The Blessedness of Answered Prayer

A Psalm. A Song (A)at the dedication of the house of David.

30 I will extol You, O Lord, for You have (B)lifted me up,
And have not let my foes (C)rejoice over me.

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O my God, I (A)trust in You;
Let me not be ashamed;
(B)Let not my enemies triumph over me.

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19 (A)Let them not rejoice over me who are wrongfully my enemies;
Nor let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.

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37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, (A)praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, (B)all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. (C)And those who walk in pride He is able to put down.

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Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
Do not further his wicked scheme,
(A)Lest they be exalted. Selah

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Lest my enemy say,
“I have prevailed against him”;
Lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

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11 Then (A)Hiram (B)king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters and masons. And they built David a house.

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15 All who [a]pass by (A)clap their hands at you;
They hiss (B)and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
Is this the city that is called
(C)‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth’?”

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:15 Lit. pass by this way

A Song of God’s Majesty and Love

(A)A Praise of David.

145 I will [a]extol You, my God, O King;
And I will bless Your name forever and ever.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 145:1 praise

41 All who pass by the way (A)plunder him;
He is a reproach to his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.
43 You have also turned back the edge of his sword,
And have not sustained him in the battle.
44 You have made his [a]glory cease,
And cast his throne down to the ground.
45 The days of his youth You have shortened;
You have covered him with shame. Selah

46 How long, Lord?
Will You hide Yourself forever?
Will Your wrath burn like fire?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 89:44 splendor or brightness

10 (A)Why should the [a]nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let there be known among the nations in our sight
The avenging of the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 79:10 Gentiles

11 By this I know that You are well pleased with me,
Because my enemy does not triumph over me.

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Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
And let us exalt His name together.

I (A)sought the Lord, and He heard me,
And delivered me from all my fears.

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Save Your people,
And bless (A)Your inheritance;
Shepherd them also,
(B)And bear them up forever.

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And now (A)my head shall be [a]lifted up above my enemies all around me;
Therefore I will offer sacrifices of [b]joy in His tabernacle;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 27:6 Lifted up in honor
  2. Psalm 27:6 joyous shouts

(A)But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s [a]word was abominable to Joab.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:6 command

25 And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. (A)So the Lord heeded the prayers for the land, and (B)the plague was withdrawn from Israel.

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that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in (A)a house of cedar, (B)but the ark of God dwells inside tent (C)curtains.”

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20 (A)Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious was the king of Israel today, (B)uncovering himself today in the eyes of the maids of his servants, as one of the (C)base fellows [a]shamelessly uncovers himself!”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 6:20 openly

“Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying: ‘What man is there who has built a new house and has not (A)dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.

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We have become a reproach to our (A)neighbors,
A scorn and derision to those who are around us.

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17 I cried to Him with my mouth,
And He was [a]extolled with my tongue.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 66:17 praised

Now David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten women, (A)his concubines whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in seclusion and supported them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

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24 Vindicate me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness;
And let them not rejoice over me.
25 Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, so we would have it!”
Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

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