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(Let me be weighed in a just balance,
and let God know my integrity!)
The Lord judges the peoples;
judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
and according to the integrity that is in me.
I will tell of your name to my brothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will perform before those who fear him.
Vindicate me, O Lord,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
Teach me your way, O Lord,
and lead me on a level path
because of my enemies.
Into your hand I commit my spirit;
you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.
I will thank you in the great congregation;
in the mighty throng I will praise you.
He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.
I have told the glad news of deliverance
in the great congregation;
behold, I have not restrained my lips,
as you know, O Lord.
I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart;
I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;
I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness
from the great congregation.
Rise up; come to our help!
Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!
“Bless God in the great congregation,
the Lord, O you who are of Israel’s fountain!”
Draw near to my soul, redeem me;
ransom me because of my enemies!
Redeem me from man’s oppression,
that I may keep your precepts.
Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God!
Let your good Spirit lead me
on level ground!
The path of the righteous is level;
you make level the way of the righteous.
A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
I have stirred him up in righteousness,
and I will make all his ways level;
he shall build my city
and set my exiles free,
not for price or reward,”
says the Lord of hosts.
Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’ ”
And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon,
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
redeem me, and be gracious to me.
My foot stands on level ground;
in the great assembly I will bless the Lord.