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Psalms 143:4-12 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

4. Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

5. Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.

6. Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

7. Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:

8. Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

9. To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.

10. Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

11. Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

12. Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

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