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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1LORD, I seek refuge in you; let me never be disgraced. Save me by your righteousness. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Listen closely to me; rescue me quickly. Be a rock of refuge for me, a mountain fortress to save me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For you are my rock and my fortress; you lead and guide me for your name's sake. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You will free me from the net that is secretly set for me, for you are my refuge. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Into your hand I entrust my spirit; you have redeemed me, LORD, God of truth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I hate those who are devoted to worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I will rejoice and be glad in your faithful love because you have seen my affliction. You know the troubles of my soul |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8and have not handed me over to the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Be gracious to me, LORD, because I am in distress; my eyes are worn out from frustration--my whole being as well. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Indeed, my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my strength has failed because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I am ridiculed by all my adversaries and even by my neighbors. I am dreaded by my acquaintances; those who see me in the street run from me. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I am forgotten: gone from memory like a dead person--like broken pottery. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I have heard the gossip of many; terror is on every side. When they conspired against me, they plotted to take my life. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But I trust in you, LORD; I say, "You are my God." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The course of my life is in your power; rescue me from the power of my enemies and from my persecutors. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Make your face shine on your servant; save me by your faithful love. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17LORD, do not let me be disgraced when I call on you. Let the wicked be disgraced; let them be quiet in Sheol. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Let lying lips that arrogantly speak against the righteous in proud contempt be silenced. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19How great is your goodness that you have stored up for those who fear you and accomplished in the sight of everyone for those who take refuge in you. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20You hide them in the protection of your presence; you conceal them in a shelter from human schemes, from quarrelsome tongues. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his faithful love to me in a city under siege. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the sound of my pleading when I cried to you for help. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Love the LORD, all his faithful ones. The LORD protects the loyal, but fully repays the arrogant. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in the LORD. |
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