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 O Lord, how long will you look on? * rescue me from the roaring beasts, and my life from the young lions.

I will give you thanks in the great congregation; * I will praise you in the mighty throng.

Do not let my treacherous foes rejoice over me, * nor let those who hate me without a cause wink at each other.

For they do not plan for peace, * but invent deceitful schemes against the quiet in the land.

They opened their mouths at me and said, * “Aha! we saw it with our own eyes.”

You saw it, O ; do not be silent; * O Lord, be not far from me.

Awake, arise, to my cause! * to my defense, my God and my Lord!

Give me justice, O my God, according to your righteousness; * do not let them triumph over me.

Do not let them say in their hearts, “Aha! just what we want!” * Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Let all who rejoice at my ruin be ashamed and disgraced; * let those who boast against me be clothed with dismay and shame.

Let those who favor my cause sing out with joy and be glad; * let them say always, “Great is the , who desires the prosperity of his servant.”