8 Then I remembered your mercy, O Lord, and your working which has been from everlasting, how you deliver those who wait for you, and save them out of the hand of their enemies. (WEB) 9 I lifted up my prayer from the earth, and prayed for deliverance from death. (WEB) 10 I called upon the Lord, the Father of my Lord, that he would not forsake me in the days of affliction, in the time when there was no help against the proud. (WEB)
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