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Thanksgiving for Deliverance[/TD]
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2 Sam. 22.1-51 [/TD]
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[TD="align: center"][SIZE=-1]To the chief Musician,
A Psalm of David, the servant of the L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE], who spake unto the L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE] the words of this song in the day
that the L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE] delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,[/SIZE][/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] I will love thee, O L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE], my strength.
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[TD="width: 95%"] The L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE]
is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
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[TD] my God, my strength, in whom I will trust;[/TD]
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[TD] my buckler, and the horn of my salvation,
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[TD="width: 95%"] I will call upon the L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE],
who is worthy to be praised:
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[TD] so shall I be saved from mine enemies.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] The sorrows of death compassed me,
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[TD] and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] The sorrows of hell compassed me about:
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[TD] the snares of death prevented me.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] In my distress I called upon the L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE],
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[TD] and cried unto my God:[/TD]
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[TD] and my cry came before him,
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[TD="width: 95%"] Then the earth shook and trembled;
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[TD] the foundations also of the hills moved[/TD]
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[TD] and were shaken, because he was wroth.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
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[TD="width: 95%"] He bowed the heavens also, and came down:
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[TD="width: 95%"] And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
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[TD="width: 95%"] He made darkness his secret place;
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[TD] his pavilion round about him
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[TD="width: 95%"] At the brightness
that was before him his thick clouds passed,
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[TD="width: 95%"] The L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE] also thundered in the heavens,
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[TD] and the Highest gave his voice;[/TD]
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[TD] hail
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[TD="width: 95%"] Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
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[TD] and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] Then the channels of waters were seen,
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[TD] at thy rebuke, O L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE],[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] He sent from above, he took me,
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[TD] he drew me out of many waters.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] He delivered me from my strong enemy,
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[TD] for they were too strong for me.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] They prevented me in the day of my calamity:
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[TD] but the L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE] was my stay.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] He brought me forth also into a large place;
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[TD] he delivered me, because he delighted in me.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] The L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE] rewarded me according to my righteousness;
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[TD] according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] For I have kept the ways of the L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE],
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[TD] and have not wickedly departed from my God.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] For all his judgments
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[TD] and I did not put away his statutes from me.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] I was also upright before him,
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[TD="width: 95%"] Therefore hath the L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE] recompensed me according to my righteousness,
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[TD="width: 95%"] With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;
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[TD] with an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright;[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] with the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;
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[TD] and with the froward thou wilt show thyself froward.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] For thou wilt save the afflicted people;
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[TD="width: 95%"] For thou wilt light my candle:
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[TD] the L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE] my God will enlighten my darkness.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] For by thee I have run through a troop;
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As for God, his way
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[TD="width: 95%"] For who
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It is God that girdeth me with strength,
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33 [/TD]
[TD="width: 95%"] He maketh my feet like hinds'
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[TD] and setteth me upon my high places.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] He teacheth my hands to war,
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[TD="width: 95%"] Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation:
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[TD="width: 95%"] Thou hast enlarged my steps under me,
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[TD="width: 95%"] I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them:
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[TD="width: 95%"] I have wounded them that they were not able to rise:
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[TD] they are fallen under my feet.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:
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[TD] thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 95%"] Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies;
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[TD="width: 95%"] They cried, but
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[TD="width: 95%"] Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind:
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[TD="width: 95%"] Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people;
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[TD="width: 95%"] The strangers shall fade away,
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[TD="width: 95%"] The L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE] liveth; and blessed
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[TD] and let the God of my salvation be exalted.[/TD]
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It is God that avengeth me,
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[TD="width: 95%"] Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O L[SIZE=-1]ORD[/SIZE], among the heathen,
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