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13 I am forgotten, out of mind like the dead;
    I am like a worn-out tool.[a]
14 I hear the whispers of the crowd;
    terrors are all around me.[b]
They conspire together against me;
    they plot to take my life.
15 But I trust in you, Lord;
    I say, “You are my God.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 31:13 Like a worn-out tool: a common comparison for something ruined and useless, cf. Is 30:14; Jer 19:11; 22:28.
  2. 31:14 Terrors are all around me: a cry used in inescapable danger, cf. Jer 6:25; 20:10; 46:5; 49:29.

13 For I hear many whispering,(A)
    “Terror on every side!”(B)
They conspire against me(C)
    and plot to take my life.(D)

14 But I trust(E) in you, Lord;
    I say, “You are my God.”
15 My times(F) are in your hands;
    deliver me from the hands of my enemies,
    from those who pursue me.

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