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Psalm 55

1Give ear to my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my supplication.

2Attend to me, and answer me; I am troubled in my complaint. I am distraught

3by the noise of the enemy, because of the clamor of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.

4My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

5Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.

6And I say, “O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;

7truly, I would flee far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah

8I would hurry to find a shelter for myself from the raging wind and tempest.”

9Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city.

10Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;

11ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.

12It is not enemies who taunt me— I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me— I could hide from them.

13But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend,

14with whom I kept pleasant company; we walked in the house of God with the throng.

15Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol; for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.

16But I call upon God, and the Lord will save me.

17Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.

18He will redeem me unharmed from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.

19God, who is enthroned from of old, Selah will hear, and will humble them— because they do not change, and do not fear God.

20My companion laid hands on a friend and violated a covenant with me

21with speech smoother than butter, but with a heart set on war; with words that were softer than oil, but in fact were drawn swords.

22Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

23But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Psalm 74

1O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

2Remember your congregation, which you acquired long ago, which you redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage. Remember Mount Zion, where you came to dwell.

3Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary.

4Your foes have roared within your holy place; they set up their emblems there.

5At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.

6And then, with hatchets and hammers, they smashed all its carved work.

7They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrated the dwelling place of your name, bringing it to the ground.

8They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

9We do not see our emblems; there is no longer any prophet, and there is no one among us who knows how long.

10How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

11Why do you hold back your hand; why do you keep your hand in your bosom?

12Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the earth.

13You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.

14You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

15You cut openings for springs and torrents; you dried up ever-flowing streams.

16Yours is the day, yours also the night; you established the luminaries and the sun.

17You have fixed all the bounds of the earth; you made summer and winter.

18Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles your name.

19Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild animals; do not forget the life of your poor forever.

20Have regard for your covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.

21Do not let the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.

22Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember how the impious scoff at you all day long.

23Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of your adversaries that goes up continually.

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