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For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

For in you, LORD, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, Or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, Because I follow what is good.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

< > I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

I said, "LORD, have mercy on me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, And set me in your presence forever.

< > As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul after you, God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, The saving help of my countenance, and my God.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?