<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Verdana, sans-serif; ">Monday, October 18, 2010</span>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Eccliasticus 4:20-5:7</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Watch for the opportune time, and beware of evil,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and do not be ashamed to be yourself. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">For there is a shame that leads to sin,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and there is a shame that is glory and favour. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not show partiality, to your own harm,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> or deference, to your downfall. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not refrain from speaking at the proper moment,*</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and do not hide your wisdom.* </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">For wisdom becomes known through speech,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and education through the words of the tongue. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Never speak against the truth,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> but be ashamed of your ignorance. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not be ashamed to confess your sins,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and do not try to stop the current of a river. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not subject yourself to a fool,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> or show partiality to a ruler. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Fight to the death for truth,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and the Lord God will fight for you. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not be reckless in your speech,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> or sluggish and remiss in your deeds. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not be like a lion in your home,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> or suspicious of your servants. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not let your hand be stretched out to receive</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and closed when it is time to give. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not rely on your wealth,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> or say, ‘I have enough.’ </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not follow your inclination and strength</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> in pursuing the desires of your heart. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not say, ‘Who can have power over me?’</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for the Lord will surely punish you. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not say, ‘I sinned, yet what has happened to me?’</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for the Lord is slow to anger. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not be so confident of forgiveness*</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> that you add sin to sin. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do noAfter this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on earth or sea or against any tree. I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to damage earth and sea, saying, ‘Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have marked the servants* of our God with a seal on their foreheads.’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the people of Israel: 5From the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed,from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand,from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand, 6from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand,from the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand,from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand, 7from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand,from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand,from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand, 8from the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand,from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand,from the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand sealed.t say, ‘His mercy is great,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> he will forgive* the multitude of my sins’,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">for both mercy and wrath are with him,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and his anger will rest on sinners. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not delay to turn back to the Lord,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">for suddenly the wrath of the Lord will come upon you,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Revelation 7:1-8</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on earth or sea or against any tree. I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to damage earth and sea, saying, ‘Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have marked the servants* of our God with a seal on their foreheads.’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the people of Israel: 5From the tribe of Judah twelve thousand sealed,from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand,from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand, 6from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand,from the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand,from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand, 7from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand,from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand,from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand, 8from the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand,from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand,from the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand sealed.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Luke 9:51-62</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him. On their way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him; but they did not receive him, because his face was set towards Jerusalem. When his disciples James and John saw it, they said, ‘Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?’* But he turned and rebuked them. Then* they went on to another village.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> As they were going along the road, someone said to him, ‘I will follow you wherever you go.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’ To another he said, ‘Follow me.’ But he said, ‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’ But Jesus* said to him, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.’ Another said, ‘I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home.’ Jesus said to him, ‘No one who puts a hand to the plough and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Morning Psalms: Psalm 25</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Psalm 25</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">O my God, in you I trust;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> do not let me be put to shame;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> do not let my enemies exult over me. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Make me to know your ways, O Lord;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> teach me your paths. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Lead me in your truth, and teach me,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for you are the God of my salvation;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for you I wait all day long. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Be mindful of your mercy, O Lord, and of your steadfast love,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for they have been from of old. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> according to your steadfast love remember me,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for your goodness’ sake, O Lord! </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Good and upright is the Lord;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> therefore he instructs sinners in the way. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">He leads the humble in what is right,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and teaches the humble his way. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for those who keep his covenant and his decrees. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">For your name’s sake, O Lord,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> pardon my guilt, for it is great. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Who are they that fear the Lord?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> He will teach them the way that they should choose. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">They will abide in prosperity,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and their children shall possess the land. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and he makes his covenant known to them. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">My eyes are ever towards the Lord,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for he will pluck my feet out of the net. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Turn to me and be gracious to me,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for I am lonely and afflicted. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Relieve the troubles of my heart,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and bring me* out of my distress. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Consider my affliction and my trouble,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and forgive all my sins. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Consider how many are my foes,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and with what violent hatred they hate me. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">O guard my life, and deliver me;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">May integrity and uprightness preserve me,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for I wait for you. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Redeem Israel, O God,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> out of all its troubles.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Evening Psalms: Psalm 9, 15</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">I will be glad and exult in you;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">When my enemies turned back,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> they stumbled and perished before you. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">For you have maintained my just cause;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgement. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> you have blotted out their name for ever and ever. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> their cities you have rooted out;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> the very memory of them has perished. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">But the Lord sits enthroned for ever,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> he has established his throne for judgement. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">He judges the world with righteousness;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> he judges the peoples with equity. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> a stronghold in times of trouble. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">And those who know your name put their trust in you,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> Declare his deeds among the peoples. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> he does not forget the cry of the afflicted. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Be gracious to me, O Lord.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> See what I suffer from those who hate me;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death, </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">so that I may recount all your praises,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and, in the gates of daughter Zion,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> rejoice in your deliverance. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgement;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> Higgaion. Selah</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">The wicked shall depart to Sheol,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> all the nations that forget God. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">For the needy shall not always be forgotten,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> nor the hope of the poor perish for ever. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> let the nations be judged before you. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Put them in fear, O Lord;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> let the nations know that they are only human.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> Selah</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">O Lord, who may abide in your tent?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> Who may dwell on your holy hill? </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Those who walk blamelessly, and do what is right,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and speak the truth from their heart; </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">who do not slander with their tongue,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and do no evil to their friends,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> nor take up a reproach against their neighbours; </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">in whose eyes the wicked are despised,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> but who honour those who fear the Lord;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">who stand by their oath even to their hurt; </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">who do not lend money at interest,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> and do not take a bribe against the innocent. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman">Those who do these things shall never be moved.</p>
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