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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Argue my case, LORD, against those who argue against me. Fight against those who fight against me. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Take up the buckler and the shield, and rise up to help me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Take out the spear and the ax to confront the one who pursues me; say to me, "I am your deliverer!" |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Let those who seek my life be ashamed and disgraced; let those who plot evil against me be driven back and confounded. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Make them like the chaff before the wind, as the messenger of the LORD pushes them aside. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6May their path be dark and slippery, as the messenger of the LORD tracks them down. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Without justification they laid a snare for me; without justification they dug a pit to trap me. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let destruction come upon them unawares, and let the net that he hid catch him; let him fall into destruction. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9My soul will rejoice in the LORD and be glad in his deliverance. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10All my bones will say, "LORD, who is like you? Who delivers the weak from the one who is stronger than he, and the weak and the needy from the one who wants to rob him?" |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11False witnesses stepped forward and questioned me concerning things about which I knew nothing. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They paid me back evil for good; my soul mourns. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But when they were sick, I wore sackcloth, humbled myself with fasting, and prayed from my heart repeatedly for them. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I paced about as for my friend or my brother, and fell down mourning as one weeps for one's mother. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me— attackers whom I did not know. They tore me apart and would not stop. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Malicious mockers — they gnashed their teeth against me. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Lord, how long will you just watch? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from these young lions. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then I will give you thanks in front of the great congregation; in the midst of the mighty throng I will praise you. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Do not let my deceitful enemies gloat over me, nor let those who hate me without justification mock me with their eyes. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For they do not speak peace; they devise clever lies against the peaceful people of the land. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21They open their mouth wide against me, claiming, "Yes! Yes! We saw him do it with our own eyes!" |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You see this, LORD, so do not be silent. Lord, do not be far from me! |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Wake up! Arouse yourself to vindicate me and argue my case, my God and my Lord. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Judge me according to your righteousness, LORD my God! But do not let them gloat over me. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Don't let them say in their hearts, "Yes! We got what we wanted." Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up." |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Instead, let those who gloat over the evil directed against me be ashamed and confounded together; Let those who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and dishonor. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Let those who delight in my vindication shout for joy and rejoice! Let them continuously say, "Magnify the LORD, who delights in giving peace to his servant." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28My tongue will declare your righteousness and praise you all day long. |
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