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Psalm chapter 109 verse 21.

But you, oh God, my lord, deal on my behalf for your namesake because your steadfast love is good, deliver

me.

What a verse, about two-thirds of the way through this Psalm?

So David's writing it and it starts by him saying to God,

Be not silent, O God of my praise, for wicked, of my praise.

For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

They encircle me with words of hate and attack me without cause.

David is being attacked here by people who are coming after him with deceitful mouths and lying tongues encircling him with words of hate and

he is looking to God.

He says be not silent oh God of my praise.

Even that in and of itself is so instructive for us

when we are walking through challenges of any kinds,

whether that's attacks coming against us

or any challenges, trials that we're facing in this world

to immediately look to God to say, oh God of my praise, I'm looking to you as my

defender amidst these trials.

My provider amidst these trials.

I'm looking to you.

And then you get down to verse 21,

which I read, and he says you oh God my lord deal on my behalf for

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