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(40-3) The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.
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(40-4) The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.
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(40-5) I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
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(40-6) My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?
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(40-7) And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.
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(40-8) All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.
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(40-9) They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
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(40-10) For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
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(40-11) But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise my up again: and I will requite them.
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(40-12) By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
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(40-13) But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.