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13     If you will focus your intentions in His direction
        and open your hands and reach for Him,
14     Where you have guilt on your hands,
        if you will send it far away and not tolerate sin in your tents,
15     Then you will lift up a face clean of all stains;
        you will hold your head high, secure, and free of fear.
16     You will forget all of these troubles of yours;
        they will pass beneath your memory like a drop of water that has just flowed away.
17     Life will become brighter than high noon;
        darkness will give way to morning.
18     Once again, you’ll trust in the presence of hope;
        you’ll scan the horizon and sleep safely.
19     You will lie down, and no one will terrorize you,
        and many will long to be in your good graces.
20     But the eyes of the wicked will grow dark as they lose hope;
        they’ll find no escape, and in despair,
        they’ll long only to breathe their last dying breath.

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13 “Yet if you devote your heart(A) to him
    and stretch out your hands(B) to him,(C)
14 if you put away(D) the sin that is in your hand
    and allow no evil(E) to dwell in your tent,(F)
15 then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;(G)
    you will stand firm(H) and without fear.(I)
16 You will surely forget your trouble,(J)
    recalling it only as waters gone by.(K)
17 Life will be brighter than noonday,(L)
    and darkness will become like morning.(M)
18 You will be secure, because there is hope;
    you will look about you and take your rest(N) in safety.(O)
19 You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,(P)
    and many will court your favor.(Q)
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail,(R)
    and escape will elude them;(S)
    their hope will become a dying gasp.”(T)

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