Deliver me from my enemies
(1 Samuel 19:1-24)
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TO THE OVERSEER. “DO NOT DESTROY.” A MIKTAM OF DAVID, IN SAUL’S SENDING, AND THEY WATCH THE HOUSE TO PUT HIM TO DEATH. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God, || Set me on high from my withstanders.
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Deliver me from workers of iniquity, || And save me from men of blood.
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For behold, they laid wait for my soul, || Strong ones are assembled against me, || Not my transgression nor my sin, O YHWH.
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Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, || Stir up to meet me, and see.
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And You, YHWH, God of Hosts, God of Israel, || Awake to inspect all the nations. Do not favor any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah.
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They return at evening, || They make a noise like a dog, || And go around the city.
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Behold, they belch out with their mouths, || Swords [are] in their lips, for “Who hears?”
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And You, O YHWH, laugh at them, || You mock at all the nations.
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O my Strength, to You I take heed, || For God [is] my tower—the God of my kindness.
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God goes before me, || He causes me to look on my enemies.
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Do not slay them, lest my people forget, || Shake them by Your strength, || And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
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The sin of their mouth [is] a word of their lips, || And they are captured in their pride, || And they recount from the curse and lying.
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Consume in fury, consume and they are not, || And they know that God is ruling in Jacob, || To the ends of the earth. Selah.
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And they return at evening, || They make a noise like a dog, || And they go around the city.
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They wander for food, || If they are not satisfied—then they murmur.
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And I sing of Your strength, || And at morning I sing of Your kindness, || For You have been a tower to me, || And a refuge for me in a day of adversity.
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O my Strength, I sing praise to You, || For God [is] my tower, the God of my kindness!
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