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If I were hungry, I should not tell you; for the world is mine and the fulness thereof.

For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight; for thou wilt be justified in thy reproof, triumphant in thy judgments.

For behold, I was formed in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

For thou desirest not sacrifice; thou &lightest not in burnt offerings.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it; and I will proclaim thy name before thy saints for generations.

These people no longer recognize evil; they have consumed my people like bread; they have no respect for God.

There they feared where no fear was; for God has scattered the bones of hypocrites; they have been ashamed, because God has despised them.

For strangers are risen up against me, and the mighty seek after my life; they have disregarded thee, O God.

I will freely sacrifice to thee; I will praise thy name, O LORD, for it is good;

For thou hast delivered me out of all troubles; and mine eye hath seen mine enemies defeated.

Because of mine enemies, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they have devised iniquity against me, and reproached me.

I would wait for him that will save me from the windy storm and the tempest.

Destroy, O LORD, and render useless their tongues; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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;

As for me, I will call upon God; and God shall save me.

Deliver my soul from those who have been too wise for me, from those who have opposed me continuously.

BE merciful to me, O God; for man has trodden me under foot; all the day long the fighting oppresses me.

Mine enemies have daily trodden me under foot; for many warriors have risen against me.