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| 1 By David. |
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| Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit. |
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| 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle. |
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| 3 Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart. |
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| 4 Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. According to the work of their hands give to them. Return their deed to them. |
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| 5 For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up. |
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| 6 Blessed [is] Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications. |
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| 7 Jehovah [is] my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.
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Trusted in him – The grandeur of David's character was shown in his devotion to God and in his submission to the divine will. R5674:5
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| 8 Jehovah [is] strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed [is] He. |
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| 9 Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age! |
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