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My heart was lifted up in the love of the Most High and was enlarged: that I might praise Him for His name's sake.
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My members were strengthened that they might not fall from His strength.
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Sicknesses removed from my body, and it stood to the Lord by His will. For His kingdom is true.
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O Lord, for the sake of them that are deficient do not remove thy word from me!
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Neither for the sake of their works do thou restrain from me thy perfection!
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Let not the luminary be conquered by the darkness; nor let truth flee away from falsehood.
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Thou wilt appoint me to victory; our Salvation is thy right hand. And thou wilt receive men from all quarters.
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And thou wilt preserve whosoever is held in evils:
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Thou art my God. Falsehood and death are not in thy mouth:
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For thy will is perfection; and vanity thou knowest not,
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Nor does it know thee.
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And error thou knowest not,
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Neither does it know thee.
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And ignorance appeared like a blind man; and like the foam of the sea,
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And they supposed of that vain thing that it was something great;
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And they too came in likeness of it and became vain; and those have understood who have known and meditated;
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And they have not been corrupt in their imagination; for such were in the mind of the Lord;
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And they mocked at them that were walking in error;
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And they spake truth from the inspiration which the Most High breathed into them; Praise and great comeliness to His name Hallelujah.
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