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Thanksgiving for the Lord’s Favor.
A Psalm of David.
AI will give You thanks with all my heart;
I will sing praises to You before the Bgods.
I will bow down Atoward Your holy temple
And Bgive thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your 1truth;
For You have Cmagnified Your 2word 3according to all Your name.
On the day I Acalled, You answered me;
You made me bold with Bstrength in my soul.
 
AAll the kings of the earth will give thanks to You, O Lord,
When they have heard the words of Your mouth.
And they will Asing of the ways of the Lord,
For Bgreat is the glory of the Lord.
For Athough the Lord is exalted,
Yet He Bregards the lowly,
But the Chaughty He knows from afar.
 
Though I Awalk in the midst of trouble, You will 1Brevive me;
You will Cstretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
And Your right hand will Dsave me.
The Lord will Aaccomplish what concerns me;
Your Blovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting;
CDo not forsake the Dworks of Your hands.
A 138:1 Ps 111:1 B 138:1 Ps 95:3; 96:4; 97:7 A 138:2 1 Kin 8:29; Ps 5:7; 28:2 B 138:2 Ps 140:13 1 138:2 Or faithfulness C 138:2 Is 42:21 2 138:2 Or promise 3 138:2 Or together with A 138:3 Ps 118:5 B 138:3 Ps 28:7; 46:1 A 138:4 Ps 72:11; 102:15 A 138:5 Ps 145:7 B 138:5 Ps 21:5 A 138:6 Ps 113:4-7 B 138:6 Prov 3:34; Is 57:15; Luke 1:48; James 4:6; 1 Pet 5:5 C 138:6 Ps 40:4; 101:5 A 138:7 Ps 23:4; 143:11 1 138:7 Or keep me alive B 138:7 Ezra 9:8, 9; Ps 71:20; Is 57:15 C 138:7 Ex 7:5; 15:12; Is 5:25; Jer 51:25; Ezek 6:14; 25:13 D 138:7 Ps 20:6; 60:5 A 138:8 Ps 57:2; Phil 1:6 B 138:8 Ps 136:1 C 138:8 Job 10:8; Ps 27:9; 71:9; 119:8 D 138:8 Job 10:3; 14:15; Ps 100:3