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God, send them away because of the bad things they did.
    Show your anger and defeat those people.
You know I am very upset.
    You know how much I have cried.
    Surely you have kept an account of all my tears.

I know that when l call for help, my enemies will turn and run.
    I know that because God is with me!

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Because of their wickedness do not[a] let them escape;(A)
    in your anger, God, bring the nations down.(B)

Record my misery;
    list my tears on your scroll[b](C)
    are they not in your record?(D)
Then my enemies will turn back(E)
    when I call for help.(F)
    By this I will know that God is for me.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 56:7 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have do not.
  2. Psalm 56:8 Or misery; / put my tears in your wineskin