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Have mercy on me, God,
    have mercy on me.
    In you I seek refuge.
In the shadow of your wings[a] I seek refuge
    till harm pass by.(A)
I call to God Most High,
    to God who provides for me.
May God send help from heaven to save me,
    shame those who trample upon me.
    May God send fidelity and mercy.
Selah
I must lie down in the midst of lions
    hungry for human prey.(B)
Their teeth are spears and arrows;
    their tongue, a sharpened sword.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 57:2 The shadow of your wings: probably refers to the wings of the cherubim (powerful winged animals) whose wings spread over the ark in the inner chamber of the Temple (1 Kgs 6:23–28).