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and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.

Draw near to my soul; redeem it. Because of my enemies, ransom me.

because they persecute those whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded.

because Yahweh hears the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners.

because God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.

let them turn back because of their shame, those who say, "Aha! Aha!"

Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always; you have ordained to save me, because you are my rock and my fortress.

because you are my hope, O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

saying, "His God has abandoned him. Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer."

My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm.

because I envied the boastful when I saw the well-being of the wicked.

Have regard for the covenant, because the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.

because they did not believe God, and they did not trust his salvation.

because they have devoured Jacob and have laid waste his habitation.

Do not remember against us former iniquities; let your mercies meet us quickly because we are brought very low.

because it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

Rise up, O God, judge the earth, because you shall inherit all the nations.

Because better is a day in your courtyards than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be at the threshold of the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Because Yahweh God is a sun and a shield; Yahweh gives grace and honor. He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, because he will speak peace to his people, even his faithful ones, but let them not return to folly.