22 Arise, O God, (A)defend your cause;
    (B)remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!

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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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18 (A)Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs,
    and (B)a foolish people reviles your name.

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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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Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and (A)continually all the day my name is despised.

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“And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord.

“For my people have been taken away for nothing,
    and those who rule them mock,[a]
declares the Lord.
“And all day long
    my name is constantly blasphemed.(A)

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  1. Isaiah 52:5 Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate; Masoretic Text wail

19 (A)Arise, O Lord! Let not (B)man prevail;
    let the nations be judged before you!
20 Put them in fear, O Lord!
    Let the nations know that they are but (C)men! Selah

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19 Arise,(A) Lord, do not let mortals triumph;(B)
    let the nations be judged(C) in your presence.
20 Strike them with terror,(D) Lord;
    let the nations know they are only mortal.(E)

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50 (A)Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,
    and how I bear in my (B)heart the insults[a] of all the many nations,
51 with which your enemies mock, O Lord,
    with which they mock (C)the footsteps of your (D)anointed.

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  1. Psalm 89:50 Hebrew lacks the insults

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

(A)Help us, O God of our salvation,
    for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and (B)atone for our sins,
    for your (C)name's sake!
10 (D)Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”
Let (E)the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
    be known among the nations before our eyes!

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Help us,(A) God our Savior,
    for the glory of your name;
deliver us and forgive our sins
    for your name’s sake.(B)
10 Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”(C)

Before our eyes, make known among the nations
    that you avenge(D) the outpoured blood(E) of your servants.

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I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
    and to the wicked, (A)‘Do not lift up your horn;
do not lift up your horn on high,
    or speak with haughty neck.’”

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To the arrogant(A) I say, ‘Boast no more,’(B)
    and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horns.[a](C)
Do not lift your horns against heaven;
    do not speak so defiantly.(D)’”

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  1. Psalm 75:4 Horns here symbolize strength; also in verses 5 and 10.

There Is None Who Does Good

To the choirmaster: according to (A)Mahalath. A Maskil[a] of David.

53 (B)The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
    They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;
    there is none who does good.

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  1. Psalm 53:1 Probably musical or liturgical terms

Psalm 53[a](A)

For the director of music. According to mahalath.[b] A maskil[c] of David.

The fool(B) says in his heart,
    “There is no God.”(C)
They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
    there is no one who does good.

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  1. Psalm 53:1 In Hebrew texts 53:1-6 is numbered 53:2-7.
  2. Psalm 53:1 Title: Probably a musical term
  3. Psalm 53:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term