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My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.

if I have devoured its yield without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,

My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.

For Jesus had commanded the impure spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was chained hand and foot and kept under guard, he had broken his chains and had been driven by the demon into solitary places.