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Jehovah is my strength and my shield; My heart hath 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 Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea, my soul and my body.

Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

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

As for me, 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 pursue 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 pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, And in whose mouth are no reproofs.

For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

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

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

Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me:

For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.

But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.

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

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