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Of◦ David.
Strive··, O Jehovah, ·with those who strive··with me;
fight those who fight me.
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Hold··firm the shield and buckler,
and rise··up in my help;
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and unsheathe the spear, and shut the way of meeting those who pursue me;
say to my soul, I◦ am thy salvation.
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Let those be··ashamed and humiliated who seek my soul;
let those be turned··away backward and blush who think evil against me.
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Let them be as chaff before the wind,
and the angel of Jehovah thrusting them.
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Let their way be darkness and flatteries,
and the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
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For without··cause have they concealed for me a ditch, their net,
without··cause have they dug for my soul.
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Let vastation come··into him
when he knows not;
and let his net that he has concealed, capture himself;
with vastation let him fall in it.
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And my soul shall rejoice in Jehovah;
it shall have··joy in His salvation;
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all my bones shall say,
Jehovah, who is like▵ Thee,
rescuing the afflicted one from him who is firmer than he,
and the afflicted and the needy one from him who robs him?
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Violent witnesses rise··up;
they ask me of things that I know not.
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They repay me evil instead of good,
a bereavement to my soul.
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And I◦, when they were··sick,
made my clothing sackcloth;
I afflicted my soul with fasting,
and my prayer returned upon my bosom.
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I walked··about as though he were a companion, as though a brother to me;
as he who mourns for a mother, in··black I bowed··down,
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but in my limping they were··glad,
and they were gathered together;
the crippled were gathered together against me, and I knew not;
they did rend and were· not ·still:
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with hypocrites, jesters at feasts*,
they gnashed· upon me ·with their teeth.
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Lord, how··long wilt Thou see?
Turn··back my soul from their vastations, my only··one from the young··lions.
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I will confess Thee in an assembly of many;
I will··praise Thee among◦ a numerous people.
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Let not those who are wrongfully* my enemies, be··glad over me;
they who hate me without· a ·cause wink the eye.
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For they speak not peace;
but against those who are at··repose in the land they think words of deceit.
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And they enlarged their mouth against me;
they said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen!
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Thou hast seen, O Jehovah; be· not ·silent;
O Lord, be· not ·far from me.
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Stir Thyself, and awake to my judgment,
to my plea, my God and my Lord.
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Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according··to Thy justice;
and let them not be··glad over me.
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Let them not say in their heart, Aha, our soul.
Let them not say, We have swallowed· him ·up.
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Let those be··ashamed and be made to blush together, who are glad when evil befalls me;
let those be clothed··with shame and humiliation who magnify themselves against me.
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Let those sing··aloud, and be··glad,
who delight··in my justice;
and let those say continually, let Jehovah become··great,
who delights··in the peace of His servant.
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And my tongue shall meditate··on Thy justice,
on Thy praise all the day.
