| 1: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so
far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? |
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| 2: O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in
the night season, and am not silent. |
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But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of
Israel. |
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| 4: Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst
deliver them. |
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| 5: They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in
thee, and were not confounded. |
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| 6: But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
of the people. |
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| 7: All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the
lip, they shake the head saying, |
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| 8: He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him
deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. |
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| 9: But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make
me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. |
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| 10: I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my
mother's belly. |
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| 11: Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to
help. |
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| 12: Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have
beset me round. |
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| 13: They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a
roaring lion. |
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| 14: I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of
joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
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| 15: My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue
cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
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| 16: For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. |
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| 17: I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
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| 18: They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my
vesture. |
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| 19: But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste
thee to help me. |
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| 20: Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of
the dog. |
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| 21: Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from
the horns of the unicorns. |
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| 22: I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the
congregation will I praise thee. |
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| 23: Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,
glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. |
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| 24: For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto
him, he heard. |
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| 25: My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will
pay my vows before them that fear him. |
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| 26: The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the
LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. |
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| 27: All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the
LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
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| 28: For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among
the nations. |
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| 29: All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all
they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep
alive his own soul. |
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| 30: A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for
a generation. |
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| 31: They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a
people that shall be born, that he hath done this. |
