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For you are God, my only safe haven.
    Why have you tossed me aside?
Why must I wander around in grief,
    oppressed by my enemies?

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You are God my stronghold.
    Why have you rejected(A) me?
Why must I go about mourning,(B)
    oppressed by the enemy?(C)

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“O God my rock,” I cry,
    “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I wander around in grief,
    oppressed by my enemies?”

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I say to God my Rock,(A)
    “Why have you forgotten(B) me?
Why must I go about mourning,(C)
    oppressed(D) by the enemy?”(E)

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The Lord is my strength and shield.
    I trust him with all my heart.
He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy.
    I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.

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The Lord is my strength(A) and my shield;
    my heart trusts(B) in him, and he helps me.
My heart leaps for joy,(C)
    and with my song I praise him.(D)

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The Whole Armor of God

10 A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

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The Armor of God

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord(A) and in his mighty power.(B)

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31 But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.
    They will soar high on wings like eagles.
They will run and not grow weary.
    They will walk and not faint.

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31 but those who hope(A) in the Lord
    will renew their strength.(B)
They will soar on wings like eagles;(C)
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.(D)

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14 The Lord will not reject his people;
    he will not abandon his special possession.

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14 For the Lord will not reject his people;(A)
    he will never forsake his inheritance.

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But now you have tossed us aside in dishonor.
    You no longer lead our armies to battle.

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But now you have rejected(A) and humbled us;(B)
    you no longer go out with our armies.(C)

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12 By my power[a] I will make my people strong,
    and by my authority they will go wherever they wish.
    I, the Lord, have spoken!”

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Footnotes

  1. 10:12 Hebrew In the Lord.

12 I will strengthen(A) them in the Lord
    and in his name they will live securely,(B)
declares the Lord.

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24 The people will declare,
    “The Lord is the source of all my righteousness and strength.”
And all who were angry with him
    will come to him and be ashamed.

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24 They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone
    are deliverance(A) and strength.(B)’”
All who have raged against him
    will come to him and be put to shame.(C)

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O Sovereign Lord, the strong one who rescued me,
    you protected me on the day of battle.

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Sovereign Lord,(A) my strong deliverer,
    you shield my head in the day of battle.

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Has the Lord rejected me forever?
    Will he never again be kind to me?

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“Will the Lord reject forever?(A)
    Will he never show his favor(B) again?

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And now, in my old age, don’t set me aside.
    Don’t abandon me when my strength is failing.

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Do not cast(A) me away when I am old;(B)
    do not forsake(C) me when my strength is gone.

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“And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and a willing mind. For the Lord sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.

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“And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion(A) and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart(B) and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him,(C) he will be found by you; but if you forsake(D) him, he will reject(E) you forever.

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