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1 `The Erring One,' by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.
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1 O LORD my God, I take refuge in you; save and deliver me from all who pursue me,
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2 Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.
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2 or they will tear me like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
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3 O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,
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3 O LORD my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands--
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4 If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,
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4 if I have done evil to him who is at peace with me or without cause have robbed my foe--
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5 An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.
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5 then let my enemy pursue and overtake me; let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. "Selah"
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6 Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded:
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6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.
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7 And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back,
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7 Let the assembled peoples gather around you. Rule over them from on high;
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8 Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me,
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8 let the LORD judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity, O Most High.
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9 Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.
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9 O righteous God, who searches minds and hearts, bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure.
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10 My shield [is] on God, Saviour of the upright in heart!
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10 My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.
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11 God [is] a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times.
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11 God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath every day.
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12 If [one] turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,
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12 If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
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13 Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.
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13 He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows.
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14 Lo, he travaileth [with] iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
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14 He who is pregnant with evil and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment.
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15 A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.
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15 He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit he has made.
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16 Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
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16 The trouble he causes recoils on himself; his violence comes down on his own head.
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17 I thank Jehovah, According to His righteousness, And praise the name of Jehovah Most High!
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17 I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
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