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Strangers[a] have risen against me;
    those who are ruthless seek my life,
    and they have no thought of God. Selah
Surely God is my helper;
    the Lord is the one who sustains me.
May their own evil recoil on my foes:
    you who are faithful, destroy them.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 54:5 Strangers: probably a reference to the people of the Desert of Ziph (see 1 Sam 23:19). They have no thought of God: the same type of sinners as in Ps 53.
  2. Psalm 54:7 See notes on Pss 5:11; 35.

Let evil recoil(A) on those who slander me;
    in your faithfulness(B) destroy them.

I will sacrifice a freewill offering(C) to you;
    I will praise(D) your name, Lord, for it is good.(E)
You have delivered me(F) from all my troubles,
    and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.(G)

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