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118:10-13 The Gentiles Surrounded Me, and the Lord Delivered Me. This section recounts a particular distress in a battle. All nations surrounded me (when they should have joined me in worship; cf. 117:1) and would have killed me, but the Lord helped me, and in the name of the Lord (i.e., acting as his representative) I cut them off.