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 \q2 let my speech distill like the dew,
 \q like the gentle rain on the tender grass,
 \q2 and like the showers on the plants.
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 3 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh,
-\q and ascribe greatness to our God.
+\q2 and ascribe greatness to our God.
 \q
 \v 4 The Rock, his work is perfect;
-\q for all his paths are just.
+\q2 for all his paths are just.
 \q He is the faithful God, without iniquity.
-\q He is just and upright.
+\q2 He is just and upright.
+\b
 
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 \q
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 \q They are a perverted and crooked generation.
 \q
 \v 6 Do you reward Yahweh in this way,
-\q you foolish and unwise people?
+\q2 you foolish and unwise people?
 \q Is he not your Father, the one who has created you?
-\q He made you and established you.
+\q2 He made you and established you.
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 7 Call to mind the days of ancient times,
-\q think about the years of generations past.
+\q2 think about the years of generations past.
 \q Ask your father and he will show you,
-\q your elders and they will tell you.
+\q2 your elders and they will tell you.
 \q
 \v 8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance—
-\q when he divided all of mankind,
+\q2 when he divided all of mankind,
 \q he set the boundaries of the peoples
-\q according to the number of the children of Israel.
+\q2 according to the number of the children of Israel.
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 9 For Yahweh's portion is his people;
-\q Jacob is his apportioned inheritance.
+\q2 Jacob is his apportioned inheritance.
 \q
 \v 10 He found him in a desert land,
-\q and in the barren and howling wilderness;
+\q2 and in the barren and howling wilderness;
 \q he shielded him and cared for him,
-\q he guarded him as the apple of his eye.
+\q2 he guarded him as the apple of his eye.
 
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 \q
 \v 11 As an eagle that guards her nest
-\q and flutters over her young,
+\q2 and flutters over her young,
 \q Yahweh spread out his wings and took them,
-\q and carried them on his pinions.
+\q2 and carried them on his pinions.
 \q
 \v 12 Yahweh alone led him;
-\q no foreign god was with him.
+\q2 no foreign god was with him.
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 13 He made him ride on high places of the land,
-\q and he fed him the fruits of the field;
+\q2 and he fed him the fruits of the field;
 \q he nourished him with honey from the rock,
-\q and oil from the flinty crag.
+\q2 and oil from the flinty crag.
 
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 \q
 \v 14 He ate butter from the herd and drank milk from the flock,
-\q with fat of lambs,
+\q2 with fat of lambs,
 \q rams of Bashan and goats,
-\q with the finest of the wheat—
+\q2 with the finest of the wheat—
 \q and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of grapes.
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
-\q you grew fat, you were too fat, and you had eaten your fill—
+\q2 you grew fat, you were too fat, and you had eaten your fill—
 \q he abandoned the God who made him,
-\q and he rejected the Rock of his salvation.
+\q2 and he rejected the Rock of his salvation.
 \q
 \v 16 They made Yahweh jealous by their strange gods;
-\q with their abominations they angered him.
+\q2 with their abominations they angered him.
 
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 \q
 \v 17 They sacrificed to demons, which are not God—
-\q gods they had not known,
+\q2 gods they had not known,
-\q gods that recently appeared,
+\q2 gods that recently appeared,
-\q gods your fathers did not fear.
+\q2 gods your fathers did not fear.
 \q
 \v 18 You have deserted the Rock, who became your father,
-\q and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
+\q2 and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 19 Yahweh saw this and he rejected them,
-\q because his sons and his daughters provoked him so.
+\q2 because his sons and his daughters provoked him so.
 \q
 \v 20 "I will hide my face from them," he said,
-\q "and I will see what their end will be;
+\q2 "and I will see what their end will be;
 \q for they are a perverse generation,
-\q children in whom is no faithfulness.
+\q2 children in whom is no faithfulness.
 
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 \q
 \v 21 They have made me jealous by what is not god
-\q and angered me by their worthless things.
+\q2 and angered me by their worthless things.
 \q I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
-\q by a foolish nation I will make them angry.
+\q2 by a foolish nation I will make them angry.
 
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 \q
 \v 22 For a fire is kindled by my anger
-\q and is burning to the lowest Sheol;
+\q2 and is burning to the lowest Sheol;
 \q it is devouring the earth and its produce;
-\q it is setting on fire the foundations of the mountains.
+\q2 it is setting on fire the foundations of the mountains.
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 23 I will heap disasters on them;
-\q I will shoot all my arrows at them;
+\q2 I will shoot all my arrows at them;
 \q
 \v 24 They will be wasted by hunger and devoured by burning heat
-\q and bitter destruction;
+\q2 and bitter destruction;
 \q I will send on them the teeth of wild animals,
-\q with the poison of things that crawl in the dust.
+\q2 with the poison of things that crawl in the dust.
 
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 \q
 \v 25 Outside the sword will bereave,
-\q and in the bedrooms terror will do so.
+\q2 and in the bedrooms terror will do so.
 \q It will destroy both young man and virgin,
-\q the nursing baby, and the man of gray hairs.
+\q2 the nursing baby, and the man of gray hairs.
 \q
 \v 26 I said that I would scatter them far away,
-\q that I would make the memory of them to cease from among mankind.
+\q2 that I would make the memory of them to cease from among mankind.
 
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 \q
 \v 27 Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
-\q and that their enemies would judge mistakenly,
+\q2 and that their enemies would judge mistakenly,
 \q and that they would say, 'Our hand is exalted,'
-\q I would have done all this.
+\q2 I would have done all this.
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 28 For Israel is a nation devoid of counsel,
-\q and there is no understanding in them.
+\q2 and there is no understanding in them.
 \q
 \v 29 Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
-\q that they would consider their coming fate!
+\q2 that they would consider their coming fate!
 
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 \v 30 How could one chase a thousand,
-\q and two put ten thousand to flight,
+\q2 and two put ten thousand to flight,
 \q unless their Rock had sold them,
-\q and Yahweh had given them up?
+\q2 and Yahweh had given them up?
 \q
 \v 31 For our enemies' rock is not like our Rock,
-\q just as even our enemies have concluded.
+\q2 just as even our enemies have concluded.
 
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 \q
 \v 32 For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom,
-\q and from the fields of Gomorrah;
+\q2 and from the fields of Gomorrah;
 \q their grapes are grapes of poison;
-\q their clusters are bitter.
+\q2 their clusters are bitter.
 
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 \q
 \v 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents
-\q and the cruel venom of asps.
+\q2 and the cruel venom of asps.
 \q
 \v 34 Is not this plan secretly kept by me,
-\q sealed up among my treasures?
+\q2 sealed up among my treasures?
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 35 Vengeance is mine to give, and recompense,
-\q at the time when their foot slips;
+\q2 at the time when their foot slips;
 \q for the day of disaster for them is near,
-\q and the things that are to come on them will hurry to happen."
+\q2 and the things that are to come on them will hurry to happen."
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 36 For Yahweh will give justice to his people,
-\q and he will pity his servants.
+\q2 and he will pity his servants.
 \q He will see that their power is gone,
-\q and no one remains, either slaves or free people.
+\q2 and no one remains, either slaves or free people.
 
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 \q
 \v 37 Then he will say, "Where are their gods,
-\q the rock in whom they took refuge,
+\q2 the rock in whom they took refuge,
 \q
 \v 38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices
-\q and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
+\q2 and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
 \q Let them rise up and help you;
-\q let them be your protection.
+\q2 let them be your protection.
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 39 See now that I, even I, am God,
-\q and that there is no god besides me;
+\q2 and that there is no god besides me;
 \q I kill, and I make alive;
-\q I wound, and I heal,
+\q2 I wound, and I heal,
-\q and there is no one who can save you from my might.
+\q2 and there is no one who can save you from my might.
 \q
 \v 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven
-\q and say, 'As I live forever, I will act.
+\q2 and say, 'As I live forever, I will act.
 
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 \q
 \v 41 When I sharpen my glittering sword,
-\q and when my hand begins to bring justice,
+\q2 and when my hand begins to bring justice,
 \q I will render vengeance on my enemies,
-\q and I will pay back those who hate me.
+\q2 and I will pay back those who hate me.
 
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 \q
 \v 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
-\q and my sword will devour flesh
+\q2 and my sword will devour flesh
 \q with the blood of the killed and the captives,
-\q and from the heads of the leaders of the enemy.'"
+\q2 and from the heads of the leaders of the enemy.'"
+\b
 
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 \q
 \v 43 Rejoice, you nations, with God's people,
-\q for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
+\q2 for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
 \q he will render vengeance on his enemies,
-\q and he will make atonement for his land, for his people.
+\q2 and he will make atonement for his land, for his people.
+\b
 
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 \v 1 This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
 \v 2 He said:
 \q Yahweh came from Sinai
-\q and rose from Seir upon them.
+\q2 and rose from Seir upon them.
-\q He shined out from Mount Paran,
+\q2 He shined out from Mount Paran,
 \q and he came with ten thousands of holy ones.
-\q In his right hand were flashes of lightning.
+\q2 In his right hand were flashes of lightning.
 
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 \v 3 Indeed, he loves the peoples;
-\q all his holy people are in your hand,
+\q2 all his holy people are in your hand,
 \q and they bowed down at your feet;
-\q they received your words.
+\q2 they received your words.
 \q
 \v 4 Moses commanded us a law,
-\q an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
+\q2 an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
 
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 \q
 \v 5 Then there was a king in Jeshurun,
-\q when the heads of the people had gathered,
+\q2 when the heads of the people had gathered,
-\q all the tribes of Israel together.
+\q2 all the tribes of Israel together.
 \q
 \v 6 Let Reuben live and not die,
-\q but may his men be few.
+\q2 but may his men be few.
+\b
 
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 \v 7 This is the blessing for Judah. Moses said:
 \q Listen, Yahweh, to the voice of Judah,
-\q and bring him to his people again.
+\q2 and bring him to his people again.
 \q Fight for him;
-\q be a help against his enemies.
+\q2 be a help against his enemies.
+\b
 
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 \v 8 About Levi, Moses said:
 \q Your Thummim and your Urim belong to your faithful one,
 \q the one whom you tested at Massah,
-\q with whom you struggled at the waters of Meribah,
+\q2 with whom you struggled at the waters of Meribah,
 
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 \q
 \v 9 who said about his father and mother, "I have not seen them."
 \q Neither did he acknowledge his brothers,
-\q nor did he take account of his own children.
+\q2 nor did he take account of his own children.
 \q For he guarded your word
-\q and kept your covenant.
+\q2 and kept your covenant.
 
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 \q
 \v 10 He teaches Jacob your decrees
-\q and Israel your law.
+\q2 and Israel your law.
 \q He will put incense before you
-\q and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
+\q2 and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
 
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 \v 11 Bless, Yahweh, his possessions,
-\q and accept the work of his hands.
+\q2 and accept the work of his hands.
 \q Shatter the loins of those who rise up against him,
-\q and those of the people who hate him, so that they do not rise up again.
+\q2 and those of the people who hate him, so that they do not rise up again.
+\b
 
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 \v 12 About Benjamin, Moses said:
 \q The one loved by Yahweh lives in security beside him;
-\q Yahweh shields him all the day long,
+\q2 Yahweh shields him all the day long,
-\q and he lives between Yahweh's arms.
+\q2 and he lives between Yahweh's arms.
+\b
 
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 \v 13 About Joseph, Moses said:
 \q May his land be blessed by Yahweh
-\q with the precious things of heaven, with the dew,
+\q2 with the precious things of heaven, with the dew,
-\q and with the deep that lies beneath.
+\q2 and with the deep that lies beneath.
 
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 \v 14 May his land be blessed with the precious things of the harvest of the sun,
-\q with the precious things of the produce of the months,
+\q2 with the precious things of the produce of the months,
 \q
 \v 15 with the finest things of the ancient mountains,
-\q and with the precious things of the everlasting hills.
+\q2 and with the precious things of the everlasting hills.
 
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 \v 16 May his land be blessed with the precious things of the earth and its abundance,
-\q and with the good will of him who was in the bush.
+\q2 and with the good will of him who was in the bush.
 \q Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph,
-\q and on the top of the head of him who was prince over his brothers.
+\q2 and on the top of the head of him who was prince over his brothers.
 
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 \q
 \v 17 The firstborn of an ox, majestic is he,
-\q and his horns are the horns of a wild ox.
+\q2 and his horns are the horns of a wild ox.
 \q With them he will push the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth.
 \q These are the ten thousands of Ephraim;
-\q these are the thousands of Manasseh.
+\q2 these are the thousands of Manasseh.
+\b
 
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 \v 18 About Zebulun, Moses said:
 \q Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,
-\q and you, Issachar, in your tents.
+\q2 and you, Issachar, in your tents.
 \q
 \v 19 They will call the peoples to the mountains.
-\q There will they offer sacrifices of righteousness.
+\q2 There will they offer sacrifices of righteousness.
 \q For they will suck the abundance of the seas,
-\q and from the sand on the seashore.
+\q2 and from the sand on the seashore.
+\b
 
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 \v 20 About Gad, Moses said:
 \q Blessed be he who enlarges Gad.
-\q He will live there like a lioness,
+\q2 He will live there like a lioness,
-\q and he will tear off an arm or a head.
+\q2 and he will tear off an arm or a head.
 
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 \v 21 He provided the best part for himself,
-\q for there was the leader's portion of land reserved.
+\q2 for there was the leader's portion of land reserved.
 \q He came with the heads of the people.
-\q He carried out the justice of Yahweh
+\q2 He carried out the justice of Yahweh
-\q and his decrees with Israel.
+\q2 and his decrees with Israel.
+\b
 
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 \v 22 About Dan, Moses said:
 \q Dan is a lion cub
-\q that leaps out from Bashan.
+\q2 that leaps out from Bashan.
+\b
 
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 \v 23 About Naphtali, Moses said:
 \q Naphtali, satisfied with favor,
-\q and full of the blessing of Yahweh,
+\q2 and full of the blessing of Yahweh,
-\q take possession of the land to the west and south.
+\q2 take possession of the land to the west and south.
+\b
 
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 \v 24 About Asher, Moses said:
 \q Blessed be Asher more than the other sons;
-\q let him be acceptable to his brothers,
+\q2 let him be acceptable to his brothers,
-\q and let him dip his foot in olive oil.
+\q2 and let him dip his foot in olive oil.
 \q
 \v 25 May your city bars be iron and bronze;
-\q as long as will be your days, so long will your security be.
+\q2 as long as will be your days, so long will your security be.
+\b
 
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 \v 26 There is no one like the God of Jeshurun,
-\q who rides through the heavens to your help,
+\q2 who rides through the heavens to your help,
-\q and in his majesty on the clouds.
+\q2 and in his majesty on the clouds.
 
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 \v 27 The eternal God is a refuge,
-\q and underneath are the everlasting arms.
+\q2 and underneath are the everlasting arms.
 \q He thrust out the enemy from before you,
-\q and he said, "Destroy!"
+\q2 and he said, "Destroy!"
 
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 \v 28 Israel dwelt in safety.
-\q Jacob's spring was secure
+\q2 Jacob's spring was secure
 \q in a land of grain and new wine;
-\q indeed, let his heavens drop dew on him.
+\q2 indeed, let his heavens drop dew on him.
 
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 \v 29 Your blessings are many, Israel!
-\q Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
+\q2 Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh,
 \q the shield of your help,
-\q and the sword of your majesty?
+\q2 and the sword of your majesty?
 \q Your enemies will come trembling to you;
-\q you will trample down their high places.
+\q2 you will trample down their high places.
+\b
 
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