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You will 1pull me out of the netwhich they have secretlylaid for me, For You are my 2strength.
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3Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have 4ransomed me, O LORD, 5God of truth.
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I hate those who 6regardvainidols, But I 7trust in the LORD.
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I will 8rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness, Because You have 9seen my affliction; You have known the troubles of my soul,
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And You have not 10given 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 11I am in distress; My 12eye is wastedaway from grief, 13my soul and my body also.
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For my life is spent with 14sorrow And my years with sighing; My 15strength has failed because of my iniquity, And 16my body has wastedaway.
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Because of all my adversaries, I have become a 17reproach, Especially to my 18neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me in the streetflee from me.
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I am 19forgotten as a deadman, out of mind; I am like a brokenvessel.
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For I have heard the 20slander of many, 21Terror is on everyside; While they 22tookcounseltogetheragainst me, They 23schemed to take away my life.
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But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD, I say, "24You are my God."
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.