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but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.
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Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?
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He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows.
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The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God.
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His ways are always prosperous; your laws are rejected by him; he sneers at all his enemies.
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because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.
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All his laws are before me; I have not turned away from his decrees.
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The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.
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You, Lord, brought me up from the realm of the dead; you spared me from going down to the pit.
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I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery.
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Let me not be put to shame, Lord, for I have cried out to you; but let the wicked be put to shame and be silent in the realm of the dead.
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The law of their God is in their hearts; their feet do not slip.
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I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”
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But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead; he will surely take me to himself.
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But to the wicked person, God says: “What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
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Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the realm of the dead, for evil finds lodging among them.
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They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like deadly arrows.
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He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,
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they did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.
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They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.
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They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
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For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the dead.
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I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.
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Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you?
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“If his sons forsake my law and do not follow my statutes,
