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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long. |
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