Jehovah to my words give ear, My meditation weign

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Jehovah to my words give ear, My meditation weigh,

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My king, my God, my cry's voice hear, For I to thee will pray.

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Thou in the morn my voice shalt hear, Lord in the morning I Will unto thee direct my prayer, And will look up on high.

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For thou art not a God that will In wickedness delight, Nor shall with thee dwell any ill,

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Nor fools stand in thy fight: Craftsmen of sin thou hat'st all them, Thou shalt them 'stroy that lies:

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The Lord will oath the bloody man, The them that guile devise.

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But I will to thy house draw near In thine abundant grace; And I will worship in thy fear Towards thy holy place.

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Conduct me in thy righteousness By reason of my spies: O Lord, thy ways most strait express Also before mine eyes.

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For in their mouth no faith they have, Their inward part is wrong: Their throat is as an open grave, They flatter with their tongue.

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O God, make thou them wholly waste, Them from their plots let fall: Out in their heaps of sin them cast, For 'gainst thee fret they all.

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But let all joy that trust in thee, Shout ever let the same, For thou defend'st them: glad let be In thee that love thy name.

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For thou, Lord, wilt thy blessing yield Unto the righteous one: And wilt him crown, as with a shield, With acceptation.