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16 They mocked me with ever increasing fury
    as they gnashed their teeth at me.
17 How long,[a]Lord, will you look on?
    Rescue me from these ravening beasts;
    preserve my precious life from these lions.
18 I will offer you thanks in the great assembly;
    I will praise you amid the vast throng.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 35:17 How long . . . ?: see note on Ps 6:4. Lions: a metaphor for enemies.

16 Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked;[a](A)
    they gnashed their teeth(B) at me.

17 How long,(C) Lord, will you look on?
    Rescue me from their ravages,
    my precious life(D) from these lions.(E)
18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly;(F)
    among the throngs(G) I will praise you.(H)

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  1. Psalm 35:16 Septuagint; Hebrew may mean Like an ungodly circle of mockers,