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Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
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Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers,
From the tumult of those who do iniquity,
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Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,
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To shoot from concealment at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.
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They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”
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They devise injustices, saying,
“We are ready with a well-conceived plot”;
For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep.
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But God will shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.
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So they will make him stumble;
Their own tongue is against them;
All who see them will shake the head.
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Then all men will fear,
And they will declare the work of God,
And will consider what He has done.
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The righteous man will be glad in the LORD
and will
take refuge in Him;
And all the upright in heart will glory.
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