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| O LORD my God, I take refuge in you; *
save and deliver me from all who pursue me;
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| Lest like a lion they tear me in pieces *
and snatch me away with none to deliver me.
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| O LORD my God, if I have done these things:
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if there is any wickedness in my hands,
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| 4
| If I have repaid my friend with evil, *
or plundered him who without cause is my enemy;
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| Then let my enemy pursue and overtake me,
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trample my life into the ground,
and lay my honor in the dust.
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| 6
| Stand up, O LORD, in your wrath; *
rise up against the fury of my enemies.
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| 7
| Awake, O my God, decree justice; *
let the assembly of the peoples gather round you.
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| 8
| Be seated on your lofty throne, O Most High;
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O LORD, judge the nations.
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| 9
| Give judgment for me according to my righteousness,
O LORD, *
and according to my innocence, O Most High.
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| 10
| Let the malice of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous; *
for you test the mind and heart, O righteous God.
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| 11
| God is my shield and defense; *
he is the savior of the true in heart.
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| 12
| God is a righteous judge; *
God sits in judgment every day.
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| 13
| If they will not repent, God will whet his
sword; *
he will bend his bow and make it ready.
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| 14
| He has prepared his weapons of death; *
he makes his arrows shafts of fire.
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| 15
| Look at those who are in labor with wickedness,
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who conceive evil, and give birth to a lie.
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| They dig a pit and make it deep *
and fall into the hole that they have made.
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| Their malice turns back upon their own head;
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their violence falls on their own scalp.
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| 18
| I will bear witness that the LORD is righteous;
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I will praise the Name of the LORD Most High.
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