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power hath prophesied aforetime through David in the thirty-fourth Psalm, saying thus
concerning the ninth repentance of Pistis Sophia:

3. "'Give sentence, O Lord, on them who do me injustice, and fight against them
who fight against me.
4. "'Lay hand on weapon and shield and stand up to help me.
5. "'Draw forth a sword and conceal it [sic] from my oppressors. Say unto my soul: I
am thy salvation.

6. "'Let them be put to shame and abashed who strive after my soul; let them fall
back and be put to shame who imagine evil against me.
7. "'Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the Lord pursue after
them.

8. "'Let their way be darkness and slippery, and let the angel of the Lord oppress
them.
9. "'For without cause have they hid a snare for me for their own spoiling, and they
have mocked at my soul in vain.
10. "'Let a snare come upon them which they know not, and let the net which they
have hid for me, catch them, and let them fall into this snare.

11. "'But my soul will exult in the Lord and rejoice in its salvation.
12. "'All my bones shall say: O Lord, who can be like unto thee?--thou who settest
free the wretched from the hand of him who is stronger than him; and thou
savest a wretched and poor [one] from the hands of them who spoil him.

13. "Unjust witnesses came forward and have asked me that which I knew not.
14. "'They have requited me evil for good and childlessness for my soul.
15. "'But when they molested me, I clothed me in a sack and humbled my soul with
fasting, and my prayer will return into my breast.
16. "'I was pleasing unto thee, as unto my neighbour and as unto my brother; and I
humbled myself as one in mourning and as one who is sad.

17. "'They have rejoiced over me, and they are put to shame. Scourges have
gathered themselves together against me and I knew not; they were cut off and
were troubled.
18. "'They have brought me to trial and mocked me with mocking; they have ground
their teeth against me.

19. "'O Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? Restore again my soul from their evil
works and save my only one from the hands of the lions.
20. "'I will confess to thee, O Lord, in the great assembly, and I will sing praises to
thee in the midst of a countless people.
21. "'Let not them who unjustly treat me as a foe, rejoice over me, who hate me

without a cause and wink with their eyes.