Holy Scripture
Psalms 56:6
A church father on this verse
“"They shall sojourn, and shall hide" [Psalm 56:6]. To sojourn is to be in a strange land. Sojourners is a term used of those then that live in a country not their own. Every man in this life is a foreigner: in which life ye see that with flesh we are covered round, through which flesh the heart cannot be seen. Therefo…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; And thy glory above all the earth.
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4He sent from heaven and saved me; He gave to reproach them that trampled on me: God has sent forth his mercy and his truth;
5And he has delivered my soul from the midst of lions’ whelps: I lay down to sleep, though troubled. As for the sons of men, their teeth are arms and missile weapons, And their tongue a sharp sword.
— Psalms 56:6 —
7They have prepared snares for my feet, And have bowed down my soul: They have dug a pit before my face, And fallen into it themselves. Pause.
8My heart, O God, is ready, My heart is ready: I will sing, yea will sing psalms.