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A Psalm For A Royal Coronoation Introduction ........................................................................ 2! Story Steps ......................................................................... 4! Weakness/Need .............................................................. 4! Desire ........................................................................... 12! Opponent ...................................................................... 13! Plan .............................................................................. 15! Battle ............................................................................ 16! The Nations Protest? .................................................... 19! Kings on earth rise up .................................................. 21! Let us break their shackles ........................................... 24! The one enthroned in heaven laughs ............................ 26! Then speaks to them in anger....................................... 28! I myself have installed my King .................................. 30! I will proclaim the decree of the Lord ......................... 32! Only ask it of me .......................................................... 34! With an iron rod you shall shepherd them ................... 35! And now, kings, give heed........................................... 36! Serve the Lord with fear .............................................. 37! Works Cited ................................................................. 40!

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Here are some guidelines that can be used to help you with using the Psalms while in the presence of the Eucharistic Lord. A. Alway begin your prayer with a prayer to the Holy Spirit. You can use a traditional prayer blessed by the Church or simply say with the deepest humility available at the time, Come, Holy Spirit. B. Choose any of the Psalms. Read a verse and repeat it while delighting that you are in the presence of God who is making his Word come alive to you here and now. Remember that the same eternal word that created all things from nothing is present to you and is present to receive your prayer and listen to your acts of worship. C. If you come across a word that suddenly has an interest to you (like a highlighter drawing your attention in your mind and heart), then stop and rest there to see what God is wanting to tell you.

LeFort 3 D. Whenever you find consolation in your passage allow it to speak to you. E. If you do not find consolation in a passage, do not be hasty in moving on. Spend several minutes with it to see whether the Lord will reveal himself in the darkness of you feelings, like a star shining in a dark place. Often in these kinds of contrasts, the Spirit can work very effectively in teaching the soul and in making it more docile in its adherence to the Word.

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According to John Truby (2007) in his groundbreaking book The Anatomy of Story : 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, there are 7 steps that are essential to every good story. First, of all, we are not looking at the Psalms at anything but as Divine revelation. On the other hand, we are also looking at the story of peoples lives as they are lived out in the Psalms. We are looking at how people have been able to overcome lives difficulties thru the interaction of God in their lives. Given that background it will be good to see how the seven essential story elements can be found in the Psalms. The hero of the story is battling something in his life that is destroying him: From the very beginning of the story, your hero has one or more great weaknesses that are holding him back.

LeFort 5 Something is missing within him that is so profound, it is ruining his life.1 In Psalms One what is that weakness or weaknesses? These weaknesses may come in the form of psychological and moral needs as well as ignorance or a blind spot in the heros life, that keeps him or her seeing the real goal. In this first Psalms is unhappiness. The Psalmist was not happy following the way he had chosen and that is the one thing that keeps the Psalmist close to God. Unhappiness comes in many sizes, shapes and forms, but we are speaking of existential happiness at the core of our being. This kind of happiness can only be filled by God alone. We will go into more detail about this happiness later, but for now we just want to identify the weakness, so that we can appreciate the growth from weakness to strength, from begin void of something to be ing filled with something. This existential

Truby, John (2008-10-14). The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller (p. 38). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.

LeFort 6 need fans out into both the psychological and the moral dimension of the psalmist. In average stories, the hero has only a psychological need. A psychological need involves overcoming a serious flaw that is hurting nobody but the hero. In better stories, the hero has a moral need in addition to a psychological need. The hero must overcome a moral flaw and learn how to act properly toward other people. A character with a moral need is always hurting others in some way (his moral weakness) at the beginning of the story.2

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What is the psychological weakness that is hurting only the Psalmist at the beginning of this story? It is the same plaguing and crippling weakness that is inherited by every person since Adam, original sin. Since the Psalmist is an advocate for every man, he is also one who can identify with every person in their need. St. Augustine, I his

LeFort 7 commentary on the Psalms, calls this Man, Christ Jesus.3 Though we know Jesus never had to carry original sin, since he was the natural Son of God, yet he vicariously carried our weaknesses without sin. Unlike Jesus who never strayed from the truth, the First Man, Adam and those who followed in his footsteps, which here the Psalmist also identifies with, know and have the knowledge of sin. This weakness, according to John Truby, as mentioned above, is what keeps wounding the hero and keeping him back from the goal. Just how bad is this weakness? It is so serious a fault to have barred all mankind from the Kingdom of God forever. No one was able to heal this fault. It was so deeply embedded in the moral and psychological makeup of mankind that mankind lamented this fault for centuries. St. Paul put it this way, For just as through the disobedience of one person the many were made sinners, so through the obedience of one the many will be

Ibid., p. 39. Chrysostom, Augustin, and Philip Schaff. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the
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LeFort 8 made righteous. (New American Bible, Rom. 5:19) Who was this one person? Adam! We need to put this into proper perspective, so that we can see how great a weakness the Psalmist inherited. First of all, not only did Adam receive natural and supernatural gifts at the beginning of Creation, but not for himself, since those gifts were to be transmitted to all mankind.4 At the same time when Adam, thru disobedience, lost sanctifying grace and the preternatural gifts, he lost them for all mankind. It was only with the New Adam, in Christ Jesus himself, that mankind would be restored back to its fullness. This is the greatest psychological weakness a person can bare, since it not only ruins a persons natural life, but also makes it impossible to reach supernatural beatitude, which is the ultimate goal of all. When the Psalmist says Happy are those who do not follow the counsel of the wicked, he was speaking out of a

Christian Church: [first Series]. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1980. Print,. pg. 9. 4 Ott, Ludwig. Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma. St. Louis, Mo.: B. Herder Book Co., 1964. Print, 105.

LeFort 9 long history of sin and weakness since Adam. All of the prophets and patriarchs had witnessed to it and given experiential proof in their own lives that sin was a consuming reality that destroyed all mankind and would continue to, save for the grace of God. Was the Psalmist someone who had completed the journey of a hero or who was still on the journey. I believe that he was someone who was still on the journey. Jesus said of them, Many longed to see what you see and did not see it, to hear what you hear but did not hear it. They had been given a glimpse of the freedom but had not yet attained it. They had seen the devastating fires of sin, the heartbreaks and destruction it caused, but had not arrived at the fullness of liberation from it. Despite the fact that he had not yet reached it, he had reached it more so than others who had not yet even begun to look at how sin had destroyed their lives. It was to these people he was directing his story.

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LeFort 10 As John Truby says a hero with a moral weakness is always hurting others in his life. Youve seen these people before. When I was a teenager my Mother would say to me Dont go into bars, they are not a good place to go and you dont know what kind of people are going to be there. Stay out of them. As a teenager Id go anyway. Id go because I was curious. Later, I realized what my Mother was saying, and I stopped going to the bars, because I changed from within and began to think more clearly, but for a while I was hurting my Mother. In the same way perhaps there were people in the lives of the prophet who had warned him to do not follow the counsel of the wicked, or do not go the way of sinners, but still felt an attraction to hand out or around those scoffers and sinners. There were other people in the community whom he was hurting with his lifestyle, but he didnt see it. In the end grace began to transform him from within. He wasnt aware of how much hurt he had caused. It was the same with St. Paul who was persecuting the Christians, who was acting zealously

LeFort 11 under the law, but when Jesus opened his eyes and knocked him off his horse and Annanias removed the scales from his eyes, he was able to see his own self-righteousness and grace helped him correct it. The essential thing to understand about the moral need is that it is hurting other people. This person has to do something to stop hurting other people. I believe that the Psalmist was no speaking self-righteously when he spoke these words. Just like David could truly speak the words of Ps. 51 Have mercy on me, O God, so this Psalms was a sincere confession of where the Psalmist had been. Perhaps we can fancy to paraphrase it. Believe me, do not follow the counsel of the wicked, it will not bring you happiness. Just as a person who is telling the story of their lives, they are listened to because these are events that touched the life of this person, so the Psalmist is recounting what ways he was saved from being unhappy. This can be made a little more clearer this way. St. Paul say, what do you have that you have not received? If you have received it how can you boast

LeFort 12 of it that you have not received it.? In the same way when the Psalmist says, Happy are those. He is confessing that the happiness he speaks of is in contrast to what was truly his own, an unhappy, state of soul, which was being without God in his life.

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According to John Truby Desire is what your hero wants in the story, his particular goal.5 Desire is the objective goal of the hero, what the hero wants to obtain by the end of the story. What is the goal that the psalmist wants? That is his goal. In Blockbuster (2013) desire is divided into three different acts. Goal: You are my son; today I am your father. (Ps. 2:7) Motive: Serve the Lord with fear. (Ps. 2:11) Stakes : To shepherd his people. (Ps. 2:9) If he loses: he will not survive the day of judgment.

LeFort 13 Truby makes a clear distinction between the desire (outside ) and need (inside). Need is always related to the weakness of the hero. It is what he needs to become whole again and be free. The desire of the hero has to do with an objective goal that the hero wants to obtain. Unlike Psalm One, Psalm Two reveals many battles the hero must overcome in order to become the hero.

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The opponent of the story is the person who wants to stop the hero from accomplishing his goal; however, both the opponent and the hero are competing for the same goal.6 Both the opponent of the psalmist and the psalmist are competing for what goal? They are both searching for happiness. The Psalmist seeks happiness by meditating on the law of the Lord day and night, while the sinner, the scoffer, and the wicked, search for happiness by following

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LeFort 14 the way of the wicked. While the Psalmist depends upon the Lord to lead him to happiness, the wicked man believes he can find happiness by himself. Who are the opponents of the Psalmist? They are the ones who bury their consciences in the sand of morality, so that they will not have to consider the first principles right and wrong in their lives. The self-righteous person believes he/she can justify their own existence and by doing so justify their own actions as being good or bad, while the just person follows a different principle of understanding themselves. They see their actions as not having any meaning, except that they conform to the will of God in their lives. If in their consciences it doesnt conform to the Divine Will, they are not inclined to carry out the least thing. With faith at the center of all their moral actions, they do not judge any singular action in and of itself, but see their whole lives as only a reflection of what God does thru them, which only charity and faith detect.

LeFort 15 The opponents in this psalm are those who are rising up against the Kings anointed and who gather together to plot how to overthrow the Kings anointed. These are the treacherous enemies of the King, who would have his own Son dethroned in order that they would rule. Perhaps they are jealous of the power of this newly appointed King who has been promised all the nations as an inheritance.

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What is the plan of the Psalmist? How will he come to his goal? The plan is the set of guidelines, or strategies, the hero will use to overcome the opponent and reach the goal.7 The Psalmist sees that on Gods Law they (should) study day and night. This is their battle plan and in this they see all of their actions. As their actions are more conformed to this principle they believe they are carrying out what God intends in their life, while if they perceive that their law is drifting from this continual conformity to Gods Law then

LeFort 16 they believe that they are not heeding Gods reign. What are they willing to go thru in order to reach their goal? That is what is called their battle.

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The battle is the attacks the Psalmist will receive in the face of living out his commitment to God in his life. Much of this battle will be in confronting those who grumble in vain,(vs. 1) in shepherding with an iron rod,(vs. 9) and in remaining steadfast in the face of those who plot together against the Lord and his anointed. (vs. 2) What self-revelation does the Psalmist receive by living this kind of life? The psalmist speaks of this anointed King as having a heavy burden to bear from those who want to see him dethroned, yet he has gained the blessing of the King himself, so he has nothing to fear form his enemies.

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Insights come to the hero in the form of selfrevelation. The Psalmist begins to realize that no one can really hurt you if you are only fulfilling your own cause in the light of what God asks of you. Someone can oppose your external actions, but no one can make you do what God alone can command you to do nor not do. What does the hero learn about himself and how does it change him/her? The Psalmist comes to a deeper understanding that the power that supports is mission is greater than his opponents. He has been blessed with a royal privilege. He only needs to fulfill his desire to do the Kings will and the King will uphold him. Already the King laughs at his enemies, knowing that they will not be able to overcome his anointed.

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Thru the battle for the goal, the hero reaches a selfrevelation. Because of what he/she has learned the hero can

LeFort 18 look back at his triumph and appreciate the growth that it has brought him. A new strength has developed in the hero. The hero finds some new strength or wisdom in their life. Reaching this inner transformation, the hero is able to return to his owl world and help others overcome the very same things he has learn to battle and overcome. He has truly become a hero. This equilibrium is established in the hero after a long and arduous battle that he has to enter into. Often this equilibrium comes about as a result of his internal as well as his external battles.

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Why do the nations protest and the peoples grumble in vain? (New American Bible, Ps. 2:1)

The psalmist ask this question because he is awestruck at the incredulity of these people who raise themselves up against the Lord of glory. He doesnt refer to one person but a nation of protesters. Is it possible that so many people could try to find fault against God? Yet, many people think that if there are enough people who turn against God, then God will change, but that is a fantasy. See how many have turned against God since the beginning of human history, even since the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Has God changed? No! See how many have left the Church and started so many denominations, causing disunity in the One Church of God. Has God changed? No! Why do they protest? They protest because they do not have the faith to see that

LeFort 20 God is Love and that unless he were love, neither could they protest nor exist. By their existence he shows his power, by allowing them to protest he shows his mercy and patience.

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Kings on earth rise up and princes plot together against the Lord and his anointed: (New American Bible, Ps. 2:2)

Is this not folly that those who are filled with arrogance and have allowed pride and conceit to puff their minds up, so that they no longer see the majesty of God but the vanity of their own ego? That is exactly what happens when self displaces God. This is the same thing that satan said, I will not serve. Could anyone presume to do anything at all without the very hand of God giving him the power even to do the least natural thing? Here the Psalmist shows that a man may be great in the eyes of men, yet be very far from the King of Kings, who neither needs rulers or Kings to do his will. It is one thing when a man lifts up his heart to God in prayer and beg for mercy, but it is quite

LeFort 22 another to try to lift oneself up above God, which is insane pride. He so flatters himself in his own mind and so deceives those who are near him to make them think that all he does comes from Him, but he is wrong and God will humble him forever in the sight of all. Jesus said those who were afraid to acknowledge him before men, he would also be ashamed of before his heavenly Father. To see how evil is pride and how it corrupts even the greatest of men, see how these men not only want to overcome the King but also the anointed of the King. Just as a Prince inherits the power of the throne, so the anointed of the Lord inherits the power of the Lord. But they erred in vain. When they saw the lowly carpenter from Nazareth, they thought to themselves, isnt this the son of the carpenter? The same pride lives today in the hearts of so many people. They build up larger barns for themselves on earth and want everyone to praise them for their great accomplishments, even going so far as to try to steal the very glory of God, but God cannot be mocked by their pride. He will see those evil

LeFort 23 men, who are already receiving their praise from men, get what they deserve. God is not outwitted by foolishness, no matter how many people follow these evil leaders. Can God be changed by an evil will and mind? No, God doesnt have to change for anyone. But these evil men, who are even taking their places even in the sanctuary of God, will be cast down for all eternity by the breath of the Only-Begotten to whom all authority in heaven and earth has been given to.

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Let us break their shackles and cast off their chains (New American Bible, Ps. 2:3) In other words, the evil men not only want to lose themselves from the constraints of the yoke of the Lord, but cast all discipline aside for the sake of following their own ways. Jesus had asked his disciples before: Will you also go away? Isnt this what the Pharisees and Sadducees did when they dragged Jesus before their false witnesses? It was they who tried to convince those who were willing to listen to their own self-justifications that they tried to lift themselves up against justice himself. What are these chains? These are the chains of obedience to the Law of the Lord, which the wicked desire to shatter and be set free of. They do not see what end is waiting for them, since they only see the temporal joy they, filled with pride, that they experience now. Later, they will see how kind God was to them to allow them to go their way. God is not mocked by evil, he sees it

LeFort 25 end. He only allows this evil to happen so that those who have faith and keep their feet shackled to the sweet Law of love, will be even more enlightened and strengthened when the see how God guides the wicked on their way. The wicked think that by hiding their evil intention behind a billboard God does not see their evil hearts, but they are wrong and God will show them their eternal wickedness in time. God acts patiently, so that the good wheat of his elect is not pulled up with the weeds of the wicked. He lets them grow together, but evidently they do not bear the same fruit. They play like they are experts before the world, but God will show them how childish their games are.

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The one enthroned in heaven laughs; The Lord derides them. (New American Bible, Ps. 2:4) The person here who laughs in not the King nor a prince, but God himself who creates all things from nothing. He is in need of nothing, yet the wicked think that God does not see their evil deeds and that he is the witness of their inmost self. What does the psalmist say? He says God laughs. He doesnt laugh as we do when we experience the incongruous, but God laughs because he sees the end of the wicked who follow their own wicked counsel. As the psalmist says, they so flatter themselves in their own mind they know not their guilt. God becomes no less blessed because the wicked continue to do their wicked deeds. God is not moved by their evil, but neither will he allow them to put God to shame, for no one can shame God. God acts humble and meekly towards them and shows not his anger, but that does not change Gods eternal justice, for God is immutable.

LeFort 27 The wicked believe that since God allows them to carry on with their foolish lives God means it is O.K., but they are sadly mistaken, God derides them. God chooses not to confront them now, since he knows they are set in their evil ways, but there will come a time, since there is a time for everything under the sun, and at that time he will minister his justice. Even then it is God who laughs. God laughs for he is infinitely blissful and happy and he cannot be anything but blissful. No evil robs him of his blissfulness, even when the wicked flatter themselves and the whole world.

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Then speaks to them in anger, terrifies them in wrath: (New American Bible, Ps. 2:5) He laughs, but there will come a time when he will punish. He will then set them apart some on his left and others on his right. He will judge them all, and everyones works will be tested to see where they stand. All the vanity will be drained from these works and only those who have built them on this Word will endure. For he is the only enduring reality and the One that the Father is well pleased. Then they will realize that they have nowhere to hide, since the Word speaks to all things and everywhere and they will not be able to run far enough from his voice, for they will have to live with the conviction of his Word in their corrupt minds and hearts for all eternity. As the psalmist say it will be a terrifying judgment. They will see then that the things they were doing which they thought were harmless were destroying the work of God and had no eternal value before

LeFort 29 God. When the just are being born aloft to heaven, they will remain shamefaced before God unable to repent nor enter the Kingdom. Now they laugh when they should be weeping; now they play when they should be studying the law of the Lord day and night; now they lie and cheat behind closed doors when they should be walking in the light of truth and the beauty of love.

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I myself have installed my King on Zion, my holy mountain. (New American Bible, Ps. 2:6)

Who has installed his King? It is the Lord who has installed his only Begotten Son. This is God from God and light from light, true God from true God. But the wicked think that this is only words in a theology book, for they fear not the Majesty of God that will strike them down. They mock the blood of Jesus Christ by their evil ways. Men sleeping with men and women sleeping with women, knowing that all these things are sinful and no pleasing to God. God is not mocked by their wickedness. They will never stand on Gods holy Mountain. When God installs no one can change it. The wicked think that they can depose God from his eternal throne. They err wrongly and eternally when they do this, for God sees all the thoughts of their

LeFort 31 hearts and he sees how he will punish them for all eternity in their arrogance and pride. The heap insult upon God and his Church, but God sees how he will deal with them for all eternity and how the Only Son of God will deal with them in his wisdom.

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I will proclaim the decree of the Lord, who said to me, You are my son; today I am your father. (New American Bible, Ps. 2:7)

What will he proclaim? He will proclaim what has been given to him from eternity, to do the will of God. The decree is the will of God in which is all delight. In eternity the Father always calls his Son by his natural name, which is the Word. As St. John says, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. (Jn. 1: 1) So the wicked were wrong in trying to depose the Son form his throne, since it was the Father, in his eternity, who placed him. When I say placed, I mean that in the unity of the Blessed Trinity, the Unity is eternal. The Father begets the Son and the Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son.

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Only ask it of me, and I will make your inheritance the nations, your possession the ends of the earth. (New American Bible, Ps. 2:8)

So powerful is God that he would give his only Son all the nations as an inheritance. Already Jesus acknowledges that the Father has given to him authority to judge all the nations. Only one thing does Jesus want more than all, my food and my drink is to do the will of him who sent me.

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With an iron rod you shall shepherd them Like a clay pot you will shatter them. (New American Bible, Ps. 2:9)

The psalmist shows how powerful will the shepherd rule over his flock and how he will break his enemies strength with his meekness and humility. He will not bruise the bent reed, scripture says of him. Though he was seen to be weak exteriorly, yet interiorly he was like us in all things but sin. This interior commitment to the Fathers will would be the downfall of his enemies who wanted to overcome his kingdom with natural methods, while his Kingdom was established in eternal wisdom and power.

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And now, kings, give heed; Take warning, rulers on earth. (New American Bible, Ps. 2:10) He warns the Kings to take heed of this King appointed by God and to heed his Word. The Father did this when Jesus came up from the waters at the Jordan, when he said : This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased, listen to Him. The voice of the Father didnt speak in vain, but vain were those men who didnt heed that voice, which is the I AM. Jesus wanted us to know that If they have hated you, know that they hated me before you. No servant is greater than his Master. These men wouldnt even heed the warning coming from heaven. Not only those men, but many until the end of time will go off following their own authority, rather than following the one who has been given all authority in heaven and earth.

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Serve the Lord with fear With trembling bow down in homage, Lest God be angry and you perish from the way In a sudden blaze of anger, Happy are all who take refuge in God! (New American Bible, Ps. 2:11)

Many fail to fear God, but hide behind the religious robes of a priest, monk or Bishop, rather than humbling their own hearts before God. They believe that following God with their mouths while keeping their hearts far from him is the mark of a true disciple, but they are wrong, for the Father wants those who worship in spirit and in truth. But when God will be angry they will perish from the way, which they had a stronghold on. They thought that prancing around the sanctuary carrying out pious actions without being pious in heart would be pleasing to God. God warns them here

LeFort 38 when he says, serve the lord with fear. They still heed not, but use the house of God for living out their own fantasies, thinking that they can force Gods hand to do as they please. Even the Bishops will be held accountable for the priests that they had allowed to serve God for vain reasons. If anyone enter any other way, they are a thief and a marauder, Jesus says of them. They only come to destroy the sheep and not to lead them to holiness, because they do not have the Holy Spirit in them. They see things only from a natural view and have no grace in their minds and hearts. The Psalmist is careful to not scare away the true flock of God, who know who they are, happy are all who take refuge in God.

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