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A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
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As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.
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For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous, so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
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Do good, LORD, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.
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But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
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