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13 But it is you, the one so close to me,
    my companion, my good friend, who does this.
14 We used to share our secrets with one another,
    as we walked through the crowds together in God’s Temple.

15 I wish death would take my enemies by surprise!
    I wish the earth would open up and swallow them alive,[a]
    because they plan such terrible things together.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 55:15 I wish … alive Literally, “I wish they would go down into Sheol alive.” See Num. 16:31-33.

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