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PSALMS
- I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah
- 9I would haste me to a shelter
- From the stormy wind and tempest.'
- 10Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue;
- For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
- 11Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof;
- Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
- 12Wickedness is in the midst thereof;
- Oppression and guile depart not from her broad place.
- 13For it was not an enemy that taunted me,
- Then I could have borne it;
- Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me,
- Then I would have hid myself from him.
- 14But it was thou, a man mine equal,
- My companion, and my familiar friend;
- 15We took sweet counsel together,
- In the house of God we walked with the throng.
- 16May He incite death against them,
- Let them go down alive into the nether-world;
- For evil is in their dwelling, and within them.
- 17As for me, I will call upon God;
- And the Lord shall save me.
- 18Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I complain, and moan;
- And He hath heard my voice.
- 19He hath redeemed my soul in peace so that none came nigh me;
- For they were many that strove with me.
- 20God shall hear, and humble them,
- Even He that is enthroned of old, Selah
- Such as have no changes,
- And fear not God.
- 21He hath put forth his hands against them that were at peace with him;
- He hath profaned his covenant.
- 22Smoother than cream were the speeches of his mouth,
- But his heart was war;
- His words were softer than oil,
- Yet were they keen-edged swords.
- 23Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee;
- He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
- 24But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit;
- Men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days;
- But as for me, I will trust in Thee.
56 For the Leader; upon Jonathelem-rehokim. [A Psalm] of David; Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.
- 2Be gracious unto me, O God, for man would swallow me up;
- All the day he fighting oppresseth me.
- 3They that lie in wait for me would swallow me up all the day;
- For they are many that fight against me, O Most High,
- 4In the day that I am afraid,
- I will put my trust in Thee.
- 5In God—I will praise His word—
- In God do I trust, I will not be afraid;
- What can flesh do unto me?
- 6All the day they trouble mine affairs;
- All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- 7They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,
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