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(1) To the leader [of the musicians]. Song of David. The God of my praise, do not be silent! (2) For the mouth of the evildoer, the deceitful mouth has been opened against me, and they speak to me with the tongue of lies. 3 They have surrounded me with words of hatred, they are fighting against me for no reason. 4 For my love they hate me, but I pray. (5) They have repaid me with evil for good, and with hatred for my love. 6 Set the villain over him,271 and let the accuser stand at his right hand. (7) When he is judged, he will come out guilty, his prayer will miss. 8 His days will be short, and his appointment will go to another. (9) His children will become orphans, and his wife a widow. (10) His sons will wander about and inquire about their ruins. (11) The lender will seize all that he has, and strangers will plunder his labor. (12) There will be no one who is well pleased with him, there will be no one who has compassion for his fatherless. 13 His descendants will be doomed to perish, and their name will be blotted out in the next generation. (14) The sin of his fathers will be remembered before God, and the sin of his mother will not be blotted out. (15) They will always be before God, and he will destroy the memory of them from the earth. (16) Because he did not remember to show mercy, he persecuted a poor and needy man, broken in heart, in order to put him to death. (17) If he loves a curse, it will come upon him, if he does not desire a blessing, it will depart from him. (18) He has clothed himself with a curse like a garment, and it will enter into him like water, and like oil into his bones. (19) It will be to him like the garment in which he wraps himself, like the girdle with which he always girds himself. (20) Such is the recompense for the deeds of those who persecute me from God, and who speak evil against my soul. (21) But you, O God my Lord, do with me for your name's sake, for your mercy is good, deliver me. (22) For I am poor and needy, and my heart is killed within me. (23) I walk like a deviating shadow, I drive away like locusts. (24) My knees are weary from fasting, and my body has lost its fat. (25) I have become a laughing stock to them: when they see me, they nod their heads. (26) Help me, O God, my Almighty, save me according to your mercy, (27) so that they may know that it is your hand, that you, God, have done it. (28) They will curse, but you will bless, they will rise up, but they will be ashamed, and your servant will rejoice. (29) My persecutors will clothe themselves with disgrace as with clothing, and they will be covered with their shame. (30) And I will thank God with my mouth without limit, glorifying Him in the midst of many. (31) For he stands at the right hand of the beggar to save (him) from those who judge his soul.

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(1) The Song of David[272]. God said to my lord: "Sit on my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool." (2) God will send the rod of your power from Zion: rule among your enemies. (3) Your people are volunteers. In the day of thy battle [they are ready] in the splendor of [thy] holiness from the coming out of [thy mother's] womb [274], like the dew of thy childhood. (4) God swore and would not think: "You are a priest forever according to the word of Malka-Tzedek" (275). (5) The Lord is at your right hand. In the day of His wrath He smites kings. (6) He executes judgment on the nations: [the earth] is full of corpses, he has broken his head over the great earth[276]. (7) He drinks from the stream on the way, therefore he lifts up his head" [277].

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(1) Praise God! I will thank God with all my heart in the counsel of the honest and in the assembly. (2) Great are the creatures of God—they are required by all who desire them. (3) Glory and splendor are His works, His justice shall endure for ever. (4) He has made a memory of His miracles, for God is generous and merciful. (5) He gave food to those who fear him, and he will remember his covenant for ever. (6) He communicated the power of his creatures to his people, that he might give them the inheritance of the nations. (7) The works of his hands are truth and justice, and all his commandments are true. (8) They are established for all eternity, they are built on truth and justice. (9) He has sent deliverance to His people, He has commanded His covenant for ever, and His name is holy and dreadful. (10) The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom: all those who do [His commandments] are wise. His glory will endure forever.

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(1) Praise God. Happy is the man who fears God and passionately loves His commandments. (2) His descendants will be the heroes on earth, an honest and blessed generation. (3) Abundance and riches are in his house, his righteousness will endure for ever. (4) The light of the honest will shine in the darkness – he is generous, and merciful, and righteous. (5) A good man is merciful, and a giver who does his business justly. (6) For he will never waver, for the righteous will remain in eternal memory. (7) He will not be afraid of bad news, for his heart is sure that he trusts in God. (8) His heart is firm, and he is not afraid, so that he sees his enemies (defeated). (9) He has squandered, he has given to the poor, his righteousness endures forever, and he will be exalted in glory. (10) If the evildoer sees it, he will become furious, gnash his teeth and faint. The lust of evildoers will perish.

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(1) Praise God! Praise, servants of God, praise the name of God! (2) Blessed be the name of God from now on and forever! (3) From sunrise to sunset, the name of God is glorified! (4) God is exalted above all nations, and his glory is above the heavens. (5) Who is like God, our Almighty, who dwells in the highs, (6) who lowers his gaze to heaven and earth? (7) He lifts up the poor man from the ground, he exalts the beggar from the dung, (8) to sit him down with the princes, with the princes of his people. (9) He makes the barren woman a mother in the house, and she rejoices in the children! Praise God!