| Chapter 54 |
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Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David. --
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Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication: --
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the same are darts. --
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be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled, --
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at the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were troublesome to me. --
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My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me. --
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Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me. --
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And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest? --
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Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the wilderness. --
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I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, and a storm. --
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Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city. --
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Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour, --
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and injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets. --
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For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him. --
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But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar, --
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Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God we walked with consent. --
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Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them. --
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But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me. --
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Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he shall hear my voice. --
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He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for among many they were with me. --
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God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God: --
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he hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant, --
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they are divided by the wrath Of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and --
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Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever. --
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But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord. --
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