- O give ye thanks unto the Lord,
- for gracious is he:
- Because his mercy doth endure
- forever towards thee.
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- 2 Let Israel confess and say,
- his mercy ‘dures for aye,
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- 3 Now let the house of Aaron say:
- his mercy ‘dures for aye.
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- 4 Let all that fear the Lord our God
- even now confess and say:
- The mercy of the Lord our God,
- endureth still for aye.
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- 5 In trouble and in heaviness
- unto the Lord I cried:
- Which lovingly heard me at large,
- my suite was not denied.
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- 6 The Lord himself is on my side:
- I will not stand in doubt,
- Nor fear what man can do to me,
- when God stands me about.
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- 7 The Lord doth take my part with them
- that help to succor me:
- Therefore I shall see my desire,
- upon mine enemy.
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- 8 Better it is to trust in God,
- then in man’s mortal seed:
- Or to put confidence in Kings,
- or princes in our need.
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- 9 All nations have enclosed me,
- and ‘compassed me round.
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- 10 But in the name of God shall I
- mine enemies confound.
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- 11 They kept me in on every side,
- they kept me in I say:
- But through the Lord’s most mighty name
- I shall work their decay.
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- 12 They came about me all like Bees,
- but yet in the Lord’s name
- I quenched the thorns that were on fire
- and will destroy the same.