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To the Overseer with stringed instruments. -- An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.
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Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,
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Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.
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My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.
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Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.
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And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,
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Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.