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1Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly; Be to me a 2rock of strength, A stronghold to save me.
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For You are my rock and 3my fortress; For 4Your name'ssake You will lead me and guide me.
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You will 5pull me out of the netwhich they have secretlylaid for me, For You are my 6strength.
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7Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have 8ransomed me, O LORD, 9God of truth.
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I hate those who 10regardvainidols, But I 11trust in the LORD.
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I will 12rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness, Because You have 13seen my affliction; You have known the troubles of my soul,
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And You have not 14given me over into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a largeplace.
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Be gracious to me, O LORD, for 15I am in distress; My 16eye is wastedaway from grief, 17my soul and my body also.
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For my life is spent with 18sorrow And my years with sighing; My 19strength has failed because of my iniquity, And 20my body has wastedaway.
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Because of all my adversaries, I have become a 21reproach, Especially to my 22neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me in the streetflee from me.
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I am 23forgotten as a deadman, out of mind; I am like a brokenvessel.
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.