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Deliver me from my enemies, O my God, "" Set me on high from my withstanders.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Deliver me from workers of iniquity, "" And save me from men of blood.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For behold, they laid wait for my soul, "" Strong ones are assembled against me, "" Not my transgression nor my sin, O YHWH.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, "" Stir up to meet me, and see.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And You, YHWH, God of Hosts, God of Israel, "" Awake to inspect all the nations. Do not favor any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They return at evening, "" They make a noise like a dog, "" And go around the city.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, they belch out with their mouths, "" Swords [are] in their lips, for “Who hears?”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And You, O YHWH, laugh at them, "" You mock at all the nations.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>O my Strength, to You I take heed, "" For God [is] my tower—the God of my kindness.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>God goes before me, "" He causes me to look on my enemies.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not slay them, lest my people forget, "" Shake them by Your strength, "" And bring them down, O Lord our shield.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The sin of their mouth [is] a word of their lips, "" And they are captured in their pride, "" And they recount from the curse and lying.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Consume in fury, consume and they are not, "" And they know that God is ruling in Jacob, "" To the ends of the earth. Selah.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they return at evening, "" They make a noise like a dog, "" And they go around the city.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They wander for food, "" If they are not satisfied—then they murmur.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And I sing of Your strength, "" And at morning I sing of Your kindness, "" For You have been a tower to me, "" And a refuge for me in a day of adversity.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/59-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>O my Strength, I sing praise to You, "" For God [is] my tower, the God of my kindness!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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