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SELECT VERSES FROM THE 147TH PSALM.
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PRAISE ye the Lord with cheerful voice,
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In swelling strains his praises sing, |
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It makes the grateful heart rejoice, |
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It is a blest and pleasant thing. |
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He who the broken heart doth brace, |
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And bindeth up the wounded frame, |
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Numbers the host through heaven's vast space, |
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And gives to every star its name. |
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With fleecy clouds he clothes the sky, |
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He stores the moistened earth with good, |
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From him the ravens when they cry, |
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And savage beasts receive their food. |
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He sends afar his high behests, |
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Which sea and land with blessings fill; |
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Swift flies his word, no power arrests |
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The course of his almighty will. |
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