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86 All your commandments are enduring;
    I am persecuted without cause; help me!(A)

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26 Help me, O Lord my God!
    Save me according to your steadfast love.

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But I am poor and needy;
    hasten to me, O God!
You are my help and my deliverer;
    O Lord, do not delay!(A)

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19 Do not let my treacherous enemies rejoice over me
    or those who hate me without cause wink the eye.(A)

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12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.(A)

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151 Yet you are near, O Lord,
    and all your commandments are true.(A)

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138 You have appointed your decrees in righteousness
    and in all faithfulness.(A)

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128 Truly I direct my steps by all your precepts;[a]
    I hate every false way.(A)

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  1. 119.128 Gk Jerome: Meaning of Heb uncertain

78 Let the arrogant be put to shame,
    for they have subverted me with guile;
    as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.(A)

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For without cause they hid their net[a] for me;
    without cause they dug a pit[b] for my life.(A)

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  1. 35.7 Heb a pit, their net
  2. 35.7 The word pit is transposed from the preceding line

142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
    and your law is the truth.(A)

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the fear of the Lord is pure,
    enduring forever;
the ordinances of the Lord are true
    and righteous altogether.(A)

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20 Is evil a recompense for good?
    Yet they have dug a pit for my life.
Remember how I stood before you
    to speak good for them,
    to turn away your wrath from them.(A)

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Save me, O Lord, from my enemies;
    I have fled to you for refuge.[a](A)

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  1. 143.9 Heb ms Gk: MT to you I have hidden

Look on my right hand and see:
    there is no one who takes notice of me;
no refuge remains to me;
    no one cares for me.(A)

I cry to you, O Lord;
    I say, “You are my refuge,
    my portion in the land of the living.”(B)
Listen to my cry,
    for I am brought very low.

Save me from my persecutors,
    for they are too strong for me.(C)

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Even now they lie in wait for my life;
    the mighty stir up strife against me.
For no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord,(A)
    for no fault of mine, they run and make ready.

Rouse yourself, come to my help and see!(B)

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19 Those who are my foes without cause[a] are mighty,
    and many are those who hate me wrongfully.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 38.19 Q ms: MT my living foes

Psalm 7

Plea for Help against Persecutors

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjaminite.

O Lord my God, in you I take refuge;
    save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,(A)
or like a lion they will tear me apart;
    they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.(B)

O Lord my God, if I have done this,
    if there is wrong in my hands,(C)
if I have repaid my ally with harm
    or plundered my foe without cause,(D)
then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,
    trample my life to the ground,
    and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

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