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With seas as foundations and rivers as boundaries,
    He shaped the continents, fashioned the earth.

Who can possibly ascend the mountain of the Eternal?
    Who can stand before Him in sacred spaces?
Only those whose hands have been washed and hearts made pure,
    men and women who are not given to lies or deception.

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for he founded it on the seas
    and established it on the waters.(A)

Who may ascend the mountain(B) of the Lord?
    Who may stand in his holy place?(C)
The one who has clean hands(D) and a pure heart,(E)
    who does not trust in an idol(F)
    or swear by a false god.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 24:4 Or swear falsely

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

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