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25 Don’t let them say, “Look, we got what we wanted!
    Now we will eat him alive!”

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25 Do not let them think, “Aha,(A) just what we wanted!”
    or say, “We have swallowed him up.”(B)

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16 All your enemies mock you.
    They scoff and snarl and say,
“We have destroyed her at last!
    We have long waited for this day,
    and it is finally here!”

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16 All your enemies open their mouths
    wide against you;(A)
they scoff and gnash their teeth(B)
    and say, “We have swallowed her up.(C)
This is the day we have waited for;
    we have lived to see it.”(D)

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They would have swallowed us alive
    in their burning anger.

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they would have swallowed us alive
    when their anger flared against us;

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54 Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die,[a] this Scripture will be fulfilled:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 15:54a Some manuscripts add and our mortal bodies have been transformed into immortal bodies.
  2. 15:54b Isa 25:8.

54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[a](A)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 15:54 Isaiah 25:8

Jesus knew immediately what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts?

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Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these things?

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But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to themselves,

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Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves,

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43 He trusted God, so let God rescue him now if he wants him! For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

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43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him(A) now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

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Lord, do not let evil people have their way.
    Do not let their evil schemes succeed,
    or they will become proud. Interlude

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Do not grant the wicked(A) their desires, Lord;
    do not let their plans succeed.

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Then they thought, “Let’s destroy everything!”
    So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.

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They said in their hearts, “We will crush(A) them completely!”
    They burned(B) every place where God was worshiped in the land.

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He will send help from heaven to rescue me,
    disgracing those who hound me. Interlude
My God will send forth his unfailing love and faithfulness.

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He sends from heaven and saves me,(A)
    rebuking those who hotly pursue me—[a](B)
    God sends forth his love and his faithfulness.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 57:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 6.

Psalm 56

For the choir director: A psalm[a] of David, regarding the time the Philistines seized him in Gath. To be sung to the tune “Dove on Distant Oaks.”

O God, have mercy on me,
    for people are hounding me.
    My foes attack me all day long.
I am constantly hounded by those who slander me,
    and many are boldly attacking me.

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  1. 56:Title Hebrew miktam. This may be a literary or musical term.

Psalm 56[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” Of David. A miktam.[b] When the Philistines had seized him in Gath.

Be merciful to me,(A) my God,
    for my enemies are in hot pursuit;(B)
    all day long they press their attack.(C)
My adversaries pursue me all day long;(D)
    in their pride many are attacking me.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 56:1 In Hebrew texts 56:1-13 is numbered 56:2-14.
  2. Psalm 56:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term

Do not drag me away with the wicked—
    with those who do evil—
those who speak friendly words to their neighbors
    while planning evil in their hearts.

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Do not drag me away with the wicked,
    with those who do evil,
who speak cordially with their neighbors
    but harbor malice in their hearts.(A)

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12 Do not let me fall into their hands.
    For they accuse me of things I’ve never done;
    with every breath they threaten me with violence.

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12 Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,
    for false witnesses(A) rise up against me,
    spouting malicious accusations.

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