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They that sit in the gate talk of me; and I am the song of the drunkards.

And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress; answer 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.

Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, thy might to every one that is to come.

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

I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah

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

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

A Prayer Of David. Bow down thine ear, O LORD, and answer me; for I am poor and needy.

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

I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help:

Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

But my horn hast thou exalted like the horn of the wild-ox: I am anointed with fresh oil.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.