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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1At that time, people will sing this song in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; God crafts victory, its walls and ramparts. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Open your gates, so the righteous nation that safeguards its faith may enter. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You will keep perfectly peaceful the one whose mind remains focused on you, because he remains in you. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Trust in the LORD forever, for in the LORD GOD you have an everlasting rock. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For he has made drunk the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low to the ground casting it down to the dust, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6by the feet of the oppressed who trample it, by the footsteps of the needy. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"The path of the righteous is level; O Upright One, you make safe the way of justice. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Yes, LORD, in the path of your judgments we wait; your name and your Law are the soul's desire. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me searches for you. For when your judgments come upon the earth, the world's inhabitants learn righteousness. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10If favor is shown to the wicked, they don't learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they act perversely and do not perceive the majesty of the LORD. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"LORD, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. And let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame— yes, let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12LORD, you will decide peace for us, for you have indeed accomplished all our achievements for us. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13O LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but through you alone we acknowledge your name. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The dead won't live, and the departed spirits won't rise— to that end, you punished and destroyed them, then locked away all memory of them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"But you have enlarged the nation, LORD; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained honor; you have extended all the borders of the land. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16LORD, they came to you in distress; they poured out their secret prayer when your chastenings were afflicting them. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Just as a pregnant woman writhes and cries out during her labor when she is about to give birth, so were we because of you, LORD. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18We were pregnant, writhing in pain, but we gave birth only to wind. We have not won your victory on earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world been born." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Those who live in the dust will wake up and shout for joy! For your dew is like the dew of dawn, and the earth will give birth to the dead. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Come, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For see, the LORD is coming from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sins; the earth will reveal the blood that has been shed on it, and will no longer conceal its slain." |
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