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With the wrong they do, can they escape?
    O Elohim, angrily make the nations fall.
(You have kept a record of my wanderings.
    Put my tears in your bottle.
        They are already in your book.)
Then my enemies will retreat when I call to you.
    This I know: Elohim is on my side.

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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