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So many say that God will never help me. But Lord, you are my shield, my glory, and my only hope. You alone can lift my head, now bowed in shame.[a]

I cried out to the Lord, and he heard me from his Temple in Jerusalem.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 3:3 now bowed in shame, implied.
  2. Psalm 3:4 from his Temple in Jerusalem, literally, “from his holy mountain.”

Many are saying of me,
    “God will not deliver him.(A)[a]

But you, Lord, are a shield(B) around me,
    my glory, the One who lifts my head high.(C)
I call out to the Lord,(D)
    and he answers me from his holy mountain.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 3:2 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 4 and 8.

Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

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