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Please, Lord, be kind to us!
    We depend on you.
Make us strong each morning,
and come to save us
    when we are in trouble.
Nations scatter when you roar
    and show your greatness.[a]
We attack our enemies
    like swarms of locusts;[b]
we take everything
    that belongs to them.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 33.3 greatness: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 3.
  2. 33.4 locusts: Insects like grasshoppers that travel in swarms and cause great damage to crops.
  3. 33.4 them: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 4.

Lord, be gracious(A) to us;
    we long for you.
Be our strength(B) every morning,
    our salvation(C) in time of distress.(D)
At the uproar of your army,(E) the peoples flee;(F)
    when you rise up,(G) the nations scatter.
Your plunder,(H) O nations, is harvested(I) as by young locusts;(J)
    like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.

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