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The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.
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but he soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be found.
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Psalm 57
For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam. When he had fled from Saul into the cave.
Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.
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He turned the sea into dry land, they passed through the waters on foot— come, let us rejoice in him.
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He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
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Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
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As they pass through the Valley of Baka, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
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All who pass by have plundered him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
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All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.
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Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
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till what he foretold came to pass, till the word of the Lord proved him true.
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May those who pass by not say to them, “The blessing of the Lord be on you; we bless you in the name of the Lord.”
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
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and he established them for ever and ever— he issued a decree that will never pass away.
