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<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday 25 February 2009<span style="mso-spacerun:
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<p class="MsoNormal">DAILY LECTIONARY</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Email Evangelism, forward to a friend: http://www.dailylectionary.org</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jonah 3:1-4:11</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, ‘Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’ So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, ‘Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!’ And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: ‘By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water. Human beings and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands. Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But this was very displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry. He prayed to the Lord and said, ‘O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and ready to relent from punishing. And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.’ And the Lord said, ‘Is it right for you to be angry?’ Then Jonah went out of the city and sat down east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, waiting to see what would become of the city.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The Lord God appointed a bush,* and made it come up over Jonah, to give shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort; so Jonah was very happy about the bush. But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so that it withered. When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, ‘It is better for me to die than to live.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But God said to Jonah, ‘Is it right for you to be angry about the bush?’ And he said, ‘Yes, angry enough to die.’ Then the Lord said, ‘You are concerned about the bush, for which you did not labour and which you did not grow; it came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hebrews 12:1-14</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely,* and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of* the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners,* so that you may not grow weary or lose heart. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children—</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>or lose heart when you are punished by him;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and chastises every child whom he accepts.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline? If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children. Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share his holiness. Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. ******************************************************************</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Luke 18:9-14</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: ‘Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax-collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, “God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector. I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income.” But the tax-collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other; for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.’<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Morning Psalms: Psalm 95, 32, 143</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 95</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">O come, let us sing to the Lord;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the Lord is a great God,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and a great King above all gods.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In his hand are the depths of the earth;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the heights of the mountains are his also.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The sea is his, for he made it,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and the dry land, which his hands have formed.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">O come, let us worship and bow down,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For he is our God,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and we are the people of his pasture,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and the sheep of his hand.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">O that today you would listen to his voice!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">when your ancestors tested me,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For forty years I loathed that generation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and they do not regard my ways.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Therefore in my anger I swore,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘They shall not enter my rest.’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 32</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>whose sin is covered.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and in whose spirit there is no deceit.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">While I kept silence, my body wasted away</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>through my groaning all day long.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>my strength was dried up* as by the heat of summer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then I acknowledged my sin to you,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and I did not hide my iniquity;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord’,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and you forgave the guilt of my sin.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Therefore let all who are faithful</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>offer prayer to you;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">at a time of distress,* the rush of mighty waters</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>shall not reach them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You are a hiding-place for me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you preserve me from trouble;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you surround me with glad cries of deliverance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I will counsel you with my eye upon you.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Do not be like a horse or a mule, without understanding,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>else it will not stay near you.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many are the torments of the wicked,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>but steadfast love surrounds those who trust in the Lord.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and shout for joy, all you upright in heart.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 143</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hear my prayer, O Lord;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>answer me in your righteousness.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Do not enter into judgement with your servant,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for no one living is righteous before you.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For the enemy has pursued me,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>crushing my life to the ground,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>making me sit in darkness like those long dead.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Therefore my spirit faints within me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>my heart within me is appalled.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I remember the days of old,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I think about all your deeds,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I meditate on the works of your hands.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I stretch out my hands to you;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Answer me quickly, O Lord;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>my spirit fails.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Do not hide your face from me,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for in you I put my trust.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Teach me the way I should go,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for to you I lift up my soul.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Save me, O Lord, from my enemies;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I have fled to you for refuge.*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Teach me to do your will,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for you are my God.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let your good spirit lead me</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>on a level path.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For your name’s sake, O Lord, preserve my life.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In your righteousness bring me out of trouble.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In your steadfast love cut off my enemies,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and destroy all my adversaries,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for I am your servant.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Evening Psalms: Psalm 102, 130</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 102</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hear my prayer, O Lord;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>let my cry come to you.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Do not hide your face from me</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>on the day of my distress.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Incline your ear to me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>answer me speedily on the day when I call.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For my days pass away like smoke,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and my bones burn like a furnace.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My heart is stricken and withered like grass;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am too wasted to eat my bread.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because of my loud groaning</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>my bones cling to my skin.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am like an owl of the wilderness,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>like a little owl of the waste places.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I lie awake;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All day long my enemies taunt me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>those who deride me use my name for a curse.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For I eat ashes like bread,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and mingle tears with my drink,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">because of your indignation and anger;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My days are like an evening shadow;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I wither away like grass.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But you, O Lord, are enthroned for ever;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>your name endures to all generations.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for it is time to favour it;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the appointed time has come.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For your servants hold its stones dear,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and have pity on its dust.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The nations will fear the name of the Lord,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and all the kings of the earth your glory.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the Lord will build up Zion;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>he will appear in his glory.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He will regard the prayer of the destitute,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and will not despise their prayer.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let this be recorded for a generation to come,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that he looked down from his holy height,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to hear the groans of the prisoners,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to set free those who were doomed to die;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so that the name of the Lord may be declared in Zion,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and his praise in Jerusalem,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">when peoples gather together,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and kingdoms, to worship the Lord.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">He has broken my strength in mid-course;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>he has shortened my days.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘O my God,’ I say, ‘do not take me away</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>at the mid-point of my life,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">you whose years endure</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>throughout all generations.’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and the heavens are the work of your hands.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They will perish, but you endure;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>they will all wear out like a garment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You change them like clothing, and they pass away;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>but you are the same, and your years have no end.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The children of your servants shall live secure;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>their offspring shall be established in your presence.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 130</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lord, hear my voice!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let your ears be attentive</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to the voice of my supplications!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Lord, who could stand?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But there is forgiveness with you,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>so that you may be revered.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and in his word I hope;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">my soul waits for the Lord</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>more than those who watch for the morning,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>more than those who watch for the morning.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">O Israel, hope in the Lord!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For with the Lord there is steadfast love,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and with him is great power to redeem.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is he who will redeem Israel</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>from all its iniquities.</p>
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