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Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.
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Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
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Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
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they all come intent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.
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Then they sweep past like the wind and go on— guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”
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You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
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The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is glad.
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Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without mercy?
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“See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness—
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indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples.
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Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
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You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed! The cup from the Lord’s right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
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“Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman? Or an image that teaches lies? For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
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Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’ Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’ Can it give guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it.”
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The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.
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God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth.
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His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden.
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Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.
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The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
