Bring my soul out of prison,
That I may (A)praise Your name;
The righteous shall surround me,
For You shall deal bountifully with me.”

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11 (A)Revive me, O Lord, for Your name’s sake!
For Your righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.

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(A)Who executes justice for the oppressed,
(B)Who gives food to the hungry.
(C)The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners.

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I will sing to the Lord,
Because He has dealt bountifully with me.

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24 (A)whom God raised up, having [a]loosed the [b]pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

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  1. Acts 2:24 destroyed or abolished
  2. Acts 2:24 Lit. birth pangs

ג GIMEL

17 (A)Deal bountifully with Your servant,
That I may live and keep Your word.

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14 That I may tell of all Your praise
In the gates of [a]the daughter of Zion.
I will (A)rejoice in Your salvation.

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  1. Psalm 9:14 Jerusalem

Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
(A)Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies;
(B)Rise up [a]for me to the judgment You have commanded!
So the congregation of the peoples shall surround You;
For their sakes, therefore, return on high.

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  1. Psalm 7:6 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX O Lord my God

11 Indeed (A)we count them blessed who (B)endure. You have heard of (C)the perseverance of Job and seen (D)the end intended by the Lord—that (E)the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

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The Good News of Salvation

61 “The (A)Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord (B)has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me (C)to [a]heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim (D)liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

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  1. Isaiah 61:1 Lit. bind up

A Plea for Relief from Persecutors

A (A)Contemplation[a] of David. A Prayer (B)when he was in the cave.

142 I cry out to the Lord with my voice;
With my voice to the Lord I make my supplication.

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  1. Psalm 142:1 Heb. Maschil

74 (A)Those who fear You will be glad when they see me,
Because I have hoped in Your word.

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Return to your (A)rest, O my soul,
For (B)the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

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41 (A)Yet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction,
And (B)makes their families like a flock.
42 (C)The righteous see it and rejoice,
And all (D)iniquity stops its mouth.

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I am counted with those who (A)go[a] down to the pit;
(B)I am like a man who has no strength,
[b]Adrift among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And who are cut off from Your hand.

You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In darkness, in the depths.
Your wrath lies heavy upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all (C)Your waves. Selah
(D)You have [c]put away my acquaintances far from me;
You have made me an abomination to them;
(E)I am shut up, and I cannot get out;

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  1. Psalm 88:4 Die
  2. Psalm 88:5 Lit. Free
  3. Psalm 88:8 taken away my friends

My soul shall make its boast in the Lord;
The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

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And have not (A)shut[a] me up into the hand of the enemy;
(B)You have set my feet in a wide place.

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  1. Psalm 31:8 given me over

21 (A)Save Me from the lion’s mouth
And from the horns of the wild oxen!

(B)You have answered Me.

22 (C)I will declare Your name to (D)My brethren;
In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
23 (E)You who fear the Lord, praise Him!
All you [a]descendants of Jacob, glorify Him,
And fear Him, all you offspring of Israel!
24 For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from Him;
But (F)when He cried to Him, He heard.

25 (G)My praise shall be of You in the great assembly;
(H)I will pay My vows before those who fear Him.
26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
Those who seek Him will praise the Lord.
Let your heart live forever!

27 All the ends of the world
Shall remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the [b]nations
Shall worship before [c]You.

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  1. Psalm 22:23 Lit. seed
  2. Psalm 22:27 Gentiles
  3. Psalm 22:27 So with MT, LXX, Tg.; Arab., Syr., Vg. Him

When my enemies turn back,
They shall fall and perish at Your presence.

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