- [To the chiefe musician on Neginoth,
Maschil. A Psalme of Dauid.]
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- Giue eare to my prayer, O God: and hide not thy selfe from my supplication.
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- Attend vnto me, and heare me: I mourne in my complaint, and make a noise.
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- Because of the voyce of the enemie, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquitie vpon me, and in wrath they hate me.
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- My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrours of death are fallen vpon me.
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- Fearefulnesse and trembling are come vpon me, and horrour hath ouerwhelmed me.
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- And I said, O that I had wings like a doue;
for then would I flee away and be at rest.
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- Loe, then would I wander farre off, and remaine in the wildernesse.
Selah.
- 8
- I would hasten my escape from the windie storme, and tempest.
- 9
- Destroy, O Lord, and diuide their tongues: for I haue seene violence and strife in the citie.
- 10
- Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: mischiefe also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
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- Wickednesse is in the midst thereof: deceite and guile depart not from her streets.
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- For it was not an enemie that reproached me, then I could haue borne it, neither was it hee that hated me, that did magnifie himselfe against me, then I would haue hid my selfe from him.
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- But it was thou, a man, mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
- 14
- Wee tooke sweet counsell together, and walked vnto the house of God in companie.
- 15
- Let death seaze vpon them, and let them goe downe quicke into hell: for wickednes is in their dwellings, and among them.
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- As for me, I will call vpon God: and the Lord shall saue me.
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- Euening and morning, and at noone will I pray, and crie aloud: and he shall heare my voyce.
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- He hath deliuered my soule in peace from the battell that was against me: for there were many with me.
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- God shall heare and afflict them, euen he that abideth of old, Selah: because they haue no changes, therefore they feare not God.
- 20
- He hath put foorth his handes against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his couenant.
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- The words of his mouth were smoother then butter, but warre was in his heart: his words were softer then oyle, yet were they drawen swords.
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- Cast thy burden vpon the Lord, and he shall sustaine thee: hee shall neuer suffer the righteous to bee moued.
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- But thou, O God, shalt bring them downe into the pit of destruction: Bloody and deceitfull men shall not liue out halfe their dayes, but I will trust in thee.
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