Chapter 63

God is rightly praised in Sion and Jerusalem (in his Church only) for his benefits bestowed and promised, 8. unto which also in the time of grace all nations shall be called.

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   Unto the end, a Psalm of David.

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   Hear o God my prayer when I make petition: from the fear of my enemy deliver my soul.

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   Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant: from the multitude of them that work iniquity.

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   Because they have sharpened their tongues as a sword: they have bent the bow a bitter thing,

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   that they may shoot in secrets at the immaculate.

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   Suddenly they will shoot at him, and will not fear: they have confirmed to themselves a wicked word. They have talked to hide snares: they have said, Who shall see them?

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   They have searched iniquities: they have failed searching with scrutiny.

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   Man shall come to a deep heart: and God shall be exalted. Children's arrows are made their wounds:

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   and their tongues are weakened against them. All that saw them were troubled:

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    and every man feared. And they shewed forth the works of God: and they understood his doings.

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    The just shall rejoice in our Lord, and shall hope in him, & all the right of heart shall be praised.