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Their hearts devise evil! They conspire against me;
    they are constantly causing a storm of war.
These snakes have sharpened their tongues;
    viper venom hides beneath their lips.[a]

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Keep me from the grip of these cruel men, O Eternal One.
    Shield me from this band of violent men
    whose only intention is to trip me up and undermine all I do.

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Footnotes

  1. 140:3 Romans 3:13
  2. 140:3 Literally, selah, likely a musical direction from a Hebrew root meaning “to lift up”

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