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Give ear to my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my supplication.
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Attend to me, and answer me; I am troubled in my complaint. I am distraught
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by the noise of the enemy, because of the clamor of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.
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My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
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Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
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And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
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truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; (Selah)
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I would hurry to find a shelter for myself from the raging wind and tempest."
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Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city.
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Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;
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ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.