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O
save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,
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or like a lion they will tear me apart;
they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.
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O
if there is wrong in my hands,
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if I have repaid my ally with harm
or plundered my foe without cause,
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then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,
trample my life to the ground,
and lay my soul in the dust.+pSelah
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Rise up, O
lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake, O my God; 1 you have appointed a judgment.
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Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,
and over it take your seat 2 on high.
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The
judge me, O
and according to the integrity that is in me.
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O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous,
you who test the minds and hearts,
O righteous God.
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God is my shield,
who saves the upright in heart.
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God is a righteous judge,
and a God who has indignation every day.
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If one does not repent, God 3 will whet his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow;
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he has prepared his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
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See how they conceive evil,
and are pregnant with mischief,
and bring forth lies.
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They make a pit, digging it out,
and fall into the hole that they have made.
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Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
and on their own heads their violence descends.
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I will give to the
and sing praise to the name of the