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Psalm 17:4-16 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

4. Praising, I will call upon the Lord. And I will be saved from my enemies.

5. The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me.

6. The sorrows of Hell encompassed me, and the snares of death intercepted me.

7. In my tribulation, I called upon the Lord, and I cried out to my God. And he listened to my voice from his holy temple. And my cry in his presence entered into his ears.

8. The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them.

9. A smoke ascended by his wrath, and a fire flared up from his face: coals were kindled by it.

10. He bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet.

11. And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew: he flew upon the feathers of the winds.

12. And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

13. At the brightness that was before his sight, the clouds crossed by, with hail and coals of fire.

14. And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.

15. And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them. He multiplied lightnings, and he set them in disarray.

16. Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were revealed, by your rebuke, O Lord, by the inspiration of the Spirit of your wrath.

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