| Chapter 113 |
1 | When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people:
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2 | Judea made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
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3 | The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.
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4 | The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.
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5 | What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?
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6 | Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?
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7 | At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence of the God of Jacob:
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8 | Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters.
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9 | Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.
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10 | For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the gentiles should say: Where is their God?
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11 | But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would.
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12 | The idols of the gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men.
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13 | They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.
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14 | They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not.
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15 | They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat.
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16 | Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.
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17 | The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.
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18 | The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.
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19 | They that fear the Lord hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.
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20 | The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron.
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21 | He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great.
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22 | May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children.
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23 | Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
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24 | The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men.
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25 | The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.
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26 | But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever.
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