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The Crusade Psalm.

Leader. — Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul.

Response. — While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have being.

Leader. — Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Response. — His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Leader. — Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.

Response. — Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth forever:

Leader. — Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners.

Response. — The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:

Leader. — The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

Response. — The Lord shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord.