You Keep Him in Perfect Peace
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In that day 1this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up 2salvation as walls and bulwarks.
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3Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
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4You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
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Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
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5For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.
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The path of the righteous is level; 8you make level the way of the righteous.
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In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; 9your name and 10remembrance are the desire of our soul.
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My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. 11For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
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12If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly and does not see the majesty of the LORD.
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O LORD, 13your hand is lifted up, but 14they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let 15the fire for your adversaries consume them.
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O LORD, you will ordain 16peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works.
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O LORD our God, 17other lords besides you have ruled over us, 18but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
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They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.
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19But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; 20you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
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O LORD, 21in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
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22Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O LORD;
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23we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
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24Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For 25your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
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Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves 26for a little while until the fury has passed by.
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)