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Have mercy upon me, O Lord ; for I am weak: O Lord , heal me; for my bones are vexed.

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

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.

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord , for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

Lord , make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

Hear my prayer, O Lord , and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.