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As the work of the husbandman is the ploughshare: and the work of the steersman is the guidance of the ship:
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So also my work is the Psalm of the Lord: my craft and my occupation are in His praises:
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Because His love bath nourished my heart, and even to my lips His fruits He poured out.
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For my love is the Lord, and therefore I will sing unto Him:
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For I am made strong in His praise, and I have faith in Him.
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I will open my mouth and His spirit will utter in me the glory of the Lord and His beauty; the work of His hands and the operation of His fingers:
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The multitude of His mercies and the strength of His word.
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For the word of the Lord searches out all things, both the invisible and that which reveals His thought;
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For the eye sees His works, and the ear hears His thought;
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He spread out the earth and He settled the waters in the sea:
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He measured the heavens and fixed the stars: and He established the creation and set it up:
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And He rested from His works:
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And created things run in their courses, and do their works:
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And they know not how to stand and be idle; and His heavenly hosts are subject to His word.
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The treasure-chamber of the light is the sun, and the treasury of the darkness is the night:
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And He made the sun for the day that it may be bright, but night brings darkness over the face of the land;
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And their alternations one to the other speak the beauty of God:
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IS And there is nothing that is without the Lord; for He was before any thing came into being:
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And the worlds were made by His word, and by the thought of His heart. Glory and honour to His name. Hallelujah.
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