New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 O Lord my God, in thee I find refuge;
save me, rescue me from my pursuers,
2 before they tear at my throat like a lion
and carry me off beyond hope of rescue.
3 O Lord my God, if I have done any of these things—
if I have stained my hands with guilt,
4 if I have repaid a friend evil for good
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or set free an enemy who attacked me without cause,
5 may my adversary come after me and overtake me,
trample my life to the ground
and lay my honour in the dust!
6 Arise, O Lord, in thy anger,
rouse thyself in wrath against my foes.
Awake, my God who hast ordered that justice be done;
7 let the peoples assemble around thee,
and take thou thy seat on high above them.
8 O Lord, thou who dost pass sentence on the nations,
O Lord, judge me as my righteousness deserves,
for I am clearly innocent.
9 Let wicked men do no more harm,
establish the reign of righteousness, note
thou who examinest both heart and mind,
thou righteous God.
10 God, the High God, is my shield
who saves men of honest heart.
11 God is a just judge,
every day he requites the raging enemy.
12 He sharpens his sword,
strings his bow and makes it ready.
13 He has prepared his deadly shafts
and tipped his arrows with fire.
14 But the enemy is in labour with iniquity;
he conceives mischief, and his brood is lies.
15 He has made a pit and dug it deep,
and he himself shall fall into the hole that he has made.
16 His mischief shall recoil upon himself,
and his violence fall on his own head.
17 I will praise the Lord for his righteousness
and sing a psalm to the name of the Lord Most High.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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