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Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.

So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;

He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?"

So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.

He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.

He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!

You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

so that my hand shall be established with him; my arm also shall strengthen him.

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord :

who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.