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1 God, listen to my prayer; don't avoid my request!
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Give ear to my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my supplication.
2 Pay attention! Answer me! I can't sit still while complaining. I'm beside myself
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Attend to me, and answer me; I am troubled in my complaint. I am distraught
3 over the enemy's noise, at the wicked person's racket, because they bring disaster on me and harass me furiously.
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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.
4 My heart pounds in my chest because death's terrors have reached me.
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My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 Fear and trembling have come upon me; I'm shaking all over.
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Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
6 I say to myself, I wish I had wings like a dove! I'd fly away and rest.
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And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
7 I'd run so far away! I'd live in the desert. Selah far from the rushing wind and storm.
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truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; (Selah)
8 I'd hurry to my hideout,
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I would hurry to find a shelter for myself from the raging wind and tempest."
9 Baffle them, my Lord! Confuse their language because I see violence and conflict in the city.
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Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they make their rounds on its walls, and evil and misery live inside it.
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Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;
11 Disaster lives inside it; oppression and fraud never leave the town square.
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ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.
12 It's not an enemy that is insulting me— I could handle that. It's not someone who hates me who is exalted over me— I could hide from them.
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It is not enemies who taunt me— I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me— I could hide from them.
13 No. It's you, my equal, my close companion, my good friend!
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But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend,
14 It was so pleasant when together we entered God's house with the crowd.
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with whom I kept pleasant company; we walked in the house of God with the throng.
15 Let death devastate my enemies; let them go to the grave alive because evil lives with them— even inside them!
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Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol; for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.
16 But I call out to God, and the LORD will rescue me.
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But I call upon God, and the Lord will save me.
17 At evening, morning, and midday I complain and moan so that God will hear my voice.
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Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
18 He saves me, unharmed, from my struggle, though there are many who are out to get me.
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He will redeem me unharmed from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
19 God, who is enthroned from ancient days, will hear and humble them Selah because they don't change and they don't worship God.
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God, who is enthroned from of old, (Selah) will hear, and will humble them— because they do not change, and do not fear God.
20 My friend attacked his allies, breaking his covenant.
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My companion laid hands on a friend and violated a covenant with me
21 Though his talk is smoother than butter, war is in his heart; though his words are more silky than oil, they are really drawn swords:
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with speech smoother than butter, but with a heart set on war; with words that were softer than oil, but in fact were drawn swords.
22 "Cast your burden on the LORD— he will support you! God will never let the righteous be shaken!"
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Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
23 But you, God, bring the wicked down to the deepest pit. Let bloodthirsty and treacherous people not live out even half their days. But me? I trust in you!
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But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
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