For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies.
I will make them strong in the Lord, and they shall walk in his name,” declares the Lord.
“Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.
O Lord, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.
“Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable?
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.
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