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They (A)stir up strife, they (B)lurk;
    they (C)watch my steps,
    as they have waited for my life.
For their crime will they escape?
    (D)In wrath (E)cast down the peoples, O God!
You have kept count of my tossings;[a]
    (F)put my tears in your bottle.
    (G)Are they not in your book?

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  1. Psalm 56:8 Or wanderings

They conspire,(A) they lurk,
    they watch my steps,(B)
    hoping to take my life.(C)
Because of their wickedness do not[a] let them escape;(D)
    in your anger, God, bring the nations down.(E)

Record my misery;
    list my tears on your scroll[b](F)
    are they not in your record?(G)

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  1. Psalm 56:7 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have do not.
  2. Psalm 56:8 Or misery; / put my tears in your wineskin