Prayer for Protection against the Wicked.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.

140 (A)Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men;
Preserve me from (B)violent men

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(A)Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
(B)Preserve me from violent men
Who have [a]purposed to [b](C)trip up my feet.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 140:4 Or devised
  2. Psalm 140:4 Lit push violently

11 “May a [a]slanderer not be established in the earth;
(A)May evil hunt the violent man [b]speedily.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 140:11 Lit man of tongue
  2. Psalm 140:11 Lit thrust upon thrust