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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far from my deliverance and from my words of groaning? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2My God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, by night, yet I have no rest. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Our fathers trusted in you; they trusted, and you rescued them. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They cried to you and were set free; they trusted in you and were not disgraced. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by people. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Everyone who sees me mocks me; they sneer and shake their heads: |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"He relies on the LORD; let him save him; let the LORD rescue him, since he takes pleasure in him." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9It was you who brought me out of the womb, making me secure at my mother's breast. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I was given over to you at birth; you have been my God from my mother's womb. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Don't be far from me, because distress is near and there's no one to help. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Many bulls surround me; strong ones of Bashan encircle me. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They open their mouths against me--lions, mauling and roaring. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed; my heart is like wax, melting within me. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15My strength is dried up like baked clay; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You put me into the dust of death. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has closed in on me; they pierced my hands and my feet. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I can count all my bones; people look and stare at me. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They divided my garments among themselves, and they cast lots for my clothing. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19But you, LORD, don't be far away. My strength, come quickly to help me. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Rescue my life from the sword, my only life from the power of these dogs. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Save me from the lion's mouth, from the horns of wild oxen. You answered me! |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters; I will praise you in the assembly. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! All you descendants of Israel, revere him! |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24For he has not despised or abhorred the torment of the oppressed. He did not hide his face from him but listened when he cried to him for help. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25I will give praise in the great assembly because of you; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear you. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The humble will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise him. May your hearts live forever! |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before you, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28for kingship belongs to the LORD; he rules the nations. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29All who prosper on earth will eat and bow down; all those who go down to the dust will kneel before him--even the one who cannot preserve his life. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Their descendants will serve him; the next generation will be told about the Lord. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31They will come and declare his righteousness; to a people yet to be born they will declare what he has done. |
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