| Chapter 59 |
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To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not,` by David. -- A secret treasure, in Saul`s sending, and they watch the house to put him to death. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God, From my withstanders set me on high. |
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Deliver me from workers of iniquity, And from men of blood save me. |
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For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Yehovah. |
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Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, Stir up to meet me, and see. |
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And Thou, Yehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel, Awake to inspect all the nations. Favour not any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah. |
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They turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And go round about the city. |
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Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for `Who heareth?` |
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And Thou, O Yehovah dost laugh at them, Thou dost mock at all the nations. |
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O my Strength, unto Thee I take heed, For God is my tower -- the God of my kindness. |
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God doth go before me, He causeth me to look on mine enemies. |
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Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield. |
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The sin of their mouth is a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount. |
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Consume in fury, consume and they are not, And they know that God is ruling in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. Selah. |
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And they turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And they go round about the city. |
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They -- they wander for food, If they are not satisfied -- then they murmur. |
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And I -- I sing of Thy strength, And I sing at morn of Thy kindness, For thou hast been a tower to me, And a refuge for me in a day of adversity. |
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O my Strength, unto Thee I sing praise, For God is my tower, the God of my kindness! |