The Psalms of Thanksgiving To YAHWEH
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YAHWEH, THOU hast Hedged Me
I
give thanks unto Thee, O YAHWEH,
for
Thou hast put my soul in the bundle of life l
and
hedged me against all the snares of corruption.
Because
I clung to Thy Covenant,
fierce
men sought after my life.
But
they-a league of Falsehood, a congregation of Belial
they
knew not that through Thee I would stand.
For
Thou in Thy mercy dost save my life;
for
by Thee are my footsteps guided.
Of
Thy doing it was that they assailed me,
to
the end that by Thy judgment on the wicked
Thy
glory might stand revealed,
and
that Thou mightest show forth through me
Thy
power against mankind;
for
by Thy mercy I have stood.
Mighty
men, I said, have pitched their camp against
me,
their
weapons have compassed me,
their
shafts have been loosed unceasing;
the
flash of their spears is like fire devouring timber
and
the roar of their voices like the roar of many waters.
Like
a floodburst bringing ruin far and wide,
all
weak things and frail
they
crush in a pounding cascade
Yet,
while my heart was dissolving like water,
my soul held firm to Thy
covenant,
and
they -their own foot was caught
in
the net they had spread for me;
in
the traps they had hidden for my soul themselves they fell.
'Now
that my foot on level ground doth rest,
Where
men foregather, I will call Thee blest'.
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