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1 Lord my God, I trust in you for protection. Save me and rescue me from those who are chasing me.
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O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2 Otherwise, like a lion they will tear me apart. They will rip me to pieces, and no one can save me.
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lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
3 Lord my God, what have I done? Have my hands done something wrong?
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O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,
4 Have I done wrong to my friend or stolen without reason from my enemy?
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if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,
5 If I have, let my enemy chase me and capture me. Let him trample me into the dust and bury me in the ground.Selah
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let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
6 Lord, rise up in your anger; stand up against my enemies' anger. Get up and demand fairness.
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Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
7 Gather the nations around you and rule them from above.
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Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.
8 Lord, judge the people. Lord, defend me because I am right, because I have done no wrong, God Most High.
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The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
9 God, you do what is right. You know our thoughts and feelings. Stop those wicked actions done by evil people, and help those who do what is right.
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Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous—you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!
10 God protects me like a shield; he saves those whose hearts are right.
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My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
11 God judges by what is right, and God is always ready to punish the wicked.
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God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
12 If they do not change their lives, God will sharpen his sword; he will string his bow and take aim.
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If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
13 He has prepared his deadly weapons; he has made his flaming arrows.
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he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.
14 There are people who think up evil and plan trouble and tell lies.
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Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
15 They dig a hole to trap others, but they will fall into it themselves.
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He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.
16 They will get themselves into trouble; the violence they cause will hurt only themselves.
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His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.
17 I praise the Lord because he does what is right. I sing praises to the Lord Most High. For the director of music. On the gittith. A psalm of David.
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I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.