The Psalms of Thanksgiving To YAHWEH

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YAHWEH's Eye Is Ever Watching Over My Soul

I give thanks unto Thee, O YAHWEH,
for Thine eye is ever awake, watching over my soul.
You hast delivered me from envy of them that preach falsehood,
and hast freed this hapless soul from the congregation of them
that seek smooth things -men who sought to destroy me
and spill my blood in Thy service.
Little did they know that my steps were ordered of Thee,
when they made me a mock and a reproach in the mouths of all men of deceit.
But ever, O YAHWEH, hast You holpen the needy and weak
and snatched him from the grasp of him that was stronger than he.
So hast You freed my soul from the grasp of mighty men,
nor suffered me so to be crushed by their taunts
that for fear of the mischief which the wicked might wreak
I should forsake Thy service, or change for wild delusion
the sound spirit which You hast vouchsafed me.

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