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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1LORD, my God, I seek refuge in you. Deliver me from those who persecute me! Rescue me! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Otherwise, they will rip me to shreds like a lion, tearing me apart with no one to rescue me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3LORD, my God, if I have done this thing, if there is injustice on my hands, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4if I have rewarded those who did me good with evil, if I have plundered my enemy without justification, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5then, let my enemy pursue me, let him overtake me, and let him trample my life to the ground. Interlude Let him put my honor into the dust. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Get up, LORD, in your anger! Rise up, because of the fury of my enemies; Arouse yourself for me; you have ordained justice. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Let the assembly of the peoples gather around you, and you will sit high above them. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For the LORD will judge the peoples. Judge me according to my righteousness, LORD, and according to my integrity, Exalted One. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous. For you are the righteous God who discerns the inner thoughts. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10God is my shield, the one who delivers the upright in heart. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11God is a righteous judge, a God who is angry with sinners every day. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If the ungodly one doesn't repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and prepare it. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He prepares weapons of death for himself, he makes his arrows into fiery shafts. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But the wicked one travails with evil, he conceives malice and gives birth to lies. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He digs a pit, even excavates it; then he fell into the hole that he had made. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The trouble he planned will return on his own head, and his violence will descend on his skull. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But as for me, I will praise the LORD for his righteousness, and I will sing to the name of the LORD Most High. |
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