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My victory and honor come from God alone. He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me.
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O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge. Interlude
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Common people are as worthless as a puff of wind, and the powerful are not what they appear to be. If you weigh them on the scales, together they are lighter than a breath of air.
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Don’t make your living by extortion or put your hope in stealing. And if your wealth increases, don’t make it the center of your life.
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God has spoken plainly, and I have heard it many times: Power, O God, belongs to you;
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unfailing love, O Lord, is yours. Surely you repay all people according to what they have done.
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, [A Psalm] of David. Concerning "Jeduthun," See Gill on "Ps 39:1," title. Kimchi thinks this psalm was written concerning the captivity; and Jarchi twtdh le, concerning the decrees and judgments made against Israel by their enemies; and so some of their ancient expositions {d}; but it seems to have been composed by David when in distress, either through Saul and his courtiers, or by reason of the conspiracy of Absalom. Theodoret takes it to be a prophecy of the persecution of Antiochus in the times of the Maccabees.