113-120 I hate the two-faced,
    but I love your clear-cut revelation.
You’re my place of quiet retreat;
    I wait for your Word to renew me.
Get out of my life, evildoers,
    so I can keep my God’s commands.
Take my side as you promised; I’ll live then for sure.
    Don’t disappoint all my grand hopes.
Stick with me and I’ll be all right;
    I’ll give total allegiance to your definitions of life.
Expose all who drift away from your sayings;
    their casual idolatry is lethal.
You reject earth’s wicked as so much rubbish;
    therefore I lovingly embrace everything you say.
I shiver in awe before you;
    your decisions leave me speechless with reverence.

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115 Away from me,(A) you evildoers,
    that I may keep the commands of my God!
116 Sustain me,(B) my God, according to your promise,(C) and I will live;
    do not let my hopes be dashed.(D)
117 Uphold me,(E) and I will be delivered;(F)
    I will always have regard for your decrees.(G)

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