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He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me; for they were mightier than I.

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his ordinances were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me;

For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.

For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

As for God, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

For who is +God save Jehovah? and who is a rock if not our God?

[It is he] who giveth great deliverances to his king, and sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their language to the extremity of the world. In them hath he set a tent for the sun,

The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether:

For thou hast met him with the blessings of goodness; thou hast set a crown of pure gold on his head.

He asked life of thee; thou gavest [it] him, length of days for ever and ever.

For thou hast made him to be blessings for ever; thou hast filled him with joy by thy countenance.

For the king confideth in Jehovah: and through the loving-kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.

For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.

For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.

My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:

Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.