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To the Director: A special Davidic psalm[a] to the tune of[b] “Do Not Destroy,” when he fled from Saul into a cave.

A Prayer for Deliverance

57 Have mercy on me, God, have mercy,
    for in you I[c] have placed my trust.
Even in the shadow of your wings
    will I find my refuge until this calamity passes.

I call upon the God Most High;
    to the God who completes what he began[d] in me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 57:1 The Heb. reads miktam
  2. Psalm 57:1 Lit. David according to
  3. Psalm 57:1 Or my soul
  4. Psalm 57:2 The Heb. lacks what he began