Praise be to the Lord,
    who has not let us be torn by their teeth.

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The enemy boasted,
    ‘I will pursue,(A) I will overtake them.
I will divide the spoils;(B)
    I will gorge myself on them.
I will draw my sword
    and my hand will destroy them.’
10 But you blew with your breath,(C)
    and the sea covered them.
They sank like lead
    in the mighty waters.(D)

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14 As one reaches into a nest,(A)
    so my hand reached for the wealth(B) of the nations;
as people gather abandoned eggs,
    so I gathered all the countries;(C)
not one flapped a wing,
    or opened its mouth to chirp.(D)’”

15 Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,
    or the saw boast against the one who uses it?(E)
As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,
    or a club(F) brandish the one who is not wood!
16 Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    will send a wasting disease(G) upon his sturdy warriors;(H)
under his pomp(I) a fire(J) will be kindled
    like a blazing flame.
17 The Light of Israel will become a fire,(K)
    their Holy One(L) a flame;
in a single day it will burn and consume
    his thorns(M) and his briers.(N)
18 The splendor of his forests(O) and fertile fields
    it will completely destroy,(P)
    as when a sick person wastes away.
19 And the remaining trees of his forests(Q) will be so few(R)
    that a child could write them down.

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They speak of the glorious splendor(A) of your majesty—
    and I will meditate on your wonderful works.[a](B)
They tell(C) of the power of your awesome works—(D)
    and I will proclaim(E) your great deeds.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 145:5 Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text On the glorious splendor of your majesty / and on your wonderful works I will meditate

13 I was pushed back and about to fall,
    but the Lord helped me.(A)

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from the wicked who are out to destroy me,
    from my mortal enemies who surround me.(A)

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20 Now do not let my blood(A) fall to the ground far from the presence of the Lord. The king of Israel has come out to look for a flea(B)—as one hunts a partridge in the mountains.(C)

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30 ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoils:(A)
    a woman or two for each man,
colorful garments as plunder for Sisera,
    colorful garments embroidered,
highly embroidered garments(B) for my neck—
    all this as plunder?(C)

31 “So may all your enemies perish,(D) Lord!
    But may all who love you be like the sun(E)
    when it rises in its strength.”(F)

Then the land had peace(G) forty years.

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