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How great your goodness is! You have stored it up for those who have respect for you. While other people watch, you give it to those who run to you for safety.
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They are safe because you are with them. You hide them from the evil plans of their enemies. In your house you keep them safe from those who bring charges against them.
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Give praise to the Lord. He showed me his wonderful love when my enemies attacked the city I was in.
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I was afraid and said, "I've been cut off from you!" But you heard my cry for your favor. You heard me when I called out to you for help.
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Love the Lord, all of you who are faithful to him! The LORD watches over the faithful. But he completely pays back those who are proud.
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Be strong, all of you who put your hope in the Lord. Never give up.
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.