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Psalms 17

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

17:1

For the end, [a Psalm] of David the servant of the Lord; [the words] which he spoke to the Lord, [even] the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: and he said:

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17:2

I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

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17:3

The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; [he is] my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.

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17:4

I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.

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17:5

The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

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17:6

The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

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17:7

And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, [even] into his ears.

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17:8

Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.

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17:9

There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.

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17:10

And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet.

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17:11

And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds.

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17:12

And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, [even] dark water in the clouds of the air.

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17:13

At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

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17:14

The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice.

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17:15

And he sent forth [his] weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.

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17:16

And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy wrath.

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17:17

He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters.

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17:18

He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I.

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17:19

They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: but the Lord was my stay against [them].

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17:20

And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me.

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17:21

And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.

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17:22

For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

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17:23

For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me.

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17:24

And I shall be blameless with him, and shall keep myself from mine iniquity.

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17:25

And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.

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17:26

With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.

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17:27

And with the excellent [man] thou wilt be excellent; and with the perverse thou wilt shew frowardness.

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17:28

For thou wilt save the lowly people, and wilt humble the eyes of the proud.

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17:29

For thou, O Lord, wilt light my lamp: my God, thou wilt lighten my darkness.

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17:30

For by thee shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall.

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17:31

[As for] my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him.

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17:32

For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God?

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17:33

[It is] God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless:

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17:34

who strengthens my feet as hart's feet, and sets me upon high places.

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17:35

He instructs my hands for war; and thou hast made my arms [as] a brazen bow.

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17:36

And thou hast made me secure in my salvation: and thy right hand has helped me, and thy correction has upheld me to the end; yea, thy correction itself shall instruct me.

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17:37

Thou hast made room for my goings under me, and my footsteps did not fail.

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17:38

I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed.

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17:39

I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.

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17:40

For thou hast girded me with strength for war: thou hast beaten down under me all that rose up against me.

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17:41

And thou hast made mine enemies turn their backs before me; and thou hast destroyed them that hated me.

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17:42

They cried, but there was no deliverer: [even] to the Lord, but he hearkened not to them.

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17:43

I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.

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17:44

Deliver me from the gainsayings of the people: thou shalt make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me,

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17:45

at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me.

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17:46

The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness.

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17:47

The Lord lives; and blessed [be] my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

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17:48

[It is] God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me;

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17:49

my deliverer from angry enemies: thou shalt set me on high above them that rise up against me: thou shalt deliver me from the unrighteous man.

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17:50

Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name.

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17:51

[God] magnifies the deliverances of his king; and deals mercifully with David his anointed, and his seed, for ever.

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