[1] To you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
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[2] Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.
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[3] Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
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[4] Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
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[5] Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
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[6] Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.
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[7] The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.
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[8] The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
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[9] Save your people, and bless your inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
