113-120 I hate the two-faced,
    but I love your clear-cut revelation.
You’re my place of quiet retreat;
    I wait for your Word to renew me.
Get out of my life, evildoers,
    so I can keep my God’s commands.
Take my side as you promised; I’ll live then for sure.
    Don’t disappoint all my grand hopes.
Stick with me and I’ll be all right;
    I’ll give total allegiance to your definitions of life.
Expose all who drift away from your sayings;
    their casual idolatry is lethal.
You reject earth’s wicked as so much rubbish;
    therefore I lovingly embrace everything you say.
I shiver in awe before you;
    your decisions leave me speechless with reverence.

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117 Uphold me,(A) and I will be delivered;(B)
    I will always have regard for your decrees.(C)
118 You reject all who stray(D) from your decrees,
    for their delusions come to nothing.
119 All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross;(E)
    therefore I love your statutes.(F)

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