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1 - To the Overseer with stringed instruments. --An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, <FI>to<Fi> my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.

2 - Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,

3 - Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.

4 - My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

5 - Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.

6 - And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,

7 - Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.

8 - I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.

9 - Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

10 - By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness <FI>are<Fi> in its midst,

11 - Mischiefs <FI>are<Fi> in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

12 - For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear <FI>it<Fi> , He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.

13 - But thou, a man--as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.

14 - When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.

15 - Desolations <FI>are<Fi> upon them, They go down <FI>to<Fi> Sheol--alive, For wickedness <FI>is<Fi> in their dwelling, in their midst.

16 - I--to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.

17 - Evening, and morning, and noon, I meditate, and make a noise, and He heareth my voice,

18 - He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.

19 - God doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not God,

20 - He hath sent forth his hands against his well-wishers, He hath polluted his covenant.

21 - Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart <FI>is<Fi> war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they <FI>are<Fi> drawn <FI>swords<Fi> .

22 - Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.

23 - And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I--I do trust in Thee!