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<h6 style="color: #339900; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 15px;" align="center">Through My Bible &#8211; December 20</h6>
<p>Psalm 140 &#8211; 141 (EHV)<br />
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<h4 class="chapter"><span id="en-EHV-16263" class="text Ps-140-1">Psalm 140</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-140-1">Rescue Me From Evil Men</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-140-1">Heading<br />
For the choir director. A psalm by David.</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-140-1">Plea for Deliverance</span></h4>
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<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-140-1"><sup class="versenum">1 </sup>Keep me safe, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, from the evil man.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-1">Protect me from the violent man,</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16264" class="text Ps-140-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>who plans evil in his heart.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-2">Every day they gather for battle.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16265" class="text Ps-140-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>They sharpen their tongues like a snake. <span class="selah">Interlude</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-3">The poison of vipers is under their lips.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16266" class="text Ps-140-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Keep me safe, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, from the hands of the wicked.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-4">Protect me from the violent man, who plans to trip my feet.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16267" class="text Ps-140-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>The proud have hidden a snare for me, and ropes.<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [1]</sup></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-5">They have spread out a net along my route. <span class="selah">Interlude</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-5">They have set traps for me.</span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16268" class="text Ps-140-6">Confidence</span></h4>
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<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-140-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>I say to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, “You are my God.”</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-6">Hear, O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, the sound of my cry for mercy.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16269" class="text Ps-140-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, my Lord, the strength of my salvation,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-7">you cover my head on the day for weapons.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16270" class="text Ps-140-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Do not grant, O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, the desires of the wicked.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-8">Do not let their scheme succeed when they rise up.<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [2]</sup> <span class="selah">Interlude</span></span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16271" class="text Ps-140-9">Plea for Justice</span></h4>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-140-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>May the trouble caused by their lips</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-140-9">fall on the heads of those who surround me.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16272" class="text Ps-140-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>Let burning coals fall on them.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-10">Cause them to fall into the fire,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-10">or into pits from which they will never rise.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16273" class="text Ps-140-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Do not let the slanderer<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [3]</sup> be established in the land.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-11">As for the man of violence—</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-11">may evil hunt him and beat him down.</span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16274" class="text Ps-140-12">Confidence</span></h4>
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<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-140-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>I know that the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will provide justice for the oppressed,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-140-12">judgment for the poor.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16275" class="text Ps-140-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-13">The upright will live in your presence.</span></p>
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<h4 class="chapter"><span id="en-EHV-16276" class="text Ps-141-1">Psalm 141</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-141-1">Guard My Lips and Heart</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-141-1">Heading<br />
A psalm by David.</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-141-1">Accept My Prayer</span></h4>
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<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-141-1"><sup class="versenum">1 </sup><span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, I call to you. Hurry to me.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-1">Turn your ear toward my voice when I call to you.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16277" class="text Ps-141-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>May my prayer linger before you like incense,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-2">the lifting up of my hands like an evening offering.</span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16278" class="text Ps-141-3">Guard My Heart and Mouth</span></h4>
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<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-141-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>Set a guard over my mouth, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-3">Keep watch over the door of my lips.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16279" class="text Ps-141-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Do not let my heart turn toward anything evil,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-4">to take part in wicked deeds with men who do evil.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-4">Let me not taste their delicacies.</span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16280" class="text Ps-141-5">Correct Me</span></h4>
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<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Let a righteous man strike me—it is mercy.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-5">Let him rebuke me—it is lotion<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [4]</sup> on my head.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-5">My head will not refuse it.</span></p>
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<h4><span class="text Ps-141-5">Reject the Wicked</span></h4>
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<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-141-5">But my prayer is still against their evil deeds.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16281" class="text Ps-141-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Their rulers will be thrown down by the sides of the cliff,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-6">and they will hear that my words were pleasant.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16282" class="text Ps-141-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>They will say,<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [5]</sup> “As one splits and breaks up the earth,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-7">so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”</span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16283" class="text Ps-141-8">Closing Plea</span></h4>
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<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-141-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>But my eyes look to you, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> God.<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [6]</sup></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-8">In you I take refuge. Do not take away my life.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16284" class="text Ps-141-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>Keep me from the snares they have set for me,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-9">from the traps of the evildoers.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16285" class="text Ps-141-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.</span></p>
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<h4>Footnotes</h4>
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<li id="fen-EHV-16267a">Psalm 140:5 <span class="footnote-text">This word seems to dangle and is omitted by many translators.</span></li>
<li id="fen-EHV-16270b">Psalm 140:8 <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>so that they are not exalted</i></span></li>
<li id="fen-EHV-16273c">Psalm 140:11 <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>boaster</i></span></li>
<li id="fen-EHV-16280d">Psalm 141:5 <span class="footnote-text">Literally <i>oil</i></span></li>
<li id="fen-EHV-16282e">Psalm 141:7 <span class="footnote-text">The words <i>they will say</i> are added to clarify who is speaking.</span></li>
<li id="fen-EHV-16283f">Psalm 141:8 <span class="footnote-text"><i>Yahweh Adonai</i>, which the Jews read as if it was <i>God the Lord</i></span></li>
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Through My Bible Yr 02 – December 20
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<h6 style="color: #339900; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 15px;" align="center">Through My Bible – December 20</h6>
<p>Psalm 140 – 141 (EHV)<br />
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<h4 class="chapter"><span id="en-EHV-16263" class="text Ps-140-1">Psalm 140</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-140-1">Rescue Me From Evil Men</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-140-1">Heading<br />
For the choir director. A psalm by David.</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-140-1">Plea for Deliverance</span></h4>
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<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-140-1"><sup class="versenum">1 </sup>Keep me safe, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, from the evil man.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-1">Protect me from the violent man,</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16264" class="text Ps-140-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>who plans evil in his heart.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-2">Every day they gather for battle.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16265" class="text Ps-140-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>They sharpen their tongues like a snake. <span class="selah">Interlude</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-3">The poison of vipers is under their lips.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16266" class="text Ps-140-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Keep me safe, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, from the hands of the wicked.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-4">Protect me from the violent man, who plans to trip my feet.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16267" class="text Ps-140-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>The proud have hidden a snare for me, and ropes.<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [1]</sup></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-5">They have spread out a net along my route. <span class="selah">Interlude</span></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-5">They have set traps for me.</span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16268" class="text Ps-140-6">Confidence</span></h4>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-140-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>I say to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, “You are my God.”</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-6">Hear, O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, the sound of my cry for mercy.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16269" class="text Ps-140-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, my Lord, the strength of my salvation,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-7">you cover my head on the day for weapons.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16270" class="text Ps-140-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Do not grant, O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, the desires of the wicked.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-8">Do not let their scheme succeed when they rise up.<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [2]</sup> <span class="selah">Interlude</span></span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16271" class="text Ps-140-9">Plea for Justice</span></h4>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-140-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>May the trouble caused by their lips</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-140-9">fall on the heads of those who surround me.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16272" class="text Ps-140-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>Let burning coals fall on them.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-10">Cause them to fall into the fire,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-10">or into pits from which they will never rise.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16273" class="text Ps-140-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Do not let the slanderer<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [3]</sup> be established in the land.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-11">As for the man of violence—</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-11">may evil hunt him and beat him down.</span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16274" class="text Ps-140-12">Confidence</span></h4>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-140-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>I know that the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> will provide justice for the oppressed,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-140-12">judgment for the poor.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16275" class="text Ps-140-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-140-13">The upright will live in your presence.</span></p>
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<h4 class="chapter"><span id="en-EHV-16276" class="text Ps-141-1">Psalm 141</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-141-1">Guard My Lips and Heart</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-141-1">Heading<br />
A psalm by David.</span></h4>
<h4><span class="text Ps-141-1">Accept My Prayer</span></h4>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-141-1"><sup class="versenum">1 </sup><span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>, I call to you. Hurry to me.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-1">Turn your ear toward my voice when I call to you.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16277" class="text Ps-141-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>May my prayer linger before you like incense,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-2">the lifting up of my hands like an evening offering.</span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16278" class="text Ps-141-3">Guard My Heart and Mouth</span></h4>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-141-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>Set a guard over my mouth, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-3">Keep watch over the door of my lips.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16279" class="text Ps-141-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>Do not let my heart turn toward anything evil,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-4">to take part in wicked deeds with men who do evil.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-4">Let me not taste their delicacies.</span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16280" class="text Ps-141-5">Correct Me</span></h4>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-141-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Let a righteous man strike me—it is mercy.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-5">Let him rebuke me—it is lotion<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [4]</sup> on my head.</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-5">My head will not refuse it.</span></p>
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<h4><span class="text Ps-141-5">Reject the Wicked</span></h4>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-141-5">But my prayer is still against their evil deeds.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16281" class="text Ps-141-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>Their rulers will be thrown down by the sides of the cliff,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-6">and they will hear that my words were pleasant.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16282" class="text Ps-141-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>They will say,<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [5]</sup> “As one splits and breaks up the earth,</span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-7">so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”</span></p>
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<h4><span id="en-EHV-16283" class="text Ps-141-8">Closing Plea</span></h4>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="line"><span class="text Ps-141-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>But my eyes look to you, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span> God.<sup style="font-size: 0.525em; line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; display: inline;"> [6]</sup></span><br />
<span class="text Ps-141-8">In you I take refuge. Do not take away my life.</span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16284" class="text Ps-141-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>Keep me from the snares they have set for me,</span><br />
<span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text Ps-141-9">from the traps of the evildoers.</span></span><br />
<span id="en-EHV-16285" class="text Ps-141-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.</span></p>
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<div class="footnotes">
<h4>Footnotes</h4>
<ol>
<li id="fen-EHV-16267a">Psalm 140:5 <span class="footnote-text">This word seems to dangle and is omitted by many translators.</span></li>
<li id="fen-EHV-16270b">Psalm 140:8 <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>so that they are not exalted</i></span></li>
<li id="fen-EHV-16273c">Psalm 140:11 <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>boaster</i></span></li>
<li id="fen-EHV-16280d">Psalm 141:5 <span class="footnote-text">Literally <i>oil</i></span></li>
<li id="fen-EHV-16282e">Psalm 141:7 <span class="footnote-text">The words <i>they will say</i> are added to clarify who is speaking.</span></li>
<li id="fen-EHV-16283f">Psalm 141:8 <span class="footnote-text"><i>Yahweh Adonai</i>, which the Jews read as if it was <i>God the Lord</i></span></li>
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