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Psalm 56:6-8
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6 They conspire and lurk,
    watching my steps.
    They are eager to take my life.
7 Shall they escape by iniquity?
    In anger cast down the peoples, God.
8 You count my wanderings.
    You put my tears into your container.
    Aren’t they in your book?

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Psalm 56:6-8
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6 They conspire,(A) they lurk,
    they watch my steps,(B)
    hoping to take my life.(C)
7 Because of their wickedness do not[a] let them escape;(D)
    in your anger, God, bring the nations down.(E)

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

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Footnotes

  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
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