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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High. |
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