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- {Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Jehovah, concerning the words of Cush the Benjaminite.}
Jehovah my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me;
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- Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.
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- Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands;
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- If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me;
(indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;)
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- Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take [it], and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust.
Selah.
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- Arise, Jehovah, in thine anger;
lift thyself up against the raging of mine oppressors, and awake for me: thou hast commanded judgment.
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- And the assembly of the peoples shall encompass thee;
and for their sakes return thou on high.
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- Jehovah shall minister judgment to the peoples.
Judge me, Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity which is in me.
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- Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous [man];
even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.
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- My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart.
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- God is a righteous judge, and a God who is indignant all the day.
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- If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword;
he hath bent his bow and made it ready,
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- And he hath prepared for him instruments of death;
his arrows hath he made burning.
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- Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood:
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- He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.
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- His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
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- I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and will sing forth the name of Jehovah the Most High.
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