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Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.

Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And do not go out with our armies.

Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals And covered us with the shadow of death.

Man in his pomp, yet without understanding, Is like the beasts that perish.

His speech was smoother than butter, But his heart was war; His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.

You made men ride over our heads; We went through fire and through water, Yet You brought us out into a place of abundance.

But as for me, I will hope continually, And will praise You yet more and more.

Yet God is my king from of old, Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, That they may arise and tell them to their children,

The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows, Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

Yet they still continued to sin against Him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Yet He commanded the clouds above And opened the doors of heaven;

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies,

As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away.

O Lord our God, You answered them; You were a forgiving God to them, And yet an avenger of their evil deeds.

This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord .

The arrogant utterly deride me, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.

My life is continually in my hand, Yet I do not forget Your law.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, Yet I have not gone astray from Your precepts.

I am small and despised, Yet I do not forget Your precepts.