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  1. 68.23 Gk Syr Tg: Heb shatter

19 Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,(A)
    who daily bears our burdens.(B)
20 Our God is a God who saves;(C)
    from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.(D)
21 Surely God will crush the heads(E) of his enemies,
    the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.
22 The Lord says, “I will bring them from Bashan;
    I will bring them from the depths of the sea,(F)
23 that your feet may wade in the blood of your foes,(G)
    while the tongues of your dogs(H) have their share.”

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O God, when you went out before your people,
    when you marched through the wilderness, Selah(A)

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When you, God, went out(A) before your people,
    when you marched through the wilderness,[a](B)

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  1. Psalm 68:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 19 and 32.

The Lord is the strength of his people;
    he is the saving refuge of his anointed.(A)

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The Lord is the strength(A) of his people,
    a fortress of salvation(B) for his anointed one.(C)

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Now I know that the Lord will help his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with mighty victories by his right hand.(A)

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Now this I know:
    The Lord gives victory to his anointed.(A)
He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary
    with the victorious power of his right hand.(B)

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37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them
    and did not turn back until they were consumed.(A)
38 I struck them down so that they were unable to rise;
    they fell under my feet.(B)
39 For you girded me with strength for the battle;
    you made my assailants sink under me.(C)
40 You made my enemies turn their backs to me,
    and those who hated me I destroyed.(D)
41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them;
    they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.(E)
42 I beat them fine, like dust before the wind;
    I cast them out like the mire of the streets.(F)

43 You delivered me from strife with the peoples;[a]
    you made me head of the nations;
    people whom I had not known served me.(G)
44 As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me;
    foreigners came cringing to me.
45 Foreigners lost heart
    and came trembling out of their strongholds.(H)

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  1. 18.43 Gk Tg: Heb people

37 I pursued my enemies(A) and overtook them;
    I did not turn back till they were destroyed.
38 I crushed them(B) so that they could not rise;(C)
    they fell beneath my feet.(D)
39 You armed me with strength(E) for battle;
    you humbled my adversaries(F) before me.
40 You made my enemies turn their backs(G) in flight,
    and I destroyed(H) my foes.
41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them(I)
    to the Lord, but he did not answer.(J)
42 I beat them as fine as windblown dust;(K)
    I trampled them[a] like mud in the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the attacks of the people;
    you have made me the head of nations.(L)
People I did not know(M) now serve me,
44     foreigners(N) cower before me;
    as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.
45 They all lose heart;(O)
    they come trembling(P) from their strongholds.(Q)

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  1. Psalm 18:42 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac and Targum (see also 2 Samuel 22:43); Masoretic Text I poured them out

12 And all the towns of those kings and all their kings, Joshua took and struck them with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.

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12 Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.(A)

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