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019:022:001
My God,
my God,
why hast thou forsaken me?
why art thou so far from helping me,
and from the words of my roaring?

019:022:002
O my God,
I cry in the day time,
but thou hearest not;
and in the night season,
and am not silent.

019:022:003
But thou art holy,
O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

019:022:004
Our fathers trusted in thee:
they trusted,
and thou didst deliver them.

019:022:005
They cried unto thee,
and were delivered:
they trusted in thee,
and were not confounded.

019:022:006
But I am a worm,
and no man;
a reproach of men,
and despised of the people.

019:022:007
All they that see me laugh me to scorn:
they shoot out the lip,
they shake the head,
saying,

019:022:008
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him:
let him deliver him,
seeing he delighted in him.

019:022:009
But thou art he that took me out of the womb:
thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

019:022:010
I was cast upon thee from the womb:
thou art my God from my mother's belly.

019:022:011
Be not far from me;
for trouble is near;
for there is none to help.

019:022:012
Many bulls have compassed me:
strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

019:022:013
They gaped upon me with their mouths,
as a ravening and a roaring lion.

019:022:014
I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint:
my heart is like wax;
it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

019:022:015
My strength is dried up like a potsherd;
and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;
and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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For dogs have compassed me:
the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet.

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I may tell all my bones:
they look and stare upon me.

019:022:018
They part my garments among them,
and cast lots upon my vesture.

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But be not thou far from me,
O LORD:
O my strength,
haste thee to help me.

019:022:020
Deliver my soul from the sword;
my darling from the power of the dog.

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Save me from the lion's mouth:
for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

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I will declare thy name unto my brethren:
in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

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Ye that fear the LORD,
praise him;
all ye the seed of Jacob,
glorify him;
and fear him,
all ye the seed of Israel.

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For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
neither hath he hid his face from him;
but when he cried unto him,
he heard.

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My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation:
I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

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The meek shall eat and be satisfied:
they shall praise the LORD that seek him:
your heart shall live for ever.

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All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD:
and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

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For the kingdom is the LORD's:
and he is the governor among the nations.

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All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship:
all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him:
and none can keep alive his own soul.

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A seed shall serve him;
it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

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They shall come,
and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born,
that he hath done this.