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To Thy name and to Thy memorial is the desire of our soul.

⁹With my soul have I desired Thee in the night;

Yea, with my spirit within me have I sought Thee earnestly;

For when Thy judgments are in the earth,

The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

¹⁰Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness;

In the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully,

And will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

 

¹¹Lord, Thy hand was lifted up, yet they see not;

They shall see with shame Thy zeal for the people;

Yea, fire shall devour Thine adversaries.

¹²Lord, Thou wilt establish peace for us;

For Thou hast indeed wrought all our works for us.

¹³O Lord our God, other lords beside Thee have had dominion over us;

But by Thee only do we make mention of Thy name.

¹⁴The dead live not, the shades rise not;

To that end hast Thou punished and destroyed them,

And made all their memory to perish.

¹⁵Thou hast gotten Thee honour with the nations, O Lord,

Yea, exceeding great honour with the nations;

Thou art honoured unto the farthest ends of the earth.

 

¹⁶Lord, in trouble have they sought Thee,

Silently they poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them.

¹⁷Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery,

Is in pain and crieth out in her pangs;

So have we been at Thy presence, O Lord.

¹⁸We have been with child, we have been in pain,

We have as it were brought forth wind;

We have not wrought any deliverance in the land;

Neither are the inhabitants of the world come to life.

¹⁹Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise—

Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust—

For Thy dew is as the dew of light,

And the earth shall bring to life the shades.

 

²⁰Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers,

And shut thy doors about thee;

Hide thyself for a little moment,

Until the indignation be overpast.

²¹For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of His place

To visit upon the inhabitants of the earth their iniquity;

The earth also shall disclose her blood,

And shall no more cover her slain.

27In that day the Lord with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

²In that day sing ye of her:

'A vineyard of foaming wine!'

³I the Lord do guard it,

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