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I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.

For I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before Your eyes"; Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications When I cried out to You.

Also draw out the spear, And stop those who pursue me. Say to my soul, "I am your salvation."

I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread.

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

I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the turmoil of my heart.

But I, like a deaf man, do not hear; And I am like a mute who does not open his mouth.

Thus I am like a man who does not hear, And in whose mouth is no response.

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

"LORD, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am.

Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.

"Hear my prayer, O LORD, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, Before I go away and am no more."

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; Therefore my heart fails me.

But I am poor and needy; Yet the LORD thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; Do not delay, 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 against you; I am God, your God!

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

Attend to me, and hear me; I am restless in my complaint, and moan noisily,

Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You.