You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy.’
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,
“Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him; on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.
There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.
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