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7.
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As the impulse of anger against evil, so is the impulse of joy over what is lovely, and brings in of its fruits without restraint:
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7.
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My joy is the Lord and my impulse is toward Him: this path of mine is excellent:
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7.
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For I have a helper, the Lord.
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7.
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He hath caused me to know Himself, without grudging, by His simplicity: His kindness has humbled His greatness.
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7.
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He became like me, in order that I might receive Him:
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He was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on;
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And I trembled not when I saw Him: because He was gracious to me:
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Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him:
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7.
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The Father of knowledge is the word of knowledge:
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7.
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He who created wisdom is wiser than His works:
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7.
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And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:
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7.
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Wherefore He pitied me in His abundant grace: and granted me to ask from Him and to receive from His sacrifice:
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7.
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Because He it is that is incorrupt, the fulness of the ages and the Father of them.
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7.
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He hath given Him to be seen of them that are His, in order that they may recognize Him that made them: and that they might not suppose that they came of themselves:
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7.
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For knowledge He hath appointed as its way, He hath widened it and extended it; and brought to all perfection;
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7.
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And set over it the traces of His light, and I walked therein from the beginning even to the end.
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7.
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For by Him it was wrought, and He was resting in the Son, and for its salvation He will take hold of everything;
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7.
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And the Most High shall be known in His Saints, to announce to those that have songs of the coming of the Lord;
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7.
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That they may go forth to meet Him, and may sing to Him with joy and with the harp of many tones:
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7.
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The seers shall come before Him and they shall be seen before Him,
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7.
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And they shall praise the Lord for His love: because He is near and beholdeth.
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7.
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And hatred shall be taken from the earth, and along with jealousy it shall be drowned:
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7.
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For ignorance hath been destroyed, because the knowledge of the Lord hath arrived.
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7.
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They who make songs shall sing the grace of the Lord Most High;
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7.
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And they shall bring their songs, and their heart shall be like the day: and like the excellent beauty of the Lord their pleasant song:
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7.
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And there shall neither be anything that breathes without knowledge, nor any that is dumb:
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7.
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For He hath given a mouth to His creation, to open the voice of the mouth towards Him, to praise Him:
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7.
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Confess ye His power, and show forth His grace. Hallelujah.
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