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Psalm 54:3

Modern English Version

For strangers have risen against me, and oppressors seek my life; they do not set God before them. Selah

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I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

may He send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you from Zion;

For dogs have encompassed me; the assembly of the wicked has encircled me; they pierced my hands and my feet;

An oracle within my heart about the transgression of the wicked: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together who seek to snatch away my life; let them be driven backward and dishonored who desire my hurt.

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly people; deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother’s children;

O God, insolent men have risen against me; a band of violent men have sought my life, and they have not set You before them.

They will do these things to you, because they have not known the Father nor Me.