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He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

“ ‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!

Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

In that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city. God appoints salvation for walls and bulwarks.

The young lions have roared at him and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

For Yahweh says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon. Yet surely I will make you a wilderness, cities which are not inhabited.

For a nation comes up out of the north against her, which will make her land desolate, and no one will dwell in it. They have fled. They are gone, both man and animal.

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.