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1.7 KiB
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65 lines
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In You Do I Take Refuge
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# Chapter 7
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1. O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge;
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save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
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2. lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
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rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
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3. O LORD my God, if I have done this,
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if there is wrong in my hands,
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4. if I have repaid my friend with evil
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or plundered my enemy without cause,
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5. let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,
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and let him trample my life to the ground
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and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
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6. Arise, O LORD, in your anger;
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lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
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awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
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7. Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you;
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over it return on high.
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8. The LORD judges the peoples;
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judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness
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and according to the integrity that is in me.
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9. Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
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and may you establish the righteous--
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you who test the minds and hearts,
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O righteous God!
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10. My shield is with God,
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who saves the upright in heart.
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11. God is a righteous judge,
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and a God who feels indignation every day.
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12. If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;
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he has bent and readied his bow;
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13. he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
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making his arrows fiery shafts.
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14. Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
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and is pregnant with mischief
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and gives birth to lies.
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15. He makes a pit, digging it out,
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and falls into the hole that he has made.
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16. His mischief returns upon his own head,
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and on his own skull his violence descends.
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17. I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness,
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and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.
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