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huic David intellectus beati quorum remissae sunt iniquitates et quorum tecta sunt peccata
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beatus vir cui non inputabit Dominus peccatum nec est in spiritu eius dolus
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quoniam tacui inveteraverunt ossa mea dum clamarem tota die
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quoniam die ac nocte gravata est super me manus tua conversus sum in aerumna *mea; dum configitur %mihi; spina diapsalma
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delictum meum cognitum *tibi; feci et iniustitiam meam non abscondi dixi confitebor adversus me iniustitiam meam Domino et tu remisisti impietatem peccati mei diapsalma
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pro hac orabit ad te omnis sanctus in tempore oportuno verumtamen in diluvio aquarum multarum ad eum non adproximabunt
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tu es refugium meum a tribulatione quae circumdedit me exultatio mea erue me a circumdantibus me diapsalma
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intellectum tibi dabo et instruam te in via hac qua gradieris firmabo super te oculos meos
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nolite fieri sicut equus et mulus quibus non est intellectus in camo et freno maxillas eorum constringe qui non adproximant ad te
To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. This psalm, according to Arama, was composed by David when in Keilah; but, according to Kimchi and others, when the Ziphites proposed to deliver him up into the hands of Saul; and who, upon their solicitations, came down and surrounded him with his army, from whom in haste he made his escape, and to which he is thought to refer in Psalm 31:22. Theodoret supposes it was written by David when he fled from Absalom, and that it has some respect in it to his sin against Uriah, in that verse.