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II

Keep me, Lord, from the clutches of the wicked;
    preserve me from the violent,
    who plot to trip me up.(A)
[a]The arrogant have set a trap for me;
    they have spread out ropes for a net,
    laid snares for me by the wayside.
Selah
I say to the Lord: You are my God;(B)
    listen, Lord, to the words of my pleas.

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Footnotes

  1. 140:6 Have set a trap…have spread out ropes for a net: the same figure, of hunters setting traps, occurs in Ps 9:16; 31:5; 35:7; 64:6, cf. Mt 22:15; Lk 11:54.