The voice of the Lord twists the oaks[a](A)
    and strips the forests bare.
And in his temple all cry, “Glory!”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 29:9 Or Lord makes the deer give birth

The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

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46 “Son of man, set your face toward(A) the south; preach against the south and prophesy against(B) the forest of the southland.(C) 47 Say to the southern forest:(D) ‘Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to set fire to you, and it will consume(E) all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from south to north(F) will be scorched by it.(G) 48 Everyone will see that I the Lord have kindled it; it will not be quenched.(H)’”

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46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;

47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

48 And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.

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Therefore we will not fear,(A) though the earth give way(B)
    and the mountains fall(C) into the heart of the sea,(D)
though its waters roar(E) and foam(F)
    and the mountains quake(G) with their surging.[a]

There is a river(H) whose streams(I) make glad the city of God,(J)
    the holy place where the Most High(K) dwells.(L)
God is within her,(M) she will not fall;(N)
    God will help(O) her at break of day.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 46:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 7 and 11.

Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

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Within your temple, O God,
    we meditate(A) on your unfailing love.(B)

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We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

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Lord, I love(A) the house where you live,
    the place where your glory dwells.(B)

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Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

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39 “Do you know when the mountain goats(A) give birth?
    Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?(B)
Do you count the months till they bear?
    Do you know the time they give birth?(C)
They crouch down and bring forth their young;
    their labor pains are ended.

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39 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

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18 The splendor of his forests(A) and fertile fields
    it will completely destroy,(B)
    as when a sick person wastes away.
19 And the remaining trees of his forests(C) will be so few(D)
    that a child could write them down.

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18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.

19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

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18 Surely wickedness burns like a fire;(A)
    it consumes briers and thorns,(B)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,(C)
    so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

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18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

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Psalm 135(A)

Praise the Lord.[a]

Praise the name of the Lord;
    praise him, you servants(B) of the Lord,
you who minister in the house(C) of the Lord,
    in the courts(D) of the house of our God.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 135:1 Hebrew Hallelu Yah; also in verses 3 and 21

135 Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the name of the Lord; praise him, O ye servants of the Lord.

Ye that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

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Psalm 134

A song of ascents.

Praise the Lord, all you servants(A) of the Lord
    who minister(B) by night(C) in the house of the Lord.
Lift up your hands(D) in the sanctuary(E)
    and praise the Lord.(F)

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134 Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.

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I have seen you in the sanctuary(A)
    and beheld your power and your glory.(B)

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To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

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