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because you have been my protector and helper. You have rescued my body from destruction, from the trap set by a slanderous tongue, from lips that fabricate lies. In the presence of those who stood around me,
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you were my helper. In line with your abundant mercy and your great name, you rescued me from grinding teeth prepared to devour me, from the power of those who wanted to take my life, from the many troubles that I have had,
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from choking fire all around me, from the midst of a fire that I didn't start,
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from the depths of the belly of the grave, and from a polluted tongue and lying words,
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as well as the arrowlike tongue of the unrighteous. My soul approached death, and my life was on the edge of the grave below.