Be merciful to me, O God
(1 Samuel 21:8-15)
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God, act mercifully toward me because men are attacking me! All day long an enemy presses closer and closer to me because they want to take my life.
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All day long my enemies seek to crush the life from me, there are many enemies attacking me!
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But whenever I am afraid, I trust in you.
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God, I praise you because you do what you have promised; I trust in you, and then I am not afraid. Ordinary humans certainly cannot harm me!
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All day long my enemies claim that I said things that I did not say; they are always thinking of ways to harm me.
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In order to cause trouble for me, they hide and watch everything that I do, waiting for an opportunity to kill me.
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So, God, punish them for the wicked things that they are doing; show that you are angry by defeating those people!
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You have counted all the times that I have been wandering alone; it is as though you have put all my tears in a bottle so that you can see how much I have cried. You have counted my tears and written the number in your book.
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When I call out to you, my God, my enemies will be defeated; I know that will happen because you are fighting for me.
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I praise you that you do what you have promised; Yahweh, I will always praise you for that.
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I trust in you, and as a result, I will not be afraid. I know that humans cannot really harm me!
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I will bring to you the offering that I promised; I will bring an offering to you to thank you
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because you have rescued me from being killed; you have kept me from stumbling. And so I will continue to live with God every day in his light that gives me life.
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