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aIn You, O Jehovah, do I
btake refuge;
Never let me be put to shame.
1Rescue me in Your righteousness.
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Incline Your ear to me;
Deliver me speedily.
Be to me a
1arock of protection,
A fortress, to save me.
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For You are my crag and my fortress;
Therefore for Your name’s sake
Lead me and guide me.
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Bring me out of the net
That they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my protection.
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1aInto Your hand I commit my spirit;
Redeem me, O Jehovah, God of truth.
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I hate those who regard
1vanities of falsehood,
But I trust in Jehovah.
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I will exult and rejoice in Your lovingkindness,
Since You have seen my affliction;
You know the distress of my soul.
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And You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
You have made my feet stand in a place broad and free.
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Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, for I am in
1distress.
My eye is wasted away with grief,
Indeed my soul and body.
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For my life has been consumed in
asorrow,
And my years, in sighing.
My strength fails because of my iniquity,
And my bones have wasted away.
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Because of all my adversaries,
I have become a reproach,
And especially so to my neighbors,
And something dreaded to my acquaintances;
Those who see me on the street flee from me.
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I am forgotten, like a dead man out of mind;
I am like a destroyed vessel.
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For I hear the
aslander of many;
Terror is on every side.
When they take
bcounsel together against me,
They scheme to take my life.
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But I
atrust in You, O Jehovah;
I say, You are my God.
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My atimes are in Your hand;
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.
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Cause Your face to
ashine upon Your servant;
Save me in Your lovingkindness.
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O Jehovah, do not let me be put to shame when I call out to You;
Let the wicked be put to shame; let them be silent in Sheol.
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Let the lips of falsehood be made dumb,
Which speak arrogantly against the righteous
With pride and contempt.
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How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who fear You,
Which You have accomplished in the sight of the sons of men
For those who
atake refuge in You!
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You hide them in the
ahiding place of Your presence
Apart from the conspiracies of men;
You lay them away secretly in a shelter
Apart from the contention of tongues.
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Blessed be Jehovah,
For He displayed His lovingkindness wondrously
To me in a fortified city.
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I, on my part, had said in my alarm,
I am cut off before Your eyes;
But instead You heard
The voice of my supplications
When I cried out to You.
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aLove Jehovah, all
you who are His faithful ones;
Jehovah guards the trustworthy,
And recompenses abundantly
Him who acts haughtily.
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Be strong, and let your heart be encouraged,
All you who
1hope in Jehovah.
