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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I come to you for protection, O LORD my God. Save me from my persecutors—rescue me! |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3O LORD my God, if I have done wrong or am guilty of injustice, |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4if I have betrayed a friend or plundered my enemy without cause, |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5then let my enemies capture me. Let them trample me into the ground and drag my honor in the dust. Interlude |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Arise, O LORD, in anger! Stand up against the fury of my enemies! Wake up, my God, and bring justice! |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Gather the nations before you. Rule over them from on high. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The LORD judges the nations. Declare me righteous, O LORD, for I am innocent, O Most High! |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9End the evil of those who are wicked, and defend the righteous. For you look deep within the mind and heart, O righteous God. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10God is my shield, saving those whose hearts are true and right. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11God is an honest judge. He is angry with the wicked every day. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If a person does not repent, God will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He will prepare his deadly weapons and shoot his flaming arrows. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The wicked conceive evil; they are pregnant with trouble and give birth to lies. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15They dig a deep pit to trap others, then fall into it themselves. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The trouble they make for others backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their own heads. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I will thank the LORD because he is just; I will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High. |
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