[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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[3] 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.
