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For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine 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 tarrying, 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.

What time 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: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto 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.

But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord , make no tarrying.

I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Bow down thine ear, O Lord , hear me: for I am poor and needy.

Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.