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Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;

Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.