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I would haste to find me a shelter from the raging wind and tempest."
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Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
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Day and night they go around it on its walls; and mischief and trouble are within it,
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ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its market place.
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It is not an enemy who taunts me--then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me--then I could hide from him.
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But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
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We used to hold sweet converse together; within God's house we walked in fellowship.
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Let death come upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive; let them go away in terror into their graves.
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But I call upon God; and the LORD will save me.
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Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
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He will deliver my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.