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Psalm 1:1
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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)
Psalm 26:4-5
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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)
Psalm 26:4-5
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Psalm 26:4-5
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Proverbs 4:14-15
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Proverbs 4:14-15
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14 Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of evildoers.(A)
15 Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.
Proverbs 4:14-15
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Proverbs 4:14-15
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14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
or walk in the way of evildoers.(A)
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
turn from it and go on your way.
Proverbs 13:20
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Proverbs 13:20
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20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools suffers harm.(A)
Proverbs 13:20
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Proverbs 13:20
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20 Walk with the wise and become wise,
for a companion of fools suffers harm.(A)
Jeremiah 15:17
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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 15:17
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Jeremiah 15:17
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Psalm 119:1-2
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Psalm 119:1-2
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Psalm 119
The Glories of God’s Law
1 Happy are those whose way is blameless,
who walk in the law of the Lord.(A)
2 Happy are those who keep his decrees,
who seek him with their whole heart,
Psalm 119:1-2
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Psalm 119:1-2
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Psalm 119[a]
א Aleph
Footnotes
- Psalm 119:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, the stanzas of which begin with successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet; moreover, the verses of each stanza begin with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Matthew 7:13-14
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Matthew 7:13-14
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The Narrow Gate
13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy[a] that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it.(A) 14 For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
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- 7.13 Other ancient authorities read for the road is wide and easy
Matthew 7:13-14
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Matthew 7:13-14
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The Narrow and Wide Gates
13 “Enter through the narrow gate.(A) For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Psalm 1:6
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Psalm 1:6
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6 for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.(A)
Psalm 1:6
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Psalm 1:6
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Luke 11:28
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Luke 11:28
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28 But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”(A)
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Luke 11:28
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Luke 11:28
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Deuteronomy 28:2-68
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Deuteronomy 28:2-68
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2 all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the Lord your God:
3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.(A)
4 “Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, both the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.(B)
5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
6 “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7 “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.(C) 8 The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you undertake; he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways.(D) 10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.(E) 11 The Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give you.(F) 12 The Lord will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.(G) 13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be only at the top and not at the bottom—if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today by diligently observing them, 14 and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I am commanding you today, either to the right or to the left, following other gods to serve them.(H)
Warnings against Disobedience
15 “But if you will not obey the Lord your God by diligently observing all his commandments and decrees that I am commanding you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you:(I)
16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
18 “Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.
19 “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20 “The Lord will send upon you disaster, panic, and frustration in everything you attempt to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds with which you have forsaken me.(J) 21 The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until it has consumed you off the land that you are entering to possess.(K) 22 The Lord will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought,[a] and with blight and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.(L) 23 The sky over your head shall be bronze and the earth under you iron.(M) 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land into powder, and only dust shall come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.
25 “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way and flee before them seven ways. You shall become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.(N) 26 Your corpses shall be food for every bird of the air and animal of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.(O) 27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, scurvy, and itch, of which you cannot be healed.(P) 28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind; 29 you shall grope about at noon as blind people grope in darkness, but you shall be unable to find your way, and you shall be continually abused and robbed, without anyone to help.(Q) 30 You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house but not live in it. You shall plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit.(R) 31 Your ox shall be butchered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it. Your donkey shall be stolen in front of you and shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies without anyone to help you. 32 Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.(S) 33 A people whom you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; you shall be continually abused and crushed(T) 34 and driven mad by the sight that your eyes shall see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.(U) 36 The Lord will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, where you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone.(V) 37 You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you.(W)
38 “You shall carry much seed into the field but shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it.(X) 39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall have sons and daughters, but they shall not remain yours, for they shall go into captivity.(Y) 42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground the cicada shall take over.(Z) 43 Aliens residing among you shall ascend above you higher and higher, while you shall descend lower and lower.(AA) 44 They shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to them; they shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.(AB)
45 “All these curses shall come upon you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God by observing the commandments and the decrees that he commanded you.(AC) 46 They shall be among you and your descendants as a sign and a portent forever.
47 “Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything,(AD) 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lack of everything. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.(AE) 49 The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, to swoop down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,(AF) 50 a grim-faced nation showing no respect to the old or favor to the young. 51 It shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, leaving you neither grain, wine, and oil nor the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, until it has made you perish.(AG) 52 It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout your land; it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout the land that the Lord your God has given you.(AH) 53 In the desperate straits to which the enemy siege reduces you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you.(AI) 54 Even the most refined and gentle of men among you will begrudge food to his own brother, to the wife whom he embraces, and to the last of his remaining children, 55 giving to none of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because nothing else remains to him, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in all your towns. 56 She who is the most refined and gentle among you, so gentle and refined that she does not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge food to the husband whom she embraces, to her own son, and to her own daughter,(AJ) 57 begrudging even the afterbirth that comes out from between her thighs and the children that she bears, because she is eating them in secret for lack of anything else, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in your towns.
58 “If you do not diligently observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, fearing this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God,(AK) 59 then the Lord will overwhelm both you and your offspring with severe and lasting afflictions and grievous and lasting maladies. 60 He will bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were in dread, and they shall cling to you.(AL) 61 Every other malady and affliction, even though not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will inflict on you until you are destroyed.(AM) 62 Although once you were as numerous as the stars in heaven, you shall be left few in number because you did not obey the Lord your God.(AN) 63 And just as the Lord took delight in making you prosperous and numerous, so the Lord will take delight in bringing you to ruin and destruction; you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to possess.(AO) 64 The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.(AP) 65 Among those nations you shall find no ease, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing spirit.(AQ) 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, with no assurance of your life. 67 In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread that your heart shall feel and the sights that your eyes shall see.(AR) 68 The Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, by a route that I promised you would never see again, and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
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- 28.22 Gk Syr Tg: MT the sword
Deuteronomy 28:2-68
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Deuteronomy 28:2-68
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2 All these blessings will come on you(A) and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:
3 You will be blessed(B) in the city and blessed in the country.(C)
4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.(D)
5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.
6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.(E)
7 The Lord will grant that the enemies(F) who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.(G)
8 The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless(H) you in the land he is giving you.
9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people,(I) as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands(J) of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name(K) of the Lord, and they will fear you. 11 The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock(L) and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.(M)
12 The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse(N) of his bounty,(O) to send rain(P) on your land in season and to bless(Q) all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.(R) 13 The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow(S) them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.(T) 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left,(U) following other gods and serving them.
Curses for Disobedience
15 However, if you do not obey(V) the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,(W) all these curses will come on you and overtake you:(X)
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.(Y)
17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.(Z)
18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.(AA)
19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.(AB)
20 The Lord will send on you curses,(AC) confusion and rebuke(AD) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin(AE) because of the evil(AF) you have done in forsaking him.[a] 21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.(AG) 22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,(AH) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,(AI) with blight(AJ) and mildew, which will plague(AK) you until you perish.(AL) 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.(AM) 24 The Lord will turn the rain(AN) of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated(AO) before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven,(AP) and you will become a thing of horror(AQ) to all the kingdoms on earth.(AR) 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds(AS) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(AT) 27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt(AU) and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29 At midday you will grope(AV) about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue(AW) you.
30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.(AX) You will build a house, but you will not live in it.(AY) You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.(AZ) 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation,(BA) and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression(BB) all your days.(BC) 34 The sights you see will drive you mad.(BD) 35 The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils(BE) that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.(BF)
36 The Lord will drive you and the king(BG) you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors.(BH) There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.(BI) 37 You will become a thing of horror,(BJ) a byword(BK) and an object of ridicule(BL) among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.(BM)
38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,(BN) because locusts(BO) will devour(BP) it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine(BQ) or gather the grapes, because worms will eat(BR) them.(BS) 40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.(BT) 41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.(BU) 42 Swarms of locusts(BV) will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.
43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.(BW) 44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them.(BX) They will be the head, but you will be the tail.(BY)
45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you(BZ) until you are destroyed,(CA) because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.(CB) 47 Because you did not serve(CC) the Lord your God joyfully and gladly(CD) in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst,(CE) in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke(CF) on your neck(CG) until he has destroyed you.
49 The Lord will bring a nation against you(CH) from far away, from the ends of the earth,(CI) like an eagle(CJ) swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,(CK) 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old(CL) or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine(CM) or olive oil,(CN) nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.(CO) 52 They will lay siege(CP) to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.(CQ)
53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.(CR) 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.(CS) 56 The most gentle and sensitive(CT) woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter(CU) 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them(CV) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.
58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law,(CW) which are written in this book, and do not revere(CX) this glorious and awesome name(CY)—the Lord your God— 59 the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt(CZ) that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law,(DA) until you are destroyed.(DB) 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky(DC) will be left but few(DD) in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as it pleased(DE) the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please(DF) him to ruin and destroy you.(DG) You will be uprooted(DH) from the land you are entering to possess.
64 Then the Lord will scatter(DI) you among all nations,(DJ) from one end of the earth to the other.(DK) There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.(DL) 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place(DM) for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes(DN) weary with longing, and a despairing heart.(DO) 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.(DP) 68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again.(DQ) There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
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- Deuteronomy 28:20 Hebrew me
Proverbs 1:15
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Proverbs 1:15
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15 my child, do not walk in their way;
keep your foot from their paths,(A)
Proverbs 1:15
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Proverbs 1:15
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Psalm 36:4
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Psalm 36:4
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4 They plot mischief while on their beds;
they are set on a way that is not good;
they do not reject evil.(A)
Psalm 36:4
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Psalm 36:4
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Psalm 34:8
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Psalm 34:8
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8 O taste and see that the Lord is good;
happy are those who take refuge in him.(A)
Psalm 34:8
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Psalm 34:8
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