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¹ GIVE ear to my prayer, O God; and reject not my supplication.² Hear me and answer me; return to my cry and incline to me,³ Because of mine enemies, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they have devised iniquity against me, and reproached me.⁴ My heart is greatly pained within me; and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.⁵ Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and the shadow of death has overwhelmed me.⁶ And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away and be at rest.⁷ Lo, then I would fly far off and dwell in the wilderness.⁸ I would wait for him that will save me from the windy storm and the tempest.

⁹ Destroy, O LORD, and render useless their tongues; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.¹⁰ Day and night they go about it, around its walls; injustice and mischief are in the midst of it.¹¹ Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile depart not from its streets.¹² For it was not mine enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it; neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him;¹³ But it was you, a man mine equal, my kinsman, and my friend.¹⁴ We ate a meal together in the house of God, and we walked in harmony.¹⁵ Bring death upon them; bury them alive in the grave, because there is evil among them.

¹⁶ As for me, I will call upon God; and God shall save me.¹⁷ At evening and in the morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud; and he shall hear my voice.¹⁸ Deliver my soul from those who have been too wise for me, from those who have opposed me continuously.¹⁹ God, even the Eternal one, shall hear and humble them. With them also there are no changes; therefore they fear not God.²⁰ They have put forth their hands against their neighbours, they have broken his covenant.²¹ They were afraid because of the anger in his countenance and the wrath in his heart; his words were smoother than butter, yet were they sharp like the point of a spear.²² Cast your worries upon the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never suffer the righteous to fear want.²³ But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction; bloody and deceitful men shall not live out their days; but I will trust in thee.