Psalm 124:6
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6 Blessed be the Lord,
who has not given us
as prey to their teeth.(A)
Exodus 15:9-10
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9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue; I will overtake;
I will divide the spoil; my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’(A)
10 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them;
they sank like lead in the mighty waters.(B)
Isaiah 10:14-19
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14 My hand has found, like a nest,
the wealth of the peoples,
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
so I have gathered all the earth,
and there was none that moved a wing
or opened its mouth or chirped.”(A)
15 Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it
or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it?
As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up,
or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!(B)
16 Therefore the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,
will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors,
and under his glory a burning will be kindled
like the burning of fire.(C)
17 The light of Israel will become a fire
and his Holy One a flame,
and it will burn and devour
his thorns and briers in one day.(D)
18 The glory of his forest and his fruitful land
the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when an invalid wastes away.(E)
19 The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few
that a child can write them down.(F)
Psalm 145:5-6
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5 They will recount the glorious[a] splendor of your majesty,
and on your wondrous works I will meditate.(A)
6 They will proclaim the might of your awesome deeds,
and I will declare your greatness.(B)
Footnotes
- 145.5 Q ms Gk Vg: MT On the glorious
Psalm 118:13
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Footnotes
- 118.13 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb You pushed me hard
Psalm 17:9
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9 from the wicked who despoil me,
my deadly enemies who surround me.
1 Samuel 26:20
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20 Now therefore, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea, like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”(A)
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Judges 5:30-31
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30 ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?
A woman or two for every man;
spoil of dyed stuffs for Sisera,
spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered,
two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?’(A)
31 So perish all your enemies, O Lord!
But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.”
And the land had rest forty years.(B)
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