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I am numb, completely crushed; my anguished heart makes me groan aloud.

For I am about to fall, and my pain is always with me.

I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin.

"Make me grasp, Adonai , what my end must be, what it means that my days are numbered; let me know what a transient creature I am.

Now, Adonai, what am I waiting for? You are my only hope.

I am silent, I keep my mouth shut, because it is you who have done it.

Hear my prayer, Adonai , listen to my cry, don't be deaf to my weeping; for with you, I am just a traveler passing through, like all my ancestors. Turn your gaze from me, so I can smile again before I depart and cease to exist.

so then I said, "Here I am! I'm coming! In the scroll of a book it is written about me.

But may all those who seek you be glad and take joy in you. May those who love your salvation say always, " Adonai is great and glorious!" But I am poor and needy; may Adonai think of me. You are my helper and rescuer; my God, don't delay!

I am thirsty for God, for the living God! When can I come and appear before God?

"Desist, and learn that I am God, supreme over the nations, supreme over the earth." Adonai -Tzva'ot is with us, our fortress, the God of Ya‘akov. (Selah)

"Listen, my people, I am speaking: Isra'el, I am testifying against you, I, God, your God.

I am not rebuking you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me.

"This fellow would not make God his refuge, but trusted in his own great wealth, relying on his evil plots." But I am like a leafy olive tree in the house of God; I put my trust in the grace of God forever and ever. I will praise you forever for what you have done, and I will put my hope in your name; for this is what is good in the presence of your faithful.

Pay attention to me, and answer me! I am panic-stricken as I make my complaint, I shudder

when I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

I am surrounded by lions, I am lying down among people breathing fire, men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongues sharp-edged swords.

They prepared a snare for my feet, but I am bending over [to avoid it]. They dug a pit ahead of me, but they fell into it themselves. (Selah)

But as for me, I will sing of your strength; in the morning I will sing aloud of your grace. For you are my fortress, a refuge when I am in trouble. My Strength, I will sing praises to you, for God is my fortress, God, who gives me grace.

From the end of the earth, with fainting heart, I call out to you. Set me down on a rock far above where I am now.