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- {To the chief Musician.
A Psalm of David.} Blessed is he that understandeth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.
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- Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive;
he shall be made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
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- Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of languishing: thou turnest all his bed in his sickness.
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- As for me, I said, Jehovah, be gracious unto me: heal my soul;
for I have sinned against thee.
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- Mine enemies wish me evil: When will he die, and his name perish?
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- And if one come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood;
his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].
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- All that hate me whisper together against me;
against me do they devise my hurt.
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- A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him;
and now that he is laid down, he will rise up no more.
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- Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.
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- But thou, Jehovah, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
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- By this I know that thou delightest in me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
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- But as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
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- Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, from eternity to eternity!
Amen, and Amen.
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