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Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help;

For without cause have they hidden for me their net [in] a pit; without cause they have digged [it] for my soul.

Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net which he hath hidden catch himself: for destruction let him fall therein.

They reward me evil for good, [to] the bereavement of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom:

I behaved myself as though [he had been] a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth [for] a mother.

With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.

For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land.

Stir up thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and Lord!

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, [even] when his iniquity is found to be hateful.

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.

For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on Jehovah, they shall possess the land.

For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou considerest his place, but he is not.

The Lord laugheth at him; for he seeth that his day is coming.

for the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Jehovah upholdeth the righteous.

Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect; and their inheritance shall be for ever:

For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away.

for those blessed of him shall possess the land, and they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.