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Psalms
  1. 78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
  2. 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
  3. 78:59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
  4. 78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
  5. 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
  6. 81:4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
  7. 87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
  8. 87:5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
  9. 87:6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
  10. 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
  11. 97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
  12. 105:17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
  13. 105:18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
  14. 105:37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
  15. 105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
  16. 106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
  17. 106:11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
  18. 106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
  19. 106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
  20. 106:31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
  21. 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
  22. 106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
  23. 107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
  24. 114:2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
  25. 114:3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
  26. 116:6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
  27. 116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
  28. 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
  29. 119:158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
  30. 122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
  31. 124:1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
  32. 124:2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
  33. 124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
  34. 126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
  35. 139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
  36. 139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
  37. 142:1 Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
  38. 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
  39. 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

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