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For I have heard the slander of many -- terror on every side -- when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.
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But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.
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My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.
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Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.
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Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.
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Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
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[Oh] how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men!
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Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracies of man; thou hidest them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
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Blessed be Jehovah; for he hath shewn me wondrously his loving-kindness in a strong city.
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As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
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Love Jehovah, all ye his saints. Jehovah preserveth the faithful, and plentifully requiteth the proud doer.