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| [1]Save me, O God; for the waters have come in to my soul. |
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| [2]I am stuck fast in deep mire, and there is no standing: I am come in to the depths of the sea, and a storm has overwhelmed me. |
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| [3]I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God. |
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| [4]They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: my enemies that persecute me unrighteously are strengthened: then I restored that which I took not away. |
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| [5]O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my transgressions are not hidden from thee. |
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| [6]Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord of hosts, be ashamed on my account: let not them that seek thee, be ashamed on my account, O God of Israel. |
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| [7]For I have suffered reproach for thy sake; shame has covered my face. |
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| [8]I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children. |
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| [9]For the zeal of thine house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. |
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| [10]And I bowed down my soul with fasting, and that was made my reproach. |
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| [11]And I put on sackcloth for my covering; and I became a proverb to them. |
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| [12]They that sit in the gate talked against me, and they that drank wine sang against me. |
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| [13]But I will cry to thee, O Lord, in my prayer; O God, it is a propitious time: in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. |
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| [14]Save me from the mire, that I stick not in it: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and from the deep waters. |
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| [15]Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me. |
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| [16]Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good: according to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me. |
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| [17]And turn not away thy face from thy servant; for I am afflicted: hear me speedily. |
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| [18]Draw nigh to my soul and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. |
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| [19]For thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my confusion; all that afflict me are before thee. |
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| [20]My soul has waited for reproach and misery; and I waited for one to grieve with me, but there was none; and for one to comfort me, but I found none. |
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| [21]They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst. |
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| [22]Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling-block. |
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| [23]Let their eyes be darkened that they should not see; and bow down their back continually. |
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| [24]Pour out thy wrath upon them, and let the fury of thine anger take hold on them. |
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| [25]Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents: |
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| [26]Because they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. |
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| [27]Add iniquity to their iniquity; and let them not come into thy righteousness. |
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| [28]Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be written with the righteous. |
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| [29]I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of thy countenance has helped me. |
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| [30]I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise; |
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| [31]and this shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs. |
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| [32]Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and ye shall live. |
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| [33]For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nought his fettered ones. |
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| [34]Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them. |
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| [35]For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and men shall dwell there, and inherit it. |
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| [36]And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein. |
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