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Psalm 30

Thanksgiving for Recovery from Grave Illness

A Psalm. A Song at the dedication of the temple. Of David.

I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up
    and did not let my foes rejoice over me.(A)

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O my God, in you I trust;
    do not let me be put to shame;
    do not let my enemies exult over me.(A)

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19 Do not let my treacherous enemies rejoice over me
    or those who hate me without cause wink the eye.(A)

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37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven,

for all his works are truth,
    and his ways are justice;
he is able to bring low
    those who walk in pride.(A)

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Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
    do not further their evil plot.[a] Selah(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 140.8 Heb adds they are exalted

and my enemy will say, “I have prevailed”;
    my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.(A)

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11 King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees and carpenters and masons who built David a house.(A)

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15 All who pass along the way
    clap their hands at you;
they hiss and wag their heads
    at daughter Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
    the perfection of beauty,
    the joy of all the earth?”(A)

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Psalm 145

The Greatness and the Goodness of God

Praise. Of David.

I will extol you, my God and King,
    and bless your name forever and ever.

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41 All who pass by plunder him;
    he has become the scorn of his neighbors.(A)
42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
    you have made all his enemies rejoice.(B)
43 Moreover, you have turned back the edge of his sword,
    and you have not supported him in battle.(C)
44 You have removed the scepter from his hand[a]
    and hurled his throne to the ground.(D)
45 You have cut short the days of his youth;
    you have covered him with shame. Selah(E)

46 How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?
    How long will your wrath burn like fire?(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 89.44 Cn: Heb removed his cleanness

10 Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”
Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
    be known among the nations before our eyes.(A)

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11 By this I know that you are pleased with me:
    because my enemy has not triumphed over me.(A)

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O magnify the Lord with me,
    and let us exalt his name together.(A)

I sought the Lord, and he answered me
    and delivered me from all my fears.(B)

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O save your people and bless your heritage;
    be their shepherd and carry them forever.(A)

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Now my head is lifted up
    above my enemies all around me,
and I will offer in his tent
    sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make melody to the Lord.(A)

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But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, for the king’s command was abhorrent to Joab.(A)

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25 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and offerings of well-being. So the Lord answered his supplication for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.(A)

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the king said to the prophet Nathan, “See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God stays in a tent.”(A)

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20 David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants’ maids, as any vulgar fellow might shamelessly uncover himself!”(A)

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Then the officers shall address the troops, saying, ‘Has anyone built a new house but not dedicated it? He should go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another dedicate it.

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We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
    mocked and derided by those around us.(A)

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17 I cried aloud to him,
    and he was extolled with my tongue.

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David came to his house at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to look after the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.(A)

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24 Vindicate me, O Lord, my God,
    according to your righteousness,
    and do not let them rejoice over me.(A)
25 Do not let them say to themselves,
    “Aha, we have our heart’s desire.”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed you[a] up.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 35.25 Heb him