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1 O LORD my God, I take refuge in you; * save and deliver me from all who pursue me; 2 Lest like a lion they tear me in pieces * and snatch me away with none to deliver me. 3 O LORD my God, if I have done these things: * if there is any wickedness in my hands, 4 If I have repaid my friend with evil, * or plundered him who without cause is my enemy; 5 Then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, * trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. 6 Stand up, O LORD, in your wrath; * rise up against the fury of my enemies. 7 Awake, O my God, decree justice; * let the assembly of the peoples gather round you. 8 Be seated on your lofty throne, O Most High; * O LORD, judge the nations. 9 Give judgment for me according to my righteousness, O LORD, * and according to my innocence, O Most High. 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. 11 God is my shield and defense; * he is the savior of the true in heart. 12 God is a righteous judge; * God sits in judgment every day. 13 If they will not repent, God will whet his sword; * he will bend his bow and make it ready. 14 He has prepared his weapons of death; * he makes his arrows shafts of fire. 15 Look at those who are in labor with wickedness, * who conceive evil, and give birth to a lie. 16 They dig a pit and make it deep * and fall into the hole that they have made. 17 Their malice turns back upon their own head; * their violence falls on their own scalp. 18 I will bear witness that the LORD is righteous; * I will praise the Name of the LORD Most High.
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chanted by the Rev. Philip Mayer St. Peter's by the Lake Episcopal Church The Colony, Texas |