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18 Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
    and an impious people reviles your name.(A)

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18 Remember how the enemy has mocked you, Lord,
    how foolish people(A) have reviled your name.

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Deliver me from all my transgressions.
    Do not make me the scorn of the fool.(A)

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Save me(A) from all my transgressions;(B)
    do not make me the scorn(C) of fools.

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19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered great Babylon and gave her the wine cup of the fury of his wrath.(A)

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19 The great city(A) split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered(B) Babylon the Great(C) and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.(D)

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Do you thus repay the Lord,
    O foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father who created you,
    who made you and established you?(A)

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Is this the way you repay(A) the Lord,
    you foolish(B) and unwise people?(C)
Is he not your Father,(D) your Creator,[a]
    who made you and formed you?(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:6 Or Father, who bought you

14 But I acted for the sake of my name, so that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

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14 But for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned(A) in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.(B)

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Upon your walls, O Jerusalem,
    I have posted sentinels;
all day and all night
    they shall never be silent.
You who remind the Lord,
    take no rest,(A)
and give him no rest
    until he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes it renowned throughout the earth.(B)

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I have posted watchmen(A) on your walls, Jerusalem;
    they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the Lord,
    give yourselves no rest,(B)
and give him no rest(C) till he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes her the praise(D) of the earth.

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23 “Whom have you mocked and reviled?
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and haughtily lifted your eyes?
    Against the Holy One of Israel!(A)
24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
    and you have said, ‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
    to the far recesses of Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
    its choicest cypresses;
I came to its remotest height,
    its densest forest.(B)

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23 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?(A)
    Against whom have you raised your voice(B)
and lifted your eyes in pride?(C)
    Against the Holy One(D) of Israel!
24 By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots(E)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights(F) of Lebanon.(G)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.(H)
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.

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Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites
    the day of Jerusalem’s fall,
how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down!
    Down to its foundations!”(A)

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Remember, Lord, what the Edomites(A) did
    on the day Jerusalem fell.(B)
“Tear it down,” they cried,
    “tear it down to its foundations!”(C)

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Rise up, O judge of the earth;
    give to the proud what they deserve!(A)
O Lord, how long shall the wicked,
    how long shall the wicked exult?(B)

They pour out their arrogant words;
    all the evildoers boast.(C)
They crush your people, O Lord,
    and afflict your heritage.
They kill the widow and the stranger;
    they murder the orphan,
and they say, “The Lord does not see;
    the God of Jacob does not perceive.”(D)

Understand, O dullest of the people;
    fools, when will you be wise?(E)

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Rise up,(A) Judge(B) of the earth;
    pay back(C) to the proud what they deserve.
How long, Lord, will the wicked,
    how long will the wicked be jubilant?(D)

They pour out arrogant(E) words;
    all the evildoers are full of boasting.(F)
They crush your people,(G) Lord;
    they oppress your inheritance.(H)
They slay the widow(I) and the foreigner;
    they murder the fatherless.(J)
They say, “The Lord does not see;(K)
    the God of Jacob(L) takes no notice.”

Take notice, you senseless ones(M) among the people;
    you fools, when will you become wise?

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50 Remember, O Lord, how your servant is taunted,
    how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,[a](A)
51 with which your enemies taunt, O Lord,
    with which they taunted the footsteps of your anointed.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 89.50 Cn: Heb bosom all of many peoples

50 Remember, Lord, how your servant has[a] been mocked,(A)
    how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,
51 the taunts with which your enemies, Lord, have mocked,
    with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.(B)

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  1. Psalm 89:50 Or your servants have

22 Rise up, O God, plead your cause;
    remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.(A)

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22 Rise up,(A) O God, and defend your cause;
    remember how fools(B) mock you all day long.

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Psalm 41

Assurance of God’s Help and a Plea for Healing

To the leader. A Psalm of David.

Happy are those who consider the poor;[a]
    the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 41.1 Or weak

Psalm 41[a]

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

Blessed(A) are those who have regard for the weak;(B)
    the Lord delivers them in times of trouble.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 41:1 In Hebrew texts 41:1-13 is numbered 41:2-14.

27 but I feared provocation by the enemy,
    for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, “Our hand is triumphant;
    it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’(A)

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27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand(A)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”(B)

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