Thursday 5 March 2009<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><!--StartFragment-->
<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">Deuteronomy 9:23-10:5</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and occupy the land that I have given you’, you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God, neither trusting him nor obeying him. You have been rebellious against the Lord as long as he has* known you.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Throughout the forty days and forty nights that I lay prostrate before the Lord when the Lord intended to destroy you, I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘Lord God, do not destroy the people who are your very own possession, whom you redeemed in your greatness, whom you brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; pay no attention to the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin, otherwise the land from which you have brought us might say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to let them die in the wilderness.” For they are the people of your very own possession, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At that time the Lord said to me, ‘Carve out two tablets of stone like the former ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you smashed, and you shall put them in the ark.’ So I made an ark of acacia wood, cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. Then he wrote on the tablets the same words as before, the ten commandments* that the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them to me. So I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark that I had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hebrews 4:1-10</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For indeed the good news came to us just as to them; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.* For we who have believed enter that rest, just as God* has said,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘As in my anger I swore,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“They shall not enter my rest” ’,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">though his works were finished at the foundation of the world. For in one place it speaks about the seventh day as follows: ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.’ And again in this place it says, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’ Since therefore it remains open for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he sets a certain day—‘today’—saying through David much later, in the words already quoted,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Today, if you hear his voice,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">do not harden your hearts.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For if Joshua had given them rest, God* would not speak later about another day. So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; for those who enter God’s rest also cease from their labours as God did from his.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John 3:16-21</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.’* ******************************************************************</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Morning Psalms: Psalm 50</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 50</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The mighty one, God the Lord,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>speaks and summons the earth</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>from the rising of the sun to its setting.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>God shines forth.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our God comes and does not keep silence,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>before him is a devouring fire,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and a mighty tempest all around him.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He calls to the heavens above</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and to the earth, that he may judge his people:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Gather to me my faithful ones,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The heavens declare his righteousness,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for God himself is judge.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">‘Hear, O my people, and I will speak,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>O Israel, I will testify against you.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am God, your God.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>your burnt-offerings are continually before me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I will not accept a bull from your house,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>or goats from your folds.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For every wild animal of the forest is mine,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the cattle on a thousand hills.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I know all the birds of the air,*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and all that moves in the field is mine.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">‘If I were hungry, I would not tell you,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for the world and all that is in it is mine.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Do I eat the flesh of bulls,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>or drink the blood of goats?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and pay your vows to the Most High.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Call on me in the day of trouble;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But to the wicked God says:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘What right have you to recite my statutes,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>or take my covenant on your lips?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For you hate discipline,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and you cast my words behind you.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You make friends with a thief when you see one,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and you keep company with adulterers.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">‘You give your mouth free rein for evil,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and your tongue frames deceit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You sit and speak against your kin;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you slander your own mother’s child.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These things you have done and I have been silent;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you thought that I was one just like yourself.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">‘Mark this, then, you who forget God,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to deliver.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honour me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to those who go the right way*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I will show the salvation of God.’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Evening Psalms: Psalm 59, 60, 19, 46</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 59</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>protect me from those who rise up against me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deliver me from those who work evil;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>from the bloodthirsty save me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Even now they lie in wait for my life;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the mighty stir up strife against me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for no fault of mine, they run and make ready.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rouse yourself, come to my help and see!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You, Lord God of hosts, are God of Israel.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Awake to punish all the nations;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>spare none of those who treacherously plot evil.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Each evening they come back,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>howling like dogs</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and prowling about the city.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There they are, bellowing with their mouths,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>with sharp words* on their lips—</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for ‘Who’, they think,* ‘will hear us?’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But you laugh at them, O Lord;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you hold all the nations in derision.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">O my strength, I will watch for you;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for you, O God, are my fortress.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My God in his steadfast love will meet me;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Do not kill them, or my people may forget;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>make them totter by your power, and bring them down,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>O Lord, our shield.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>let them be trapped in their pride.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the cursing and lies that they utter,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>consume them in wrath;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>consume them until they are no more.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then it will be known to the ends of the earth</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>that God rules over Jacob.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Each evening they come back,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>howling like dogs</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and prowling about the city.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They roam about for food,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and growl if they do not get their fill.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But I will sing of your might;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For you have been a fortress for me</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and a refuge on the day of my distress.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">O my strength, I will sing praises to you,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for you, O God, are my fortress,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the God who shows me steadfast love.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 60</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">O God, you have rejected us, broken our defences;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you have been angry; now restore us!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You have caused the land to quake; you have torn it open;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You have made your people suffer hard things;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You have set up a banner for those who fear you,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to rally to it out of bowshot.*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Give victory with your right hand, and answer us,*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>so that those whom you love may be rescued.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">God has promised in his sanctuary:*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘With exultation I will divide up Shechem,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and portion out the Vale of Succoth.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ephraim is my helmet;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Judah is my sceptre.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Moab is my wash-basin;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>on Edom I hurl my shoe;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>over Philistia I shout in triumph.’</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Who will bring me to the fortified city?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Who will lead me to Edom?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Have you not rejected us, O God?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You do not go out, O God, with our armies.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">O grant us help against the foe,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for human help is worthless.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With God we shall do valiantly;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>it is he who will tread down our foes.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 19</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The heavens are telling the glory of God;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and the firmament* proclaims his handiwork.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Day to day pours forth speech,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and night to night declares knowledge.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is no speech, nor are there words;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>their voice is not heard;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">yet their voice* goes out through all the earth,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and their words to the end of the world.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the heavens* he has set a tent for the sun,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">which comes out like a bridegroom from his wedding canopy,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and like a strong man runs its course with joy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Its rising is from the end of the heavens,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and its circuit to the end of them;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and nothing is hidden from its heat.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The law of the Lord is perfect,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>reviving the soul;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the decrees of the Lord are sure,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>making wise the simple;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the precepts of the Lord are right,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>rejoicing the heart;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the commandment of the Lord is clear,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>enlightening the eyes;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the fear of the Lord is pure,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>enduring for ever;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the ordinances of the Lord are true</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and righteous altogether.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More to be desired are they than gold,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>even much fine gold;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">sweeter also than honey,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and drippings of the honeycomb.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Moreover by them is your servant warned;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>in keeping them there is great reward.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But who can detect their errors?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Clear me from hidden faults.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Keep back your servant also from the insolent;*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>do not let them have dominion over me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then I shall be blameless,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and innocent of great transgression.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>be acceptable to you,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Psalm 46</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">God is our refuge and strength,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>a very present* help in trouble.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">though its waters roar and foam,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>though the mountains tremble with its tumult.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the holy habitation of the Most High.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">God is in the midst of the city;* it shall not be moved;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>God will help it when the morning dawns.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>he utters his voice, the earth melts.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord of hosts is with us;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the God of Jacob is our refuge.*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Come, behold the works of the Lord;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>see what desolations he has brought on the earth.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>he burns the shields with fire.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Be still, and know that I am God!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am exalted among the nations,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I am exalted in the earth.’</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Lord of hosts is with us;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the God of Jacob is our refuge.*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Selah</p>
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