- O God my heart prepared is,
- and eke my tongue is so:
- I will advance my voice in song,
- and giving praise also:
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- 2 Awake my voice and my harp
- sweet melody to make:
- And in the morning I myself,
- right early will awake.
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- 3 By me among the people (Lord)
- still praised shalt thou be:
- And I among the heathen folk,
- will sing (O Lord) to thee.
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- 4 Because thy mercy Lord is great
- above the heavens high:
- And eke thy truth doth reach the clouds
- within thy lofty sky.
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- 5 Above the starry heavens high,
- exalt thyself, O God:
- And Lord display upon the earth
- thy glory all abroad.
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- 6 That thy dearly beloved may
- be set at liberty:
- Help O my God with thy right hand,
- and hearken unto me.
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- 7 God in his holiness hath spoke:
- (whereof my joys abound.)
- Shechem I will divide, and mete
- the valley of Succoth ground.
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- 8 And Gilead shall be mine own,
- Manasseh mine shall be:
- My head-strength Ephraim, and Law
- shall Judah give for me,
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- 9 Moab my wash pot, and my shoe
- on Edom I will throw:
- Upon the land of Philistine,
- in triumph will I go.
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- 10 Who shall into the city strong
- be guide to conduct me?
- Or how by whom to Edom land,
- conveyed shall I be?
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- 11 It is not thou (O Lord) which late
- hadst us forsaken quite?
- And thou (O Lord) which with our host
- didst not go forth to fight:
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- 12 Give us (O Lord) thy saving aid,
- when troubles do assail:
- For all the help of man is vain,
- and can no whit avail.
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- 13 Through God we shall do valiant acts,
- and worthy of renown:
- He shall subdue our enemies,
- yea he shall read them down.
