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Psalm 54:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For the insolent have risen against me; the ruthless seek my life; they do not set God before them. Selah

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I keep 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 give you support from Zion.

For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they bound my hands and feet.

Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in their hearts; there is no fear of God before their eyes.

Let all those be put to shame and confusion who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt.

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust, deliver me!

Have they no knowledge, those evildoers, who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon God?

I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother’s children.

O God, the insolent rise up against me; a band of ruffians seeks my life, and they do not set you before them.

And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.