They encircle me with words of hate,
    and attack me (A)without cause.

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(A)More in number than the hairs of my head
    are (B)those who hate me (C)without cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
    (D)those who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
    must I now restore?

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For (A)without cause (B)they hid their net for me;
    without cause they dug (C)a pit for my life.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 35:7 The word pit is transposed from the preceding line; Hebrew For without cause they hid the pit of their net for me; without cause they dug for my life

24 (A)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, (B)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have (C)seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But (D)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: (E)‘They hated me without a cause.’

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12 [a] Ephraim (A)has surrounded me with lies,
    and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
    and is faithful to the Holy One.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:12 Ch 12:1 in Hebrew

17 They (A)surround me like a flood (B)all day long;
    they (C)close in on me together.

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For behold, they (A)lie in wait for my life;
    fierce men (B)stir up strife against me.
(C)For no transgression or sin of mine, O Lord,
    for no fault of mine, they run and make ready.
(D)Awake, come to meet me, and see!

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20 For they do not speak peace,
    but against those who are quiet in the land
    they devise words of deceit.

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12 Many bulls encompass me;
    (A)strong bulls of (B)Bashan surround me;

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11 They have now surrounded our (A)steps;
    they set their eyes to (B)cast us to the ground.

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And Shimei said as he (A)cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man! The Lord (B)has avenged on you all (C)the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.”

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12 And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for[a] (A)Ahithophel the Gilonite, (B)David's counselor, from his city (C)Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom (D)kept increasing.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:12 Or sent

18 And he said, (A)“Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What evil is on my hands?

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And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king (A)sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you. For (B)he took his life in his hand (C)and he struck down the Philistine, (D)and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against (E)innocent blood by killing David without cause?”

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