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O LORD rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure
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For thine arrows stick fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore
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There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin
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For mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me
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My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness
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I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all the day long
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For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease and there is no soundness in my flesh
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I am feeble and sore broken I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart
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Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee
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My heart panteth my strength faileth me as for the light of mine eyes it also is gone from me
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My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore and my kinsmen stand afar off
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They also that seek after my life lay snares for me and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long
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But I as a deaf man heard not and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth
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Thus I was as a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofs
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For in thee O LORD do I hope thou wilt hear O Lord my God
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For I said Hear me lest otherwise they should rejoice over me when my foot slippeth they magnify themselves against me
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For I am ready to halt and my sorrow is continually before me
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For I will declare mine iniquity I will be sorry for my sin
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But mine enemies are lively and they are strong and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied
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They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries because I follow the thing that good is
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Forsake me not O LORD O my God be not far from me
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Make haste to help me O Lord my salvation