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I would quickly find me a shelter from the raging wind and storm."
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Confuse, Adonai, confound their speech! For I see violence and fighting in the city.
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Day and night they go about its walls; within are malice and mischief.
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Ruin is rife within it, oppression and fraud never leave its streets.
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For it was not an enemy who insulted me; if it had been, I could have borne it. It was not my adversary who treated me with scorn; if it had been, I could have hidden myself.
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But it was you, a man of my own kind, my companion, whom I knew well.
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We used to share our hearts with each other; in the house of God we walked with the crowd.
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May he put death on them; let them go down alive to Sh'ol; for evil is in their homes and also in their hearts.
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But I will call on God, and ADONAI will save me.
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Evening, morning and noon I complain and moan; but he hears my voice.
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He redeems me and gives me peace, so that no one can come near me. For there were many who fought me.