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Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
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My God, don't turn a deaf ear to my hallelujah prayer.
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O God, whom I praise, do not remain silent,
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Do not keep silent, O God of my praise!
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O God, whom I praise, don't stand silent and aloof
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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
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Liars are pouring out invective on me; Their lying tongues are like a pack of dogs out to get me,
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for wicked and deceitful men have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.
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For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
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while the wicked slander me and tell lies about me.
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They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
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barking their hate, nipping my heels--and for no reason!
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With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.
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They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
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They are all around me with their hateful words, and they fight against me for no reason.
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For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
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I loved them and now they slander me--yes, me!- and treat my prayer like a crime;
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In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
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In return for my love they are my accusers, But I give myself to prayer.
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I love them, but they try to destroy me--even as I am praying for them!
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And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
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They return my good with evil, they return my love with hate.
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They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.
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Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
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They return evil for good, and hatred for my love.
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Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
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Send the Evil One to accuse my accusing judge; dispatch Satan to prosecute him.
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Appoint an evil man to oppose him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
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Set a wicked man over him, And let an accuser stand at his right hand.
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Arrange for an evil person to turn on him. Send an accuser to bring him to trial.
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When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
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When he's judged, let the verdict be, "Guilty," and when he prays, let his prayer turn to sin.
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When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.
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When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin.
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When his case is called for judgment, let him be pronounced guilty. Count his prayers as sins.
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Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
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Give him a short life, and give his job to somebody else.
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May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.
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Let his days be few, And let another take his office.
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Let his years be few; let his position be given to someone else.
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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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Make orphans of his children, dress his wife in widow's weeds;
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May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
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Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
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May his children become fatherless, and may his wife become a widow.
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Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
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Turn his children into begging street urchins, evicted from their homes--homeless.
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May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.
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Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.
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May his children wander as beggars; may they be evicted from their ruined homes.
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Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
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May the bank foreclose and wipe him out, and strangers, like vultures, pick him clean.
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May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
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Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor.
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May creditors seize his entire estate, and strangers take all he has earned.
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Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
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May there be no one around to help him out, no one willing to give his orphans a break.
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May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
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Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
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Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children.
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Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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Chop down his family tree so that nobody even remembers his name.
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May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
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Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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May all his offspring die. May his family name be blotted out in a single generation.
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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
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But erect a memorial to the sin of his father, and make sure his mother's name is there, too--
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May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
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May the LORD never forget the sins of his ancestors; may his mother's sins never be erased from the record.
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Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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Their sins recorded forever before GOD, but they themselves sunk in oblivion.
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May their sins always remain before the LORD, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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Let them be continually before the LORD, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
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May these sins always remain before the LORD, but may his name be cut off from human memory.
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Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
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That's all he deserves since he was never once kind, hounded the afflicted and heartbroken to their graves.
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For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.
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Because he did not remember to show mercy, But persecuted the poor and needy man, That he might even slay the broken in heart.
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For he refused all kindness to others; he persecuted the poor and needy, and he hounded the brokenhearted to death.
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As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
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Since he loved cursing so much, let curses rain down; Since he had no taste for blessing, let blessings flee far from him.
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He loved to pronounce a curse- may it come on him; he found no pleasure in blessing- may it be far from him.
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As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
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He loved to curse others; now you curse him. He never blessed others; now don't you bless him.
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As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
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He dressed up in curses like a fine suit of clothes; he drank curses, took his baths in curses.
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He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.
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As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, So let it enter his body like water, And like oil into his bones.
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Cursing is as much a part of him as his clothing, or as the water he drinks, or the rich food he eats.
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Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
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So give him a gift--a costume of curses; he can wear curses every day of the week!
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May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.
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Let it be to him like the garment which covers him, And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
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Now may his curses return and cling to him like clothing; may they be tied around him like a belt.
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Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
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That's what they'll get, those out to get me--an avalanche of just deserts from GOD.
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May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers, to those who speak evil of me.
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Let this be the LORD's reward to my accusers, And to those who speak evil against my person.
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May those curses become the LORD's punishment for my accusers who are plotting against my life.
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But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
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Oh, GOD, my Lord, step in; work a miracle for me--you can do it! Get me out of here--your love is so great!-
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But you, O Sovereign LORD, deal well with me for your name's sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
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But You, O GOD the Lord, Deal with me for Your name's sake; Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.
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But deal well with me, O Sovereign LORD, for the sake of your own reputation! Rescue me because you are so faithful and good.
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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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I'm at the end of my rope, my life in ruins.
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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
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For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is full of pain.
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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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I'm fading away to nothing, passing away, my youth gone, old before my time.
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I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
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I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.
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I am fading like a shadow at dusk; I am falling like a grasshopper that is brushed aside.
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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
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I'm weak from hunger and can hardly stand up, my body a rack of skin and bones.
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My knees give way from fasting; my body is thin and gaunt.
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My knees are weak through fasting, And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
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My knees are weak from fasting, and I am skin and bones.
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I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
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I'm a joke in poor taste to those who see me; they take one look and shake their heads.
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I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
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I also have become a reproach to them; When they look at me, they shake their heads.
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I am an object of mockery to people everywhere; when they see me, they shake their heads.
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Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
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Help me, oh help me, GOD, my God, save me through your wonderful love;
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Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your love.
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Help me, O LORD my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
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Help me, O LORD my God! Save me because of your unfailing love.
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That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
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Then they'll know that your hand is in this, that you, GOD, have been at work.
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Let them know that it is your hand, that you, O LORD, have done it.
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That they may know that this is Your hand-- That You, LORD, have done it!
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Let them see that this is your doing, that you yourself have done it, LORD.
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Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
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Let them curse all they want; you do the blessing.
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They may curse, but you will bless; when they attack they will be put to shame, but your servant will rejoice.
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Let them curse, but You bless; When they arise, let them be ashamed, But let Your servant rejoice.
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Then let them curse me if they like, but you will bless me! When they attack me, they will be disgraced! But I, your servant, will go right on rejoicing!
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Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
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Let them be jeered by the crowd when they stand up, followed by cheers for me, your servant. Dress my accusers in clothes dirty with shame, discarded and humiliating old ragbag clothes.
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My accusers will be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.
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Let my accusers be clothed with shame, And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.
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Make their humiliation obvious to all; clothe my accusers with disgrace.
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I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
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My mouth's full of great praise for GOD, I'm singing his hallelujahs surrounded by crowds,
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With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD; in the great throng I will praise him.
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I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; Yes, I will praise Him among the multitude.
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But I will give repeated thanks to the LORD, praising him to everyone.
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For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
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For he's always at hand to take the side of the needy, to rescue a life from the unjust judge. A David prayer
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For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save his life from those who condemn him.
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For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, To save him from those who condemn him.
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For he stands beside the needy, ready to save them from those who condemn them.
