The Lord is my strength(A) and my shield;
    my heart trusts(B) in him, and he helps me.
My heart leaps for joy,(C)
    and with my song I praise him.(D)

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The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

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11 You turned my wailing(A) into dancing;(B)
    you removed my sackcloth(C) and clothed me with joy,(D)

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11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

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Sing to him a new song;(A)
    play skillfully, and shout for joy.(B)

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Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

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27 May those who delight in my vindication(A)
    shout for joy(B) and gladness;
may they always say, “The Lord be exalted,
    who delights(C) in the well-being of his servant.”(D)

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27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

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These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:(A)
how I used to go to the house of God(B)
    under the protection of the Mighty One[a]
with shouts of joy(C) and praise(D)
    among the festive throng.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

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Then I will go(A) to the altar(B) of God,
    to God, my joy(C) and my delight.(D)
I will praise you with the lyre,(E)
    O God, my God.

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Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

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You love righteousness(A) and hate wickedness;(B)
    therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
    by anointing(C) you with the oil of joy.(D)

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Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

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15 Led in with joy and gladness,(A)
    they enter the palace of the king.

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15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

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Psalm 47[a]

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.

Clap your hands,(A) all you nations;
    shout to God with cries of joy.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 47:1 In Hebrew texts 47:1-9 is numbered 47:2-10.

47 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

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God has ascended(A) amid shouts of joy,(B)
    the Lord amid the sounding of trumpets.(C)

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God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

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Beautiful(A) in its loftiness,
    the joy of the whole earth,
like the heights of Zaphon[a](B) is Mount Zion,(C)
    the city of the Great King.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 48:2 Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

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Let me hear joy and gladness;(A)
    let the bones(B) you have crushed rejoice.

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Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

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12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation(A)
    and grant me a willing spirit,(B) to sustain me.(C)

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12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

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