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Rh :Say unto my soul: 'I am Thy salvation.'
 * Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after my soul;
 * Let them be turned back and be abashed that devise my hurt.
 * Let them be as chaff before the wind,
 * The angel of the thrusting them.
 * Let their way be dark and slippery,
 * The angel of the pursuing them.
 * For without cause have they hid for me the pit, even their net,
 * Without cause have they digged for my soul.
 * Let destruction come upon him unawares;
 * And let his net that he hath hid catch himself;
 * With destruction let him fall therein.
 * And my soul shall be joyful in the ;
 * It shall rejoice in His salvation.
 * All my bones shall say: ', who is like unto Thee,
 * Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him,
 * Yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?'


 * Unrighteous witnesses rise up;
 * They ask me of things that I know not.
 * They repay me evil for good;
 * Bereavement is come to my soul.
 * But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth,
 * I afflicted my soul with fasting;
 * And my prayer, may it return into mine own bosom.
 * I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother;
 * I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother.
 * But when I halt they rejoice, and gather themselves together;
 * The abjects gather themselves together against me, and those whom I know not;
 * They tear me, and cease not;
 * With the profanest mockeries of backbiting
 * They gnash at me with their teeth.


 * Lord, how long wilt Thou look on?
 * Rescue my soul from their destructions,
 * Mine only one from the lions.
 * I will give Thee thanks in the great congregation;
 * I will praise Thee among a numerous people.
 * Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me;
 * Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
 * For they speak not peace;
 * But they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
 * Yea, they open their mouth wide against me;
 * They say: 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.'
 * Thou hast seen, O ; keep not silence;
 * O Lord, be not far from me.
 * Rouse Thee, and awake to my judgment,
 * Even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
 * Judge me, O my God, according to Thy righteousness;
 * And let them not rejoice over me.
 * Let them not say in their heart: 'Aha, we have our desire';
 * Let them not say: 'We have swallowed him up.'
 * Let them be ashamed and abashed together that rejoice at my hurt;