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Because of all my adversaries, I have become a 1reproach, Especially to my 2neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me in the streetflee from me.
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I am 3forgotten as a deadman, out of mind; I am like a brokenvessel.
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For I have heard the 4slander of many, 5Terror is on everyside; While they 6tookcounseltogetheragainst me, They 7schemed to take away my life.
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But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD, I say, "8You are my God."
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My 9times are in Your hand; 10Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. This psalm, according to Arama, was composed by David when in Keilah; but, according to Kimchi and others, when the Ziphites proposed to deliver him up into the hands of Saul; and who, upon their solicitations, came down and surrounded him with his army, from whom in haste he made his escape, and to which he is thought to refer in Psalm 31:22. Theodoret supposes it was written by David when he fled from Absalom, and that it has some respect in it to his sin against Uriah, in that verse.