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

I have been young, and [now] am old; yet I have 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 grievously 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 my 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 thy hand.

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

For innumerable evils have encompassed me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart faileth me.

But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no delay, O my God.

Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.

But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

In the time when I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children.

And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.

But I [am] poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.