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Psalm 146

¹Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.
²While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
³Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
⁴His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
⁵Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
⁶Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
⁷Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:
⁸The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:
⁹The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
¹⁰The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord.

Psalm 149

¹Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
²Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
³Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
⁴For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
⁵Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
⁶Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
⁷To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
⁸To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
⁹To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.

⁹Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
¹⁰Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
¹¹Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
¹²Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
¹³Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
¹⁴Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
¹⁵The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
¹⁶The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
¹⁷So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

¹¹Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
¹²Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
¹³Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
¹⁴Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
¹⁵And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
¹⁶As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
¹⁷Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
¹⁸But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.