Joy Comes with the Morning

A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of (A)the temple.

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

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

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19 (A)Let not those rejoice over me
    who are (B)wrongfully my foes,
and let not those (C)wink the eye
    who (D)hate me (E)without cause.

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37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, (A)praise and extol and honor the (B)King of heaven, (C)for all his works are right and his ways are just; and (D)those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

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(A)Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked;
    do not further their[a] evil plot, or (B)they will be exalted! Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 140:8 Hebrew his

Oh, save your people and bless (A)your heritage!
    (B)Be their shepherd and (C)carry them forever.

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(A)lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,”
    lest my foes rejoice because I am (B)shaken.

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25 And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. (A)So the Lord responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.

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20 And 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, (A)uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the (B)vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

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

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

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Great Is the Lord

[a] A Song of Praise. Of David.

145 (A)I will extol you, my God and (B)King,
    and bless your name forever and ever.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 145:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem, each verse beginning with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet

41 (A)All who pass by plunder him;
    he has become (B)the scorn of his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
    you have made all his enemies rejoice.
43 You have also turned back the edge of his sword,
    and you have not made him stand in battle.
44 You have made his splendor to cease
    and cast his throne to the ground.
45 You have cut short (C)the days of his youth;
    you have (D)covered him with shame. Selah

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

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

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11 By this I know that (A)you delight in me:
    my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.

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24 (A)Vindicate me, O Lord, my God,
    according to your righteousness,
    and (B)let them not rejoice over me!
25 Let them not say in their hearts,
    (C)“Aha, our heart's desire!”
Let them not say, (D)“We have swallowed him up.”

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

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

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

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

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And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took (A)the ten concubines whom he had left to care for 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.

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

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Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.

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

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17 I cried to him with my mouth,
    and high praise was on[a] my tongue.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 66:17 Hebrew under
  2. Psalm 66:17 Or and he was exalted with my tongue

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