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O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;

O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.

God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.

The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

Keep me safe, O God: for in you I have put my faith.

Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.

My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.