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I lie prostrate in the midst of lions
    who are hungrily seeking human prey.
Their teeth are spears and arrows,
    and their tongues are razor-sharp swords.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;
    let your glory shine over all the earth.[a]
They set a trap for my feet,
    and I was overcome with distress.
They dug a pit in my path,
    but they themselves fell into it. Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 57:6 The psalmist asks that the kingdom of God may be manifested (see Ps 72:19; Num 14:21; 1 Chr 29:11; Isa 6:3; 33:10; Hab 2:14) by the deliverance of the faithful and the ruin of the wicked (see Pss 79:9; 102:16f; 138:5).