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| 1 To the Overseer. 'On the Dumb Dove far off.' A secret treasure of David, in the Philistines' taking hold of him in Gath. |
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| Favour me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresseth me, |
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| 2 Mine enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many [are] fighting against me, O most High, |
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| 3 The day I am afraid I am confident toward Thee. |
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| 4 In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, I fear not what flesh doth to me. |
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| 5 All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts [are] for evil, |
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| 6 They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul. |
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| 7 By iniquity they escape, In anger the peoples put down, O God. |
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| 8 My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book |
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| 9 Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God [is] for me. |
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| 10 In God I praise the word, In Jehovah I praise the word. |
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| 11 In God I trusted, I fear not what man doth to me, |
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| 12 On me, O God, [are] Thy vows, I repay thank-offerings to Thee. |
Vows are upon me – Nothing in the Scriptures intimates that our vow to the Lord must be kept secret. Indeed, our baptismal vow we are required to symbolize, or profess, publicly. R4266:4
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| 13 For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling To walk habitually before God in the light of the living! |
My soul from death – The soul can be destroyed by its Creator. R1882:1; HG334:5
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