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20 Preserve my soul and rescue me;
    do not let me be disgraced, for in you I seek refuge.
21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me;
    I wait for you, O Lord.
22 [a]Redeem Israel, O God,
    from all its distress!

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Footnotes

  1. 25:22 A final verse beginning with the Hebrew letter pe is added to the normal twenty-two-letter alphabet. Thus the letters aleph, lamed, and pe open the first, middle (Ps 25:11), and last lines of the Psalm. Together, they spell aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, from a Hebrew root that means “to learn.”

20 Guard my life(A) and rescue me;(B)
    do not let me be put to shame,(C)
    for I take refuge(D) in you.
21 May integrity(E) and uprightness(F) protect me,
    because my hope, Lord,[a] is in you.(G)

22 Deliver Israel,(H) O God,
    from all their troubles!

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  1. Psalm 25:21 Septuagint; Hebrew does not have Lord.