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them that hate me.
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They looked, but
there was
none to save;
even
unto the L
ORD
, but he answered
them not.
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Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of
the street,
and
did spread them abroad.
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Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my
people, thou hast kept me
to be
head of the heathen: a people
which
I knew not shall serve me.
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Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
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Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
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The L
ORD
liveth;
and blessed
be
my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
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It
is
God that avengeth
me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
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And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies:
thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me
from the violent man.
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Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O L
ORD
, among the heathen, and I
will sing praises unto thy name.
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He is
the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to
his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 23
Now these
be
the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man
who was
raised up
on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2
The Spirit of the
L
ORD
spake by me, and his word
was
in my tongue.
3
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel
spake to me, He that ruleth over men
must be
just, ruling in the fear of God.
4
And
he shall be
as
the light of the morning,
when
the sun riseth,
even
a morning without clouds;
as
the tender grass
springing
out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
5
Although my house
be
not so with God; yet
he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all
things,
and sure: for
this is
all my
salvation, and all
my
desire, although he make
it
not to grow.
6
But
the sons
of Belial
shall be
all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken
with hands:
7
But the man
that
shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear;
and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the
same
place.
8
These
be
the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat,
chief among the captains; the same
was
Adino the Eznite:
he lift up his spear
against eight hundred,
whom he slew at one time.
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And after him
was
Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite,
one
of the
three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines
that
were there gathered together
to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
10
He arose, and smote the Philistines until his
hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the L
ORD
wrought a great victory that day;
and the people returned after him only to spoil.
11
And after him
was
Shammah the son of Agee
the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground
full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
12
But he stood in the midst of the ground,
and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the L
ORD
wrought a great victory.
13
And three of the
thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the
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