Text of prayer Psalm 62
In Church Slavonic
1 Psalm to David, when he was never in the wilderness of Judea
2 O God, my God, I have come to You in the morning; my soul has thirsted for You, since my flesh is abundant in You, in a land that is empty and impenetrable and without water.
3 Thus I appeared to You in holy things, to see Your power and Your glory.
4 For Thy mercy is better than life, my lips praise Thee.
5 Thus I will bless Thee in my life; I will lift up my hands in Thy name.
6 For my soul may be filled with fatness and ointment, and my lips will praise You with joy.
7 When I remembered Thee on my bed, I learned from Thee in the morning.
8 For Thou art my Helper, and in the shelter of Thy wing I will rejoice.
9 My soul clings to You, but I am accepted by Your right hand.
10 And they, having sought my soul in vain, will go down into the depths of the earth,
11 they will surrender into the hands of arms, parts of the fox will be.
12 But the king will rejoice in God, and everyone who swears by Him will boast, because the lips of those who speak unrighteously have been stopped.
In Russian
1 Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judea.
2 O God, my God, I have been striving for You since the dawn: my soul thirsts for You. How many times has my flesh yearned for You in a desert, impassable, and waterless land?
3 So would I appear to You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory!
4 For Your mercy is better than life; my lips will praise you.
5 Thus I will bless You in my life; in Your name I will lift up my hands.
6 Let my soul be filled with fatness and oil, and my lips may praise You with lips of joy.
7 I remembered You on my bed, in the morning I thought about You,
8 For You have become my help, and under the shelter of Your wings I will rejoice.
9 My soul clings to You, Your right hand upholds me.
10 But those who sought my soul in vain will go down to the depths of the earth,
11 They will be given over to the power of the sword, they will become prey to foxes.
12 But the king will rejoice in God, and everyone who swears by Him will be praised, for the lips of those who speak lies are stopped.
Psalm 62. Psalm 62. Text in Russian
62.1. Psalm of David when he was in the desert of Judea.
62.2. God! You are my God, I have been looking for You since the early dawn; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You in an empty, parched and waterless land,
62.3. to see Your power and Your glory, as I saw You in the sanctuary:
62.4. for Your mercy is better than life. My lips will praise You.
62.5. So I will bless You in my life; in Your name I will lift up my hands.
62.6. As my soul is satisfied with fatness and oil, and my lips praise You with a joyful voice,
62.7. when I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches,
62.8. for You are my help, and in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice;
62.9. My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
62.10. And those who seek the destruction of my soul will descend to the underworld of the earth;
62.11. they will slay them with the power of the sword; they will fall as prey to the foxes.
62.12. The king will rejoice in God, everyone who swears by Him will be praised, for the lips of those who speak lies will be stopped.
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Having fled from Saul, David came to the desert, where he lived. So, being in this desert, he composed a real psalm, in which he reveals his extraordinary love for God. He also prophesies in it about the destruction that his persecutors were about to undergo. This psalm is also appropriate for us Christians. For when we are in the desert of the sweet things of the world and have fiery love for God, then without a doubt our visible and invisible enemies will be destroyed, and will not be able to harm us at all.
This psalm also applies to the soul, which was formerly in the desert (outside) of all good, and then, by the grace of Christ, returned to good.
Interpretation of Psalm 63
Art. 2. My God, my God! morning to you.
Lord, as soon as I wake up, I run to You with my thoughts and, before starting any work, I talk with You, I pray to You and I dedicate the beginning of the day to You.
My soul thirsts for You.
David's thirst is not a worldly thirst for water, it is a sincere and strong love for God. David does not find words to express the strength of his feelings, so he looks for examples in various things, so that we too become accomplices of this love and feel it.
If my flesh is a multiplicity for You.
Repeatedly and excessively I thirst and love You, Lord! Not only is my soul filled with divine lust, but my very flesh thirsts for God when it submits its will to Him.
The land is empty, impenetrable and dry.
I love You so much, Lord, that even the impassable and waterless desert did not in the least change my love for You.
Art. 3. Thus in the holy (sanctuary) I appeared to You.
With these words, David shows that both there, in Jerusalem, when he prayed in the tabernacle, and here in the desert, he retained the same disposition and love for God!
See Your power and Your glory.
I pray in this desert, Lord, to see Your power, which will overthrow my enemies, and to see Your glory, because everyone will glorify You for Your help to those who trust in You.
Art. 4. For Thy mercy is better than life. My lips will praise Thee.
It is better to receive mercy from You, Lord, in this desert, than to spend life in luxury and enjoying bodily pleasures. For this my lips will praise You.
Art. 5. Thus I will bless You in my belly, in Your name I will lift up my hands.
Just as now I sincerely and with all my soul glorify You, being in this desert, so I will glorify You throughout my life, and only in Your name will I begin to lift up my hands in prayer. Here King David laid down a firm intention not only to bless God with words, but also to glorify Him with a virtuous life.
Art. 6. For with fatness and ointment may my soul be filled with joy and my lips praise You.
Here David portrays gratitude and mercy. Prompted by these feelings, he will praise God with joyful words.
Art. 7. If I remember You on my bed; We studied in the morning in Tya.
I sleep and close my eyes, and my memory returns to You, I open my eyes, and deep sleep does not stop the memory of You.
Art. 8. For ecu was my assistant; and in Your shelter I will rejoice.
I remember You, Lord, even when I am awake, because I have no need to remember anyone else but You. And I will rejoice under your protection.
Art. 9. My soul clings to You; Thy right hand is acceptable to me.
My soul and my heart are so attached to You that they cannot move away from the memory of You for even a short time. For such a great desire and trust, God’s power gave me help. (With these words, David prophesies about the help that the Lord will provide him, as well as about the approaching death of Saul).
Art. 10. And they sought my soul in vain; will descend into the underworld of the earth.
And the one who sought my death will go to hell.
Art. 11. They will give themselves up to arms.
Having said before that his enemies will die, David, through communication here, now speaks about how they will die, namely, that they will be delivered into the hands of weapons (armourbearers), that is, they will fall in battle.
Parts of the fox will be.
When Saul and other enemies are killed on the battlefield, then the foxes and other animals will divide them for food, as if they were left unburied.
Art. 12. The king will rejoice in God.
David calls himself king, as anointed by the command of God. So, he says that he will not rejoice over the death of his enemies (then he cried and sobbed when he learned about the death of Saul and his son Jonathan), but will rejoice in God, who protects those who love Him.
Everyone who swears by it will boast.
Subject peoples were in the habit of swearing by their king.
As if the lips of those who speak unrighteously are stopped.
The lips of the enemies who spoke lies are stopped by death, and will no longer be able to say anything against me.
62:1-4 Psalm of David when he was in the desert of Judea. 2 God! You are my God, I have been looking for You since the early dawn; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You in a desert, parched and waterless land, 3 to see Your power and Your glory, as I saw You in the sanctuary: 4 For Your mercy is better than life. My lips will praise You.David is in the Judean desert, far from his neighbors in a lifeless space, where, apart from islands of pasture on the dried-up land, there is nothing, not even sources of water (literally). But David yearns not for water, not for bread, not for the royal mansions, but for his God. And which of God's servants - how does David behave in difficult circumstances? Not many people who. That is why David was a man after God’s heart, because he did not think about earthly things, he did not rush to desire all sorts of good things for himself personally, but he hurried to God with all his thoughts and heart.
In what sense does David want to see God in the sanctuary, as he had already seen Him - if David could not have been in the sanctuary of the tabernacle (there was no temple yet, Solomon was building it), for he had never been a high priest? Either through the eyes of faith David knows that God dwells in the sanctuary, or these are the prophetic words of Jesus Christ at the moment when he was led by the spirit into the desert and talked with his Father.
62:5-7 So I will bless You in my life; in Your name I will lift up my hands. 6 As my soul is satisfied with fatness and oil, and my lips praise You with a joyful voice, 7 When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the watches of the night,
Even when David does not sleep at night - he is not sorting out his problems in his head, but thinking about how joyful it is for him to know about the God of Israel and think about Him, David is grateful to God that David has Him.
62:8,9 for You are my help, and in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice; 9 My soul clings to You; Your right hand upholds me.
David’s soul clung to God, not to man, and the king always seeks help only from Him, realizing that there is no one else to rely on in this century.
62:10-12 But those who seek the destruction of my soul will go down to the depths of the earth;
11 They will slay them with the strength of the sword; they will fall as prey to the foxes. 12 But the king will rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him will be praised, for the lips of those who speak falsehood will be stopped. David is confident that one day the state of things on earth will change and everyone who seeks the destruction of God’s servants will disappear into the grave, and lies will never again walk the earth. David and every worshiper of Jehovah will rejoice that they themselves are alive.
Why do they read Psalm 63?
The interpretation of Psalm 62 gives us an idea of the mental state of King David, who, not for the first time in his life, found himself in the position of an exile, but never once ceased to believe in the timely and wise help of God. That is why in the text of Psalm 62 he does not pray to the Creator for salvation, but with faith and hope he puts his life into His hands. And we will read this psalm in times of danger, or when our soul wants to thank God for all His mercies to us.
We read the Psalter. Psalm 62
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Conversation with Archpriest Alexy Ladygin about the Psalter.
– Dear brothers and sisters, today we will talk about the 62nd Psalm. The 62nd Psalm has the following pre-writing: a psalm to David, when he was never in the desert of Judea, 62. The psalmist David wrote this psalm while he was in the desert of Judea. There he found himself when he fled from Saul, who was pursuing him. In this psalm, David pours out his love for God... Where there is love for God, the holy fathers say, there all evil is overcome, there sorrows, sorrows, difficulties dissolve, and man remains in complacency. And you and I, dear brothers and sisters, sometimes find ourselves in the desert - in the desert of our inner spiritual state, when we feel emptiness inside, lost and insecure, when enemies surround us. And so that a person does not become discouraged, does not grieve, does not suffer at this moment, one must always understand: if at the same time he maintains love for God, then all evil is overcome. How King David himself defeated all his enemies with the love and mercy of God.
In no case should we allow even the slightest murmur against the Lord, frailty, weakness, but rather kindle great love for God, turn to Him, talk with Him, glorify Him. And then the Lord will show His great mercy, give His power, that is, strength, give strength and the opportunity to overcome all the evil that we very often encounter in our lives. After all, our life is bearing the cross, and bearing the cross is always trials, always difficulties, always pain, always wounds, always a state when we go through death. But the Lord gives us the opportunity to rise from these experiences by His Divine Power through the love that is stored in our heart.
“O God, my God, I come to You in the morning; my soul thirsts for You.” Here the psalmist David says about himself: “I get up early in the morning and always begin my day with prayer. And nothing can distract me from prayer, from this inner mood in which I glorify You.” That is why morning and evening prayers exist in our lives. Morning prayer gives us the opportunity to be with God, to ask God for blessings for the coming day, and gives us the opportunity to maintain love for God. At the same time, it shows who is the Foundation of our life, to whom we can show our submission, to whom we are grateful in our lives and to whom our heart is attached. When a person begins his day with morning prayer, then he receives God’s blessing and on this day everything works out in his life, everything works out, he brings great benefits, and if temptations are encountered, then the person, again by the power of God, overcomes them.
That’s why the psalmist says: “Every morning I get up and first of all I turn to You - I have no other thoughts, I don’t want to think about anything, I don’t want to fuss about anything, I don’t want to worry about this day. I don’t think about the experiences, deeds and problems that I will encounter on this day. I don’t even think about the necessary affairs of life: they will take care of themselves.” The most important thing is the memory of the Lord, and it is through morning prayer, when you just get up, that the memory of God is revived and gives great benefits. Just as a loving person strives for his beloved and cannot be without him, so he who loves God always strives for Him, will always find a moment to communicate with God, and will make time for prayer.
And only a person who has not yet been imbued with love for God says: “I can’t find time - I don’t have enough time: I get up in the morning - I need to clean, cook, drink coffee, not be late for the bus, need to paint my eyes, powder my nose,” and so on. That is, we always find ourselves with a lot of things to do that prevent us from remembering God and praying to Him. But a loving person will always find time, because his soul burns with love for God...
Further, the psalmist David says: “My soul thirsts for You” - my soul cannot be without You, Lord. Thirst: you and I, analyzing the previous psalm, said that when an internal thirst appears, a person’s mouth dries up, weakness and infirmity appear - he with a great desire wants to quench his thirst, and when he quenches it, he returns to a normal state. Likewise, the psalmist says: “I am in such a state that if I do not pray, I will not rest; If I don’t pray, I won’t gain a normal state for myself.” This is the kind of thirst for prayer, for communication with God, that a person should have every morning. And when we get up, we must first of all quench the thirst that we have because we have great love for God.
“Since my flesh is a multiplicity of You, in a land that is empty and impenetrable and without water.” The psalmist adds that a person consists not only of a soul, but also of a body - and the body also wants to communicate with God, which means that he must confirm his love and desire to communicate with God through visible deeds. And here, with the words of the psalmist David, every person who says: “I believe in God in my soul, and I don’t need anything else in life” is put to shame - it is not enough just to praise God with the soul, the flesh also praises Him, since it is characterized by prostrations and prayers. , fasting, good deeds, and all this together glorifies God. The psalmist David says: “In a land desolate and impassable and without water,” even in the desert he does not lose the desire to glorify God. Although waking up in the desert is not a normal state. It's hot during the day and cold at night. A person needs to think about how to feed himself in this desert. The enemy can also overtake you. And the first thought after waking up in the desert in the morning is probably: “Am I alive? what will I eat? how will I defend myself? Am I surrounded by the enemy? Is there some kind of ambush? No, even in such an unnatural, difficult state, in an empty and impassable and waterless land, the psalmist David still says: “Lord, I always remember You, because my soul cannot live without You.”
“In this way I appeared to You in holy things, to see Your power and Your glory.” In the holy place, that is, in the tabernacle of the Old Testament, there he glorified God. And just as he glorified God in the tabernacle, with the same fervor, with the same love, hope, hope, he glorifies God in the desert: his love has not changed. Circumstances have changed, but love for God has not changed. A person knows that the Lord sends trials, but if he shows firmness and maintains his trust and hope in God, then the Lord will always give him the opportunity to overcome difficulties and deliver him from the enemy, both visible and invisible. The main thing is that our love and inner state be equal, both in the sanctuary, as in the temple of God, say the holy fathers, and after the service. But when we come to the service, we are in a good mood, and joy, and grace, and tears of tenderness, here the priests serve, and the vestments - everything seems to remind us of God, and we are imbued with love for God. And when we go out into the world - into this desert, impassable and waterless, then all love for God disappears, we forget about God: we begin to live everyday life, fussing in the same way as everyone else fusses. That is, we acquire a certain duality: at home we are alone, in church we are completely different, on the street we are alone, but when we come to church we again become believers. The psalmist praises constancy here and teaches this constancy to each of us.
“For Thy mercy is better than belly: praise Thee with my lips.” The psalmist David tells us that we should rather seek mercy from God than earthly life, which is full of vanity and all kinds of lawlessness; it is nothing compared to the mercy of God, which gives us eternity. “With my lips praise Thee,” that is, we glorify God for showing us His mercy.
“Thus I will bless Thee in my belly; I will lift up my hands in Thy name.” I will bless - I will glorify the Lord in my life. Glorification is through prayer, good deeds and constant virtuous life. We as Christians would say: through the Christian life. And no matter what happens in life, we should always glorify God. What does it mean to raise your hands to the sky? We know that Aaron raised his hands to heaven when he prayed. And today's priesthood raises their hands when they say special prayers. When a priest asks the Lord for mercy not only for himself, but also for all those praying, then he raises his hands to heaven. And during prayer we should raise our hands to the sky, thereby expressing constancy and our fervent prayer.
“For my soul shall be filled with fatness and ointment, and my lips shall praise Thee with joy.” The text here is very clear, it connects with the previous verse. Naturally, good food fills our body and makes our lips rejoice. But how can my soul be filled with fat and ointment? If the previous verses speak of mercy, what should the soul be filled with? Of course, by grace. “For Thy mercy is better than the belly” - the soul is filled with mercy. The Lord makes it possible, through mercy, to receive purification, justification, and reward for a virtuous life. And from this mouth will joyfully praise the Lord with joyful words.
“As soon as I remembered You on my bed, in the morning I learned from You.” Here again the psalmist David says: “I never forget You, Lord, even when I am on my bed, when I am resting, even when I am in a dream. Let my flesh rest and sleep, but my heart is awake and always glorifies You.” The Savior said about this: “Always watch and pray, so that you do not fall into misfortune.” That is, when a person abides in God, he continues to pray and glorify God even in his sleep. “Learn in the morning in Ty” - every morning, and not only in the morning, but also at night, I will pray, Lord. On the bed - this means at night. And morning is when a person already rises from sleep.
The Holy Fathers treated sleep as a time that robs them of the opportunity to communicate with God and glorify Him. That is why many devotees of piety did not even lie down on the bed, but rested while sitting. Recently there was a commemoration of Saint John of Shanghai - he never lay down on his bed: he either sat or fell asleep on his knees in prayer for a short time, for two or three hours he gave his flesh some kind of peace (sleep is given to calm our weakness). Of course, weakness always takes its toll, and no matter how much a person strives to defeat sleep, says the Monk Theodosius of Pechersk, we will never defeat sleep: it is impossible to defeat human nature. It is necessary to rest for some time, but this time for the holy fathers was so short: they were sorry to waste time on sleep, which took away the time of prayer.
And here it becomes clear to us why, for example, the Venerable Euphrosyne of Moscow worked all day, was engaged in government affairs, and prayed at night. When did she rest? She rested for a very short time. Ora et labora - “pray and work,” said the holy fathers. When there is a combination of work and prayer, a person abides in goodness and abides in the Lord. Here the psalmist David urges us to always remember the Lord. If you love God, you always remember Him, even when you are on your bed: nothing can distract you, even at night, when your flesh is resting - you are still awake in your heart and abiding in the Lord.
“For You were my Helper, and in Your shelter I will rejoice” - You, Lord, are my Helper, I am always preserved under Your shelter. And Your blood is always a joy. Why? A person can rejoice not when he does not feel confident, not when he knows that at any moment someone can inflict a wound on him - it doesn’t matter whether you meet your enemy face to face, or he plunges a knife into your back: you are not I'm sure there is no protection. Why were fortresses built? The fortress protected people. Also, if a person loves God, the Lord helps him. The psalmist David, being in the desert, says these words; he is not afraid even in the desert, not in a fortress, because God is his Helper. Who is against God? He is in the desert under the protection of God Himself, so he is in joy, he is not sad. He has no fear, because the Lord will always protect him.
“My soul clings to You; Thy right hand accepts me.” “My soul cleaves to You, O Lord” - how much the psalmist expresses the thought with our earthly concepts and comparisons! He has become so attached to the Lord that he does not see anyone better and more faithful in this life. No one can give him such joy, consolation and peace as the Lord. He says: “My soul cleaves to You, O Lord, and with Your right hand You always protect me.” It is impossible to leave the Lord. To leave God is to remain an unprotected baby, to whom not only a warrior, but also any person, and even a wild beast, can harm, and he will not be able to protect himself. “But I cleave to You, O God, because Your right hand always protects me and guides me to righteous deeds.”
“They have sought my soul in vain; they will go down into the depths of the earth.” Here the psalmist David says: “What will happen to those who seek my life? What will happen to those who want to harm me? He said who is his friend, who protects him in this life, to whom he cleaves, to whom he has the greatest love. Well, who can now look for his soul? They do not understand in Whom David trusts. He does not trust in weapons, in soldiers, in fortress - he trusts in the Lord. How can such hope shame a person? Of course not. What will happen to these people? They will enter the underworld, the Lord will defeat such a person. At the same time, we must speak in relation to the enemy of the human race - the devil: can he defeat us when we have loved the Lord, when we have clung to the Lord with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our thoughts? Of course not. Where will the Lord send them? To the underworld of the earth. Their place will be there, and they will never be able to approach a person, they will not be able to tempt him. And if there are temptations, the Lord will abolish them by His power. What will happen next to these people? How will they descend to the underworld of the earth?
“They will give themselves up to the hands of arms, parts will be foxes” - the psalmist David with this verse says how Saul and his accomplices will be defeated: their soldiers will destroy them, they will die in war through weapons. We know that death comes in various ways - through some kind of disease, through accidents, from evil people. Death also happens through military action. We know that now there is a lot of military action and a huge number of people are dying - the value of a person is insignificant. Here the psalmist David says how Saul will die: through soldiers who will kill them with weapons. But through which warriors? “Parts of the fox will be.” Here interpreters differ a little: on the one hand, they say that they will be eaten by foxes and wild animals, and there will not even be remains of them left and there will be no memory of them. On the other hand, the holy fathers say that they will fall into the hands of warriors, but not strong warriors, but weak and cunning ones, that is, they will not be killed with dignity, but killed by the weakest and lowest people themselves. They will not only be put to death, say the holy fathers, but most importantly and fundamentally, their death itself will be inglorious: it is impossible to encroach on that person who strives to serve the Lord with all his soul and with all his heart.
“The king will rejoice in God: everyone who swears by Him will boast.” The king will rejoice in God - here we can say that King David will rejoice in God, because the Lord is his Helper. The people who, although from the pagans, accepted Christ and, due to their virtuous life, are kings, are also called royal, since all virtue is inherent in a royal person. Only a righteous person, a believer, who loves God can boast about God. The king is God's anointed, and David will boast in God. “Everyone who swears by Him will boast.” Of course, they swore by the king - usually they swear by the highest, the most sacred thing they have in life: swearing by something that has no value is meaningless. We always swore by high people, ranks, or close people who gave us life, or by the Lord Himself, as the Lord commands in the Old Testament. But this oath can really only be taken by glorious people. Therefore, “everyone who swears by Him will boast”—the King, the great King.
The psalmist David ends the psalm with these words: “For the lips of those who speak unrighteously are stopped.” The Lord conquers all evil and all unrighteousness - the mouth of a person who speaks unrighteousness will be stopped. On the one hand, his lips are blocked: he has nothing to say - he is convicted of a lie that has not achieved its goal, there is nothing to rejoice at. On the other hand, we know that the lips of the unrighteous will be stopped: the Lord deprives such a person of life, and he descends to the underworld. Naturally, after death a person cannot speak, therefore the mouth of every unrighteous person is stopped.
Our desire for spiritual life can reveal the deepest meaning of this psalm, which teaches us to love the Lord even in the most difficult situation and to be constant in our love. This, my dears, is what we should strive for. It is no coincidence that the highest commandment in our lives that the Lord gives is to love the Lord with all your heart, with all your mind and with all your soul, with all your being, and your neighbor as yourself. The first part of this commandment is very high, this is the whole Law and the Prophets, said the Lord. And how beautifully the psalmist reveals to us love for God and constancy in this love! The most important thing is to love God not only when we feel good, but also when it is difficult, when we even feel that the Lord has abandoned us.
After the revolution, the Diveyevo sisters experienced one persecution, another persecution, the monastery was closed, they were expelled from the monastery, they were expelled from the monastery. They began to wander, they were not accepted, someone was imprisoned - they became confessors. That’s when they said: “Everyone is against us: the state is against us, and the people are against us, and God is against us.” You can say so, but without losing love. You can feel a certain abandonment in this life (after all, the Lord gives trials to strengthen you in a virtuous life), but at the same time preserve your love for God. And if you maintain love for God, then the enemy is defeated, and the Lord sends consolation. And the most important thing is that the Lord will always exalt and delight such a person.
God bless you! Until next time.
Recorded by Nina Kirsanova
Reading rules
Psalm 62 is one of the psalms of the Six Psalms, which in Orthodox worship usually refers to six selected psalms sung sequentially at Matins. This moment of the church service is special; it stands out for its severity and sad sound. The situation in the temple corresponds to this: the Royal Doors are closed, the lights are turned off, the candles are extinguished; the reader comes out to the middle of the temple, and, as if on behalf of all the believers standing motionless around, pronounces the words of the psalms - a prayer of sorrow, repentance and hope. The Six Psalms are required to be read at every morning service (daily, Saturday and Sunday) throughout the year, except for the days of Bright Easter Week, this indicates its enormous importance. Orthodox interpreters, emphasizing the special significance of the Six Psalms in worship, see in it a reflection of the most significant event in the life of mankind - the coming of Christ the Savior into the world.
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