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They mark my steps;

According as they have waited for my soul.

⁸Because of iniquity cast them out;

In anger bring down the peoples, O God.

⁹Thou has counted my wanderings;

Put Thou my tears into Thy bottle;

Are they not in Thy book?

¹⁰Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call;

This I know, that God is for me.

¹¹In God—I will praise His word—

In the Lord—I will praise His word—

¹²In God do I trust, I will not be afraid;

What can man do unto me?

 

¹³Thy vows are upon me, O God;

I will render thank-offerings unto Thee.

¹⁴For thou hast delivered my soul from death;

Hast Thou not delivered my feet from stumbling?

That I may walk before God in the light of the living?

57 For the Leader; Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David; Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

²Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me,

For in Thee hath my soul taken refuge;

Yea, in the shadow of Thy wings will I take refuge,

Until calamities be overpast.

³I will cry unto God Most high;

Unto God that accomplisheth it for me.

⁴He will send from heaven, and save me,

When he that would swallow me up taunteth, Selah

God shall send forth His mercy and His truth.

⁵My soul is among lions, I do lie down among them that are aflame;

Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,

And their tongue a sharp sword.

⁶Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; Thy glory be above all the earth.

⁷They have prepared a net for my steps,

My soul is bowed down;

They have digged a pit before me,

They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah

⁸My heart is stedfast, O God, my heart is stedfast;

I will sing, yea, I will sing praises.

⁹Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp;

I will awake the dawn.

¹⁰I will give thanks unto Thee, O Lord, among the peoples;

I will sing praises unto Thee among the nations.

¹¹For Thy mercy is great unto the heavens,

And Thy truth unto the skies.

¹²Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens;

Thy glory be above all the earth.

58 For the Leader; Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David; Michtam.

²Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company?

Do ye judge with equity the sons of men?

³Yea, in heart ye work wickedness;

Ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.

⁴The wicked are estranged from the womb;

The speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.

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