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(54-1) <Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David.> (54-2) Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:
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(54-3) Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,
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(54-4) At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me.
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(54-5) My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me.
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(54-6) Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me.
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(54-7) And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest?
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(54-8) Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness.
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(54-9) I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm.
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(54-10) Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
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(54-11) Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,
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(54-12) And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.