Let my soul come not into their council;
    (A)O my glory, (B)be not joined to their company.
For in their anger they killed men,
    and in their willfulness they (C)hamstrung oxen.

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Let me not enter their council,
    let me not join their assembly,(A)
for they have killed men in their anger(B)
    and hamstrung(C) oxen as they pleased.

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30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, (A)“You have brought trouble on me (B)by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, (C)the Canaanites and the Perizzites. (D)My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

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30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble(A) on me by making me obnoxious(B) to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land.(C) We are few in number,(D) and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

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(A)Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,
    nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

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Do not take away my soul along with sinners,
    my life with those who are bloodthirsty,(A)

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Hide me from (A)the secret plots of the wicked,
    from the throng of evildoers,

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Hide me from the conspiracy(A) of the wicked,(B)
    from the plots of evildoers.

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    (A)Awake, (B)my glory![a]
Awake, (C)O harp and lyre!
    I will awake the dawn!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 57:8 Or my whole being

Awake, my soul!
    Awake, harp and lyre!(A)
    I will awaken the dawn.

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Therefore my heart is glad, and my (A)whole being[a] rejoices;
    my flesh also dwells secure.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:9 Hebrew my glory

Therefore my heart is glad(A) and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest secure,(B)

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The Temple of the Living God

14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For (B)what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or (C)what fellowship has light with darkness?

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Warning Against Idolatry

14 Do not be yoked together(A) with unbelievers.(B) For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?(C)

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19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up (A)for many years; relax, (B)eat, drink, be merry.”’

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19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

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17 (A)I did not sit in the company of revelers,
    nor did I rejoice;
(B)I sat alone, because your hand was upon me,
    for you had filled me with indignation.

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17 I never sat(A) in the company of revelers,
    never made merry with them;
I sat alone because your hand(B) was on me
    and you had filled me with indignation.

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Anguish over Judah's Desolation

19 (A)My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
    Oh the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
    I cannot keep silent,
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
    the alarm of war.

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19 Oh, my anguish, my anguish!(A)
    I writhe in pain.(B)
Oh, the agony of my heart!
    My heart pounds(C) within me,
    I cannot keep silent.(D)
For I have heard the sound of the trumpet;(E)
    I have heard the battle cry.(F)

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(A)The thoughts of the righteous are just;
    the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

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The plans of the righteous are just,
    but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

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15 my son, (A)do not walk in the way with them;
    (B)hold back your foot from their paths,
16 for (C)their feet run to evil,
    and they make haste to shed blood.

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15 my son, do not go along with them,
    do not set foot(A) on their paths;(B)
16 for their feet rush into evil,(C)
    they are swift to shed blood.(D)

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11 If they say, “Come with us, (A)let us lie in wait for blood;
    (B)let us ambush the innocent without reason;

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11 If they say, “Come along with us;
    let’s lie in wait(A) for innocent blood,
    let’s ambush some harmless soul;

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