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Psalm 56:5-7
Evangelical Heritage Version
Psalm 56:5-7
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Enemies
5 All day long they hurt my cause.[a]
All their thoughts against me are evil.
6 They gather together. They hide.
They try to trip me by grabbing my heels
while they wait to take my life.
David’s Trust
7 Because of their wickedness do not let them escape.[b]
In your anger bring down the peoples, O God.
Footnotes
- Psalm 56:5 Or they twist my words
- Psalm 56:7 The Hebrew reads because of wickedness, deliverance to them. This does not make sense in the context. The translation assumes there was an accidental omission of a negative. Another way to handle the problem is to make the phrase a question: because of their wickedness, will they escape?
Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)
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