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The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart triumphs, And with my song I shall thank Him.

Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress; My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body too.

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

As for me, I said in my alarm, "I am cut off from Your eyes"; Nevertheless You heard the sound of my pleadings When I called to You for help.

Draw also the spear and the battle-axe to meet those who pursue me; Say to my soul, "I am your salvation."

I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken Or his descendants begging for bread.

I am bent over and greatly bowed down; I go in mourning all day long.

But I, like a person who is deaf, do not hear; And I am like a person who cannot speak, who does not open his mouth.

Yes, I am like a person who does not hear, And in whose mouth are no arguments.

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

For I admit my guilt; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.

"LORD, let me know my end, And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am.

"Remove Your plague from me; Because of the opposition of Your hand I am perishing.

"Hear my prayer, LORD, and listen to my cry for help; Do not be silent to my tears; For I am a stranger with You, One who lives abroad, like all my fathers.

"Turn Your eyes away from me, that I may become cheerful again Before I depart and am no more."

For evils beyond number have surrounded me; My guilty deeds have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see; They are more numerous than the hairs of my head, And my heart has failed me.

But I am afflicted and needy; May the Lord be mindful of me. You are my help and my savior; Do not delay, my God.

All day long my dishonor is before me And I am covered with my humiliation,

"Stop striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted on the earth."

"Hear, My people, and I will speak; Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.