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To the victor, upon the aijeleth hashachar*; a psalm of◦ David.
2 My God◦, my God◦, Why hast Thou forsaken me?
Why art Thou far from my salvation, from the words of my roaring?
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3 My God, I call by··day, but Thou answerest not;
and by night, but there is no◦ stillness for me.
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4 But Thou◦ art holy,
O Thou who dwellest in the praises of Israel.
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5 In Thee did our fathers trust;
they trusted, and Thou didst deliver them.
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6 to▵ Thee they cried, and they escaped;
In Thee they trusted, and were not ashamed.
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7 But I▵ am a worm◦, and not a man◦;
a reproach of man, and despised of the people.
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8 All they who see me deride me;
they open··up the lips, they wag the head:
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9 he committed* himself to▵ Jehovah; let Him deliver him;
let Him rescue him, if▫* He delights in him.
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10 For Thou◦ art He who brought· me ·out◦ from the belly;
Thou didst make me to trust when I was on my mother’s breasts.
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11 On Thee was I cast from the womb;
from my mother’s belly, my God◦ art Thou◦.
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12 Be· not ·far from me, for adversity is near;
for there is none to help.
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13 Many bullocks have surrounded me;
bulls of Bashan have closed··around me.
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14 They open··wide their mouth against me,
as a lion tearing and roaring.
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15 I am spilled··out as water,
and all my bones are separated;
my heart is as wax;
it is melted in the midst of my bowels;
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16 my power is··dried··up as a potsherd◦*; and my tongue sticks to my jaws◦;
and Thou hast set· me ·on the dust of death.
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17 For dogs have surrounded me; the congregation of evildoers have encircled me;
they pierced my hands and my feet.
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18 I can* number all my bones;
they look, they see* me;
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19 they part my garments among them,
and upon my clothing they cause the lot to fall.
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20 But Thou◦, be· not ·far, O Jehovah;
my power◦, hurry to my help.
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21 Rescue my soul from the sword;
My only··one from the hand of the dog.
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22 Save me from the lion’s mouth,
and from the horns of the unicorns answer me.
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23 I will recount◦ Thy name to my brothers;
in the midst of the assembly will· I ·praise Thee.
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24 You who fear Jehovah, praise Him;
all you the seed of Jacob, glorify Him;
and be··afraid··of Him,
all you the seed of Israel.
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25 For He has not despised nor detested the affliction of the afflicted;
neither has He hidden His face from him; and when he cried··out to Him, He heard.
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26 Of Thee shall be my praise in the great◦ assembly;
I will pay my vows in··the··presence··of those who fear Him.
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27 The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall··praise Jehovah who inquire··after Him;
let· your heart ·live forever.
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28 They shall remember and return unto Jehovah, all the ends◦ of the earth;
and all the families of the nations shall worship before Thy face.
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29 For the kingdom is Jehovah’s;
and He is the ruler among the nations.
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30 They shall eat and worship,
all the fat◦ ones of the earth.
All they who go··down··to the dust shall bow··down◦ before Him;
and he whose soul He has not made··to··live.
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31 The seed that shall serve Him
shall be numbered to the Lord for a generation.
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32 They shall come and shall tell His justice
unto a people that shall be··born, that He has done it.
