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| 1 [[David's. An Instructive Psalm.]] How happy is he whose transgression is forgiven! whose sin is pardoned! |
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| 2 How happy the son of earth, to whom Yahweh will not reckon iniquity! and in whose spirit is no guile! |
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| 3 When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day; |
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| 4 For, day and night, heavy upon me, was thy hand,–Changed was my life-sap into the drought of summer. [Selah.] |
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| 5 My sin, would I own unto thee, and, mine iniquity, not hide, I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Yahweh, And, thou, didst forgive the iniquity of my sin. [Selah.] |
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| 6 For this cause, will every man of lovingkindness pray unto thee, in time to obtain,–Surely, in the overflow of many waters, unto him, shall they not reach. |
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| 7 Thou, art a hiding-place for me, From distress, wilt thou preserve me,–With shouts of deliverance, wilt thou compass me about. [Selah.] |
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| 8 I will make thee discreet, I will point out to thee the way which thou must go, I will fix upon thee mine eye. |
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| 9 Do not ye become like a horse, like a mule, without discernment,–With the bit and bridle of his mouth, [hast thou] to restrain him,–He will not come near unto thee. |
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| 10 Many pains, hath the lawless one,–But, he that trusteth in Yahweh, Lovingkindness, shall compass him about. |
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| 11 Rejoice in Yahweh and exult, O ye righteous, Yea, shout in triumph, all ye upright in heart! |
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