To the chief musician, al-taskith, a miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch the house to kill him
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📚✭✭Deliver me from my enemies,O my God.
Defend me from those who rise up
against me.
2 📚Deliver me from those
who do evil,
and save me from bloodthirsty men.
3 📚For, see, they lie in wait
for my life.
The mighty have gathered against me;
not because of transgression
or sin of
mine, O LORD.
4 📚✭They run and make themselves ready,
without fault of mine.
Awake to help me and see!
5 📚✭Therefore, O LORD God of hosts,
the God of Israel,
awake to punish all the nations.
Do not be merciful to any wicked
transgressors. Selah
6 📚✭They return at evening.
They snarl like a dog,
and go around the city.
7 📚See, they spew out
with their mouth.
Swords are in their lips,
for they say, “Who hears?”
8 📚✭But you, O LORD, will laugh
at them.
You will scoff at all the nations.
9 📚Because of his strength
I will wait for you;
for God is my defense.
10 📚✭My merciful God will go
before me.
God will let me see my desire
on my enemies.
11 📚✭Do not kill them,
so that my people will
not forget.
Scatter them by your power,
and bring them down,
O Lord our shield.
12 📚For the sin of their mouth
and the words of their lips
let them be taken in their pride,
and for the curses and lies which
they speak.
13 📚Consume them in wrath;
consume them, so that they
may be no more,
and let them know that God rules
in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah
14 📚And at evening they return,
and they snarl like a dog
and go around the city.
15 📚They wander up and down
for food,
and howl if they are not satisfied.
16 📚✭But I will sing of your power.
Yes, in the morning I will sing aloud
of your mercy,
for you have been my defense
and refuge in the day of my trouble.
17 📚To you, O my strength, I will sing;
for God is my defense,
and my merciful God.