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I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.

Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.

For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.

Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers!

The Lord helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,

I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.

Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, "Aha, Aha!"

But you have upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

I say to God, my rock: "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!

I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.

because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.

God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!