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from choking fire all around me, from the midst of a fire that I didn't start,
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from the depths of the belly of the grave, and from a polluted tongue and lying words,
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as well as the arrowlike tongue of the unrighteous. My soul approached death, and my life was on the edge of the grave below.
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People surrounded me on every side, and no one helped; I looked for assistance from human beings, and there was none.
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Then I remembered your mercy, Lord, and your charity from long ago, that you raise up those who wait for you and save them from the hands of the wicked.