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And You have not 1given 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 2I am in distress; My 3eye is wastedaway from grief, 4my soul and my body also.
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For my life is spent with 5sorrow And my years with sighing; My 6strength has failed because of my iniquity, And 7my body has wastedaway.
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Because of all my adversaries, I have become a 8reproach, Especially to my 9neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me in the streetflee from me.
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I am 10forgotten as a deadman, out of mind; I am like a brokenvessel.
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For I have heard the 11slander of many, 12Terror is on everyside; While they 13tookcounseltogetheragainst me, They 14schemed to take away my life.
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But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD, I say, "15You are my God."
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My 16times are in Your hand; 17Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
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Make Your 18face to shine upon Your servant; 19Save me in Your lovingkindness.
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Let me not be 20put to shame, O LORD, for I call upon You; Let the 21wicked be put to shame, let them 22be silent in Sheol.
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Let the 23lyinglips be mute, Which 24speakarrogantlyagainst the righteous With pride and contempt.
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.