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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, “I am your salvation!” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them away! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it—to his destruction! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD, exulting in his salvation. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10All my bones shall say, “O LORD, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions! |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21They open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!” |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You have seen, O LORD; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me! |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord! |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me! |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.” |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me! |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!” |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long. |
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