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But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.

Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.

Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.

Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.

But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.

The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.