| 1: O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night
before thee: |
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| 2: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
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For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto
the grave. |
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| 4: I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a
man that hath no strength: |
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| 5: Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave,
whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. |
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| 6: Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the
deeps. |
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| 7: Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with
all thy waves. Selah. |
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| 8: Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast
made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
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| 9: Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called
daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. |
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| 10: Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and
praise thee? Selah. |
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| 11: Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy
faithfulness in destruction? |
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| 12: Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness
in the land of forgetfulness? |
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| 13: But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall
my prayer prevent thee. |
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| 14: LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face
from me? |
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| 15: I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I
suffer thy terrors I am distracted. |
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| 16: Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
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| 17: They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me
about together. |
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| 18: Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine
acquaintance into darkness. |
