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Their mouths pour out insult;
    sharp words are on their lips.
    They say: “Who is there to hear?”[a]
But you, Lord, laugh at them;
    you deride all the nations.(A)
10 My strength, for you I watch;
    you, God, are my fortress,

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Footnotes

  1. 59:8 Who is there to hear?: a sample of the enemies’ godless reflection. The answer is that God hears their blasphemies.

But you laugh at them, Lord;(A)
    you scoff at all those nations.(B)

You are my strength,(C) I watch for you;
    you, God, are my fortress,(D)
10     my God on whom I can rely.

God will go before me
    and will let me gloat over those who slander me.

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