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- {To the chief Musician.
A Psalm of David.} In thee, Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
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- Incline thine ear to me, deliver me speedily;
be a strong rock to me, a house of defence to save me.
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- For thou art my rock and my fortress;
and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.
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- Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me;
for thou art my strength.
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- Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah, [thou] God of truth.
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- I have hated them that observe lying vanities;
and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah.
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- I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction;
thou hast known the troubles of my soul,
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- And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.
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- Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.
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- For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing;
my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.
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- More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.
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- I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man;
I am become like a broken vessel.
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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.
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- Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah.
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