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Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
The God Who avenges me and subdues peoples under me,
For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
You shall tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the serpent shall you trample underfoot.
Man is like vanity and a breath; his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Whose mouths speak deceit and whose right hands are right hands [raised in taking] fraudulent oaths.
Say, I pray you, in the hearing of all the men of Shechem, Which is better for you: that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal reign over you, or that one man rule over you? Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
And say to Amasa, Are you not of my bone and of my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of my army hereafter in place of Joab.
And whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.
And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the naturally dead, or the grave.
THEN [after the death of Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, who ruled over eleven tribes of Israel for two troubled years after Saul's death] all Israel gathered at Hebron and said to David, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
And when these pass through the land and anyone sees a human bone, he shall set up a marker by it as a sign to the buriers, until they have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog or of Gog's multitude.
He bowed the heavens also and came down; and thick darkness was under His feet.
He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated and abhorred me, for they were too strong for me.
With the kind and merciful You will show Yourself kind and merciful, with an upright man You will show Yourself upright,
I pursued my enemies and overtook them; neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me; foreigners submitted themselves cringingly and yielded feigned obedience to me.
Yes, You are my Rock and my Fortress; therefore for Your name's sake lead me and guide me.
A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you.