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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 9: 15 (9:16) The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Psalms 9: 16 (9:17) The LORD hath made Himself known, He hath executed judgment, the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah
Psalms 9: 17 (9:18) The wicked shall return to the nether-world, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 9: 18 (9:19) For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.
Psalms 9: 19 (9:20) Arise, O LORD, let not man prevail; let the nations be judged in Thy sight.
Psalms 9: 20 (9:21) Set terror over them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah
Psalms 10: 1 Why standest Thou afar off, O LORD? Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble?
Psalms 10: 2 Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, they are taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 10: 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and the covetous vaunteth himself, though he contemn the LORD.
Psalms 10: 4 The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith: 'He will not require'; all his thoughts are: 'There is no God.'
Psalms 10: 5 His ways prosper at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
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