For I am in distress; answer me speedily.
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it :
Ransom me because of mine enemies.

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Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and 19

my dishonour :

Mine adversaries are all before thee.

1 Or, sore sick Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am 1full 20

2 See Deut. xxix. 18.

3 Or, encampment

4 Or, pain

5 Or, the living

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of heaviness:

And I looked for some to take pity, but there

was none;

And for comforters, but I found none.
They gave me also 'gall for my meat;

And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Let their table before them become a snare;
And when they are in peace, let it become a
trap.

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Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; 23
And make their loins continually to shake.
Pour out thine indignation upon them,

And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake

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For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; 26 And they tell of the 'sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.

Add iniquity unto their iniquity:

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And let them not come into thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of life,
And not be written with the righteous.

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Or, in pain But I am poor and sorrowful:

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Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
I will praise the name of God with a song,
And will magnify him with thanksgiving.
And it shall please the LORD better than an ox, 31
Or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
The meek have seen it, and are glad:
Ye that seek after God, let your heart live.

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33 For the LORD heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners.

34 Let heaven and earth praise him,

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The seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
For God will save Zion, and build the cities of
Judah;

And they shall abide there, and have it in
possession.

36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it;
And they that love his name shall dwell therein.

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; 1to
bring to remembrance.

I 'Make haste, O God, to deliver me;

Make haste to help me, O Lord.

2 Let them be ashamed and confounded

That seek after my soul:

Let them be turned backward and brought to

dishonour

That delight in my hurt.

1 Or, to make memorial

2 See Ps. xl. 13-17.

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reward of

3 Let them be turned back by reason of their Or, for a shame

That say, Aha, Aha.

4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad

in thee;

And let such as love thy salvation say con

tinually,

Let God be magnified.

5 But I am poor and needy; Make haste unto me, O God: Thou art my help and my

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O LORD, make no tarrying.

deliverer;

71 I 'In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: Let me never be ashamed.

2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue

me:

Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me.

4 See Ps.

xxxi. 1-3.

1 According to

some ancient authorities,

a strong rock, whereunto &c.

2 Or, Thou

hast been my benefactor from &c.

Be thou to me 1a rock of habitation, whereunto 3
I may continually resort:

Thou hast given commandment to save me;
For thou art my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the 4
wicked,

Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel

man.

For thou art my hope, O Lord God:

Thou art my trust from my youth.

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By thee have I been holden up from the 6 womb:

2 Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels :

My praise shall be continually of thee.

I am as a wonder unto many;

But thou art my strong refuge.

My mouth shall be filled with thy praise,
And with thy honour all the day.
Cast me not off in the time of old
Forsake me not when my strength faileth.
For mine enemies speak concerning me;

age;

And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

Saying, God hath forsaken him :

Pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.

O God, be not far from me:

O my God, make haste to help me.

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Let them be ashamed and consumed that are 13 adversaries to my soul;

Let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually,

And will praise thee yet more and more.
My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness,

And of thy salvation all the day;

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For I know not the numbers thereof.

1

16 I will come 'with the mighty acts of the Lord Or, in the GOD:

I will make mention of thy righteousness, even
of thine only.

17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth ;
And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous
works.

18 Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O
God, forsake me not;

Until I have declared 'thy strength unto the
next generation,

Thy might to every one that is to come.

19 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; Thou who hast done great things,

O God, who is like unto thee?

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strength

2

Heb. unto old age and gray hairs.

3 Heb. thine

arm.

20 Thou, which hast shewed us many and sore Another

troubles,

Shalt quicken 'us again,

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And shalt bring us up again from the depths

of the earth.

21 Increase thou my greatness,

And turn again and comfort me.

22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery,

Even thy truth, O my God:

Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp,

O thou Holy One of Israel.

23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing praises unto thee;

And my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness
all the day long :

For they are ashamed, for they are confounded,
that seek my hurt.

A Psalm of Solomon.

I Give the king thy judgements, O God,
And thy righteousness unto the king's son.

reading is, me.

5 Or, Let him

and so throughout

2' He shall judge thy people with righteousness, the Psalm.

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And thy poor with judgement.

The mountains shall bring peace to the people, 3
And the hills, in righteousness.

He shall judge the poor of the people,
He shall save the children of the needy,
And shall break in pieces the oppressor.

They shall fear thee while the sun endureth,

Heb. before And 'so long as the moon, throughout all generations.

the moon,

2 See Exod. xxiii. 31.

3 Or, render tribute

5

He shall come down like rain upon the mown 6 grass:

As showers that water the earth.

In his days shall the righteous flourish;

And abundance of peace, till the moon be no

more.

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He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
And from the River unto the ends of the earth.
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow 9
before him;

And his enemies shall lick the dust.

The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall 10
"bring presents:

The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him:

All nations shall serve him.

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For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; 12

Or, and him And the poor, 'that hath no helper.

that hath

5 Or, weak

5

He shall have pity on the poor and needy,
And the souls of the needy he shall save.

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He shall redeem their soul from "oppression and 14

violence;

And precious shall their blood be in his sight:
And they shall live; and to him shall be given 15
of the gold of Sheba :

And men shall pray for him continually;
'They shall bless him all the day long.

There shall be abundance of corn in the earth 16
upon the top of the mountains;