https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-ip4e4-14302b3
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…and the end times center of power…until Jesus return, that is…
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/06/12/who-and-eu-digital-health-partnership.aspx?v=1686569498 (you will need to sign up with an email address to read the article-totally with it IMHO)
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Read. World War III is apparently underway.
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https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-xizkz-142beb5
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https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-tpj3f-142aebf
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https://give.do/blog/abhoy-mission-caring-for-the-elderly-and-disabled-children/
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https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-bu9qx-1429677
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https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-gfyyj-142771f
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https://www.theedadvocate.org/its-a-snap-4-ways-to-use-music-with-special-needs-students/
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By Stan Szymanski
On June 30, 2023 the financial world changes. On that date all derivatives and credit contracts that were based on the LIBOR (London Interbank Offer Rate) that have not already switched, will begin using the SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) as the new standard rate on which to base financial contracts upon. The risks to the financial system can be summarized thusly:
…’Transitioning to a new benchmark rate is difficult, as there are trillions of dollars worth of LIBOR-based contracts outstanding and some of these are not set to mature until the LIBOR’s retirement. That includes the widely used three-month U.S. dollar LIBOR, which has approximately $200 trillion of debt and contracts tied to it.’… (Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) Definition and History). According to a May 2023 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Report…’many older contracts only have fallbacks appropriate for a temporary outage of LIBOR rather than its permanent cessation, and some contracts do not have any fallbacks at all.’…
So long story short, the transition of all dollar based derivative and credit contracts from LIBOR to SOFR involves at a minimum, hundreds of Trillions of Dollars of arrangements that will be trying to find some sort of market value on and after June 30, 2023. There is no firm tried and true pathway of conversion of valuation regarding the aforementioned massive quantity of financial instruments which will happen roughly at the same time. This, IMHO, will pose a significant risk to the viability of the western financial system. Only a few weeks after the cessation of the publication of LIBOR (12/31/21) and coinciding with the start of the Ukrainian war one can see the stair step higher of the ‘Risk Free Rate (SOFR). In my opinion, this rise in rates highlights the increase in risk and also is an attempt by market forces (and the powers that be: Fed/US Treasury/ International bodies) to find a more realistic ‘cost of money’ in the opaque world of derivatives where we will see-the elite write their own rules.
What is a Derivative?
…’The term derivative refers to a type of financial contract whose value is dependent on an underlying asset, group of assets, or benchmark. A derivative is set between two or more parties that can trade on an exchange or over-the-counter (OTC).’…(Investopedia)
So because of the transition from the use of LIBOR to SOFR the derivatives that are of particular interest at this time are the ones that are dollar denominated.
According to JP Morgan:
…’Regulators around the globe have developed more robust and transaction-based risk-free rates (RFRs) that are compliant with IOSCO financial benchmark standards for almost $400 trillion of wholesale and consumer products. ’…
These ‘Risk-free Rates’ (RFR) are supposed to be more ‘real world’ because they are based on transactions instead of being set by 16 international member banks as LIBOR was (is).
What is recognized as a ‘Risk-Free Rate (RFR)?
…’The risk-free rate of return is the theoretical rate of return of an investment with zero risk. The risk-free rate represents the interest an investor would expect from an absolutely risk-free investment over a specified period of time. …’In practice, the risk-free rate of return does not truly exist, as every investment carries at least a small amount of risk.’…’If you are finding a proxy for the risk-free rate of return, you must consider the investor's home market.’… ‘Different countries and economic zones use different benchmarks as their risk-free rate. The interest rate on a three-month U.S. Treasury bill (T-bill) is often used as the risk-free rate for U.S.-based investors.(Investopedia)
SOFR, representing loans backed by Treasury bonds (T-bonds), (Bills, Notes and Bonds posted as collateral in the Treasury Repo market-this note added) is a virtually risk-free rate. (SOFR Definition and History)
On March 27, 2023 the ISDA posted an article to its website entitled ‘The Final LIBOR Hurdle’ by ISDA Chief Executive Officer Scott O'Malia. In the article, Mr. O’Malia makes an interesting and salient point:
…’the volume of US dollar LIBOR derivatives far exceeds the amount linked to the other LIBOR currencies. While firms now have a tried-and-tested playbook, it means there is an extra level of complexity associated with this transition that requires close attention.’…
So the ‘US Dollar LIBOR derivatives far exceeds the amount linked to the other LIBOR currencies’. This means that the act of conversion of the US Dollar LIBOR derivatives from LIBOR to SOFR will have the biggest impact to the markets.
The ISDA also published an ‘IBOR Fallback Rate Adjustment Rule Book’-A 25 page pdf that describes the machinations of calculating the ‘spread’. The spread (Fallback Rate Adjustment) is the variable amount of payout that allows for uncertainty over and above the RFR (Risk Free Rate). In addition to the profound calculations found within the document, I found that according to the ISDA, that on a day that the most is happening (the occurrence of a ‘Market Disruption Event’) that day will not be considered a ‘business day’:
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Section 5. General Rules
5.1 Consequences of a Market Disruption Event
…’If, on any day, a Market Disruption Event occurs or is occurring, the Adjustment Services Vendor shall treat the day(s) upon which the value(s) of any Underlying Rate, or any other price or necessary information for purposes of calculating the Rate Adjustment is unavailable or during which it is otherwise unable to perform the requisite calculations, as not constituting a Business Day(s).‘…(IBOR Fallback Rate Adjustment Rule Book)
I am not a math wiz by any means. However, I have a hunch that if a big enough ‘Market Disruption Event’ occurs during the application of these rules, it would be enough to shut down or destroy the derivatives markets. Otherwise, why wouldn’t they call it a business day? If they can get away with not calling a business day like say, October 19, 1987 was a business day-well then we would have never had a market crash of 22% in one day.
Why didn’t Alan Greenspan think of just calling 10/19/1987 ‘not a business day’? Then, he wouldn’t have had to inject all that money into the system to keep it going! I’m glad that the people running things today have so much more common sense (sarcasm off).
If the holders of derivatives contracts didn’t have the option of invoking ‘not a business day’ and had to perform the calculation for the ‘spread’ and the spread did not cover the difference then, in my view, the derivative contract fails.
If you think that the elite who trade ‘not cleared’ derivatives (trades that are just between two parties and they like it that way) can only get creative with their workweek-think again!
In 2020 the ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc) Issued a document: ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol (IBOR Fallbacks Protocol) FAQs that offered ‘guidance’ to many questions when it comes to the use of the RFR and the additional spreads as it pertains to the conversion of derivatives contracts use of LIBOR to SOFR in their documents and the real world implications of such. Unbelievably, ‘parties can bilaterally agree to preserve bespoke provisions (emphasis added) in their Protocol Covered Documents’:
…’As explained in Question 12 (Can parties agree bilaterally to amend the terms or scope of the IBOR Fallbacks Protocol?), parties can bilaterally agree to preserve bespoke provisions in their Protocol Covered Documents that would otherwise be amended pursuant to the IBOR Fallbacks Protocol. Parties should carefully consider whether the IBOR Fallbacks Protocol will override or otherwise amend bespoke provisions in their Protocol Covered Documents and seek advice from professional advisors as required.’…(ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol (IBOR Fallbacks Protocol) FAQs)
So in the end-after all of the steps to try to maintain order as the world precariously makes the shift from LIBOR to SOFR in the 400 Trillion (or do I mean Quintillion) dollar derivatives market, the elite, the ‘Powers That Be’-The ‘Masters of the Universe’ can and will do what they have always done…WHATEVER THE HELL THEY WANT TO!
Many traders and pundits today think that rates in the short end of the US Treasury market have gone up because there is an increasing rate of default of the United States debt. There is some truth to that especially in light of a recent U. S. CDS (Credit Default Swap) print of about 160-about where it was when Lehman went down in 2008.
But if that is the case, why are the rates on the 10 year and 30 year bond not going -substantially higher (and prices lower)- when the market starts believing en masse that the governments won’t be able to pay its bills? Who would put a bid under that bond?
Is the Federal Reserve really using its moral suasion to ‘fight inflation’ and push the Fed Funds Rate above 5%? In reality is it possible that the Fed is not pushing short rates higher to fight and extinguish inflation but is pricing a bigger return, a higher interest for the ‘Risk Free Rate’ portion of the to those settling derivatives trades?
Remember that …’the volume of US dollar LIBOR derivatives far exceeds the amount linked to the other LIBOR currencies’…A ‘risk-free’ interest rate of 5% of US T bills is anything but ‘risk free’ and where almost no other (I believe there may be one) county’s RFR has gone up in a graduated fashion such as the US since the beginning of the Ukrainian war and just 7 weeks after the cessation of derivatives contracts issued with any mention of LIBOR: ycharts
The ‘Risk-Free Rate (SOFR)’ plus the ‘spread (the ISDA Fallbacks protocol)’ is really just a ‘best guess’ at fudging the real value of derivatives contracts.
I believe it is quite possible that short term US rates are high because they, as the ‘Risk-Free Rate’, compensate the massive derivatives market for the new risks they are taking in the conversion of their contracts from LIBOR to SOFR. Especially considering that the IBOR Fallback Rate Adjustment Rule Book allows they system to take a day off (‘not constituting a business day’) in the event of a ‘Market Disruption Event’ (a default, a nuclear event, declaration of war, market crash, etc…). I think that it may even be possible that a market day outside of a standard deviation of their amazing calculations might be enough to invoke a ‘not constituting a business day’ provision for them to try to save their hind ends.
The elite change the rules (LIBOR to SOFR), give themselves the right to rewrite history (not constituting a business day) and the ability to maintain their ‘bespoke’ provisions (after changing the rules) with their partners in skullduggery-whomever has the other side of their trade.
We know that basically, all markets are rigged. But when they actually start to write it down, we can be pretty sure that they have -completely- lost their minds as they lose the rest of the world (and their influence) to the BRICS nations. The ‘Masters of the Universe’ are backed into a corner and trying not to lose their collective shirt.
Watch out for the next weekday that is ruled as ‘not constituting a business day’.
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A bespoke fitting indeed…
By Stan Szymanski
On June 30, 2023 the financial world changes. On that date all contracts that were based on the LIBOR (London Interbank Offer Rate) that have not already switched, will begin using the SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) as the new standard rate on which to base financial contracts upon. While SOFR is becoming the yardstick rate for dollar-denominated derivatives and loans, other countries have desired their own substitute rates, such as SONIA (Sterling Overnight Index Average) and EONIA (Euro Overnight Index Average).
The changeover from LIBOR to SOFR started in April 2018 when the Federal Reserve began to publish the SOFR.
Benchmark rates such as SOFR (and the soon to be defunct, LIBOR) play a crucial role in the derivatives market as especially in regard to Interest Rate Swaps:
…’Interest rate swaps usually involve the exchange of a fixed interest rate for a floating rate, or vice versa, to reduce or increase exposure to fluctuations in interest rates or to obtain a marginally lower interest rate than would have been possible without the swap.’…(Investopedia)
What is a Derivative?
…’The term derivative refers to a type of financial contract whose value is dependent on an underlying asset, group of assets, or benchmark. A derivative is set between two or more parties that can trade on an exchange or over-the-counter (OTC).’…(Investopedia)
So because of the transition from the use of LIBOR to SOFR the derivatives that are of particular interest at this time are the ones that are dollar denominated.
According to JP Morgan:
…’Regulators around the globe have developed more robust and transaction-based risk-free rates (RFRs) that are compliant with IOSCO financial benchmark standards for almost $400 trillion of wholesale and consumer products. ’…
These ‘Risk-free Rates’ (RFR) are supposed to be more ‘real world’ because they are based on transactions instead of being set by 16 international member banks as LIBOR was (is).
What is recognized as a ‘Risk-Free Rate (RFR)?
…’The risk-free rate of return is the theoretical rate of return of an investment with zero risk. The risk-free rate represents the interest an investor would expect from an absolutely risk-free investment over a specified period of time. …’In practice, the risk-free rate of return does not truly exist, as every investment carries at least a small amount of risk.’…’If you are finding a proxy for the risk-free rate of return, you must consider the investor's home market.’… ‘Different countries and economic zones use different benchmarks as their risk-free rate. The interest rate on a three-month U.S. Treasury bill (T-bill) is often used as the risk-free rate for U.S.-based investors.
On March 27, 2023 the ISDA posted an article to its website entitled ‘The Final LIBOR Hurdle’ by ISDA Chief Executive Officer Scott O'Malia. In the article, Mr. O’Malia makes an interesting and salient point:
…’the volume of US dollar LIBOR derivatives far exceeds the amount linked to the other LIBOR currencies. While firms now have a tried-and-tested playbook, it means there is an extra level of complexity associated with this transition that requires close attention.’…
So the ‘US Dollar LIBOR derivatives far exceeds the amount linked to the other LIBOR currencies’. This means that the act of conversion of the US Dollar LIBOR derivatives from LIBOR to SOFR will have the biggest impact to the markets.
The ISDA also published an ‘IBOR Fallback Rate Adjustment Rule Book’-A 25 page pdf that describes the machinations of calculating the ‘spread’. The spread (Fallback Rate Adjustment) is the variable amount of payout that allows for uncertainty over and above the RFR (Risk Free Rate). In addition to the profound calculations found within the document, I found that according to the ISDA, that on a day that the most is happening (the occurrence of a ‘Market Disruption Event’) that day will not be considered a ‘business day’:
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Section 5. General Rules
5.1 Consequences of a Market Disruption Event
…’If, on any day, a Market Disruption Event occurs or is occurring, the Adjustment Services Vendor shall treat the day(s) upon which the value(s) of any Underlying Rate, or any other price or necessary information for purposes of calculating the Rate Adjustment is unavailable or during which it is otherwise unable to perform the requisite calculations, as not constituting a Business Day(s).‘…(IBOR Fallback Rate Adjustment Rule Book)
I am not a math wiz by any means. However, I have a hunch that if a big enough ‘Market Disruption Event’ occurs during the application of these rules, it would be enough to shut down or destroy the derivatives markets. Otherwise, why wouldn’t they call it a business day? If they can get away with not calling a business day like say, October 19, 1987 was a business day-well then we would have never had a market crash of 22% in one day.
Why didn’t Alan Greenspan think of just calling 10/19/1987 ‘not a business day’? Then, he wouldn’t have had to inject all that money into the system to keep it going! I’m glad that the people running things today have so much more common sense (sarcasm off).
If the holders of derivatives contracts didn’t have the option of invoking ‘not a business day’ and had to perform the calculation for the ‘spread’ and the spread did not cover the difference then, in my view, the derivative contract fails
If you think that the elite who trade ‘not cleared’ derivatives (trades that are just between two parties and they like it that way) can only get creative with their workweek-think again!
In 2020 the ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc) Issued a document: ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol (IBOR Fallbacks Protocol) FAQs that offered ‘guidance’ to many questions when it comes to the use of the RFR and the additional spreads as it pertains to the conversion of derivatives contracts use of LIBOR to SOFR in their documents and the real world implications of such. Unbelievably, ‘parties can bilaterally agree to preserve bespoke provisions (emphasis added) in their Protocol Covered Documents’:
…’As explained in Question 12 (Can parties agree bilaterally to amend the terms or scope of the IBOR Fallbacks Protocol?), parties can bilaterally agree to preserve bespoke provisions in their Protocol Covered Documents that would otherwise be amended pursuant to the IBOR Fallbacks Protocol. Parties should carefully consider whether the IBOR Fallbacks Protocol will override or otherwise amend bespoke provisions in their Protocol Covered Documents and seek advice from professional advisors as required.’…(ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol (IBOR Fallbacks Protocol) FAQs)
So in the end-after all of the steps to try to maintain order as the world precariously makes the shift from LIBOR to SOFR in the 400 Trillion (or do I mean Quintillion) dollar derivatives market, the elite, the ‘Powers That Be’-The ‘Masters of the Universe’ can and will do what they have always done…WHATEVER THE HELL THEY WANT TO!
Many traders and pundits today think that rates in the short end of the US Treasury market have gone up because there is an increasing rate of default of the United States debt. There is some truth to that especially in light of a recent U. S. CDS (Credit Default Swap) print of about 160-about where it was when Lehman went down in 2008.
But if that is the case, why are the rates on the 10 year and 30 year bond not going -substantially higher (and prices lower)- when the market starts believing en masse that the governments won’t be able to pay its bills? Who would put a bid under that bond?
Is the Federal Reserve really using its moral suasion to ‘fight inflation’ and push the Fed Funds Rate above 5%? In reality is it possible that the Fed is not pushing short rates higher to fight and extinguish inflation but is pricing a bigger return, a higher interest for the ‘Risk Free Rate’ portion of the to those settling derivatives trades?
Remember that …’the volume of US dollar LIBOR derivatives far exceeds the amount linked to the other LIBOR currencies’…A ‘risk-free’ interest rate of 5% of US T bills is anything but ‘risk free’ and where almost no other (I believe there may be one) county’s RFR has gone up in a graduated fashion such as the US since the beginning of the Ukrainian war and just 7 weeks after the cessation of derivatives contracts issued with any mention of LIBOR: ycharts
I believe it is quite possible that short term US rates are high because they, as the ‘Risk-Free Rate’, compensate the massive derivatives market for the new risks they are taking in the conversion of their contracts from LIBOR to SOFR. Especially considering that the IBOR Fallback Rate Adjustment Rule Book allows they system to take a day off (‘not constituting a business day’) in the event of a ‘Market Disruption Event’ (a default, a nuclear event, declaration of war, market crash, etc…). I think that it may even be possible that a market day outside of a standard deviation of their amazing calculations might be enough to invoke a ‘not constituting a business day’ provision for them to try to save their hind ends.
The elite change the rules (LIBOR to SOFR), give themselves the right to rewrite history (not constituting a business day) and the ability to maintain their ‘bespoke’ provisions (after changing the rules) with their partners in skullduggery-whomever has the other side of their trade.
We know that basically, all markets are rigged. But when they actually start to write it down, we can be pretty sure that they have -completely- lost their minds as they lose the rest of the world (and their influence) to the BRICS nations. The ‘Masters of the Universe’ are backed into a corner and trying not to lose their collective shirt.
Watch out for the next weekday that is ruled as ‘not constituting a business day’.
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This is a repost. This article was originally posted to The Encouraging Angels Blog on May 31, 2022.
By Stan Szymanski
My wife and I went to visit and honor my Dad at his marker in the cemetery today. He passed 19 years ago and he and his fellow deceased veterans were remembered for Memorial Day with special flags and touchstones to commemorate their service to our country.
Stanley J. Szymanski, first American born son (1918) to his Polish immigrant family, enlisted after the events of Pearl Harbor. He trained at Fort Dix. Stan went to Mexico with his new Army buddies on leave and got his first hangover and dysentery all at the same time.
My father literally fought his way (with the help of the U.S. Army) across the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. This personal campaign included stops in the Philippines, New Guinea, Luzon and Leyte, just to name a few places in his tropical engagements.
My dad and his company saw a lot of action and he carried most of those experiences quietly with him during the rest of his 84 years to his final rest.
Dad made note of one South Pacific engagement in particular. His company had been sent to a small island to engage the Japanese and they took up position a few miles from those of the land or the rising sun.
The men had to ford a stream that was approximately chest high so they formed a chain to safely cross the water. The water was rapid; the string of men broke and my father was sent hurtling downstream.
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As he was thrown violently to and fro by the whitewater, he jettisoned his pack, then his rifle and belt. He finally was able to halt his horrendous ride and get onshore a few miles down river. As he crawled ashore, artillery started to fall just above his location. He looked across the tributary and saw a number of the men in his platoon waving frantically for him to run to them. My father had beached himself literally underneath a Japanese position. When the chain had broken in the river, one of the men ran back to their base, told the leadership what had happened and they called in an artillery strike so that the men would have a chance to retrieve Stan.
If not for God’s hand and an accurate artillery barrage, I really do not think that I would be here to write this as the chances of my father making it out of that situation and eventually starting a family would be slim.
Later in the operation in the Pacific and specifically after the battle in Leyete in 1945, P.F.C. Szymanski had a chance to go home on leave for a few weeks. But it depended on he and another soldier drawing lots for a seat on the ship. After drawing his lot, he said that he felt that his luck was so bad that he just turned and left to take a leak in the bamboo. To his shock the commander came to find him to tell him that he was the winner and that he would get a few weeks home on leave.
While he was on the ship in the Gulf of Leyte waiting to cast off, the U.S. dropped the first nuclear weapon on Japan which meant that Stanley J. Szymanski was going home for good.
The U.S. Servicemen and women who fought not only in WW2 but in all wars since then did not necessarily have good luck or bad luck. What they shared in common was a love of country and a fierce commitment to those whom they fought with to protect the lives of their friends and to accomplish their mission.
The fact that despite all of the impending totalitarianism that has been foisted on the American people as of late (and with more in store), we can make up our mind to walk and act as a free people and to fight fiercely for our family and friends to keep, restore and maintain the freedom that the forefathers of this country envisioned for us.
This commitment is what motivated men like my father to enlist to not figuratively but actually to fight for America’s freedom when we were attacked. Today, America is being attracted from all sides in a very different type of warfare. Impending famine and attack in our food supply-oil, gasoline and diesel prices that have all doubled-sky high home prices and rent-lethal untested injections that have killed tens of thousands and injured more than a million people and despots who try to pass legislation take away our rights. This war against America is designed to take our God-given rights and to extinguish us as a free people.
The next time you are at a cemetery and see the grave of a veteran ask yourself if you can muster the same gumption that they did to fight the fight for the freedom and survival of a nation by resisting tyranny where we might once again have freedom, life and liberty for all.
My father was not a Godly man in any way until the very end of his life, but he prayed -many times- while he was in the midst of battle; especially hand to hand combat. Dad did not carry the standard knife issued by the Army. His father was college educated in Krakow but during the depression used his skills as a blacksmith to work in the mills in Pittsburgh in order to pay the bills. He made my father a knife that Dad would carry throughout his entire time in the Pacific theatre. It was perfectly balanced and could cut a limb off of a tree that was as thick as your wrist with one swing.
In the attack that is now put upon America, we all need weapons with which to strike the enemy that is offered to us by our Heavenly Father-prayer and God’s Word. If you are not a Godly person and are not praying for help to fight and for God’s provision it is because you are not in the fight; you are most likely asleep.
Your enemies are upon you. Sometimes you are in water that is chest high. Sometimes you are cast into the midst of an enemy position. Sometimes you are engaged in the one of the most epic battles of the war (in my Dad’s case, Leyte). Although I could share many scriptures with you on this subject, today I share Psalm 3 with you that you, through the power of God, may take the fight to the enemy:
1 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
3 But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
4 I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me.
6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
7 Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah. (Psalm 3, KJV)
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