The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
A Cry of Distress |
To the chief Musician upon Shoshan’nim, A Psalm of David. |
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Save me, O God;
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for the waters are come in unto my soul. |
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I sink in deep mire,
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where there is no standing: |
I am come into deep waters, |
where the floods overflow me. |
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I am weary of my crying:
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my throat is dried: |
mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. |
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They that hate me without a cause Ps. 35.19 · Joh. 15.25 are more than the hairs of mine head:
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they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: |
then I restored that which I took not away. |
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O God, thou knowest my foolishness;
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and my sins are not hid from thee. |
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Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake:
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let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. |
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Because for thy sake I have borne reproach;
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shame hath covered my face. |
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I am become a stranger unto my brethren,
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and an alien unto my mother’s children. |
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For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; Joh. 2.17
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and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. Rom. 15.3 |
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When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting,
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I made sackcloth also my garment;
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and I became a proverb to them. |
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They that sit in the gate speak against me;
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and I was the song of the drunkards. |
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But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD,
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in an acceptable time: |
O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, |
in the truth of thy salvation. |
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Deliver me out of the mire,
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and let me not sink: |
let me be delivered from them that hate me, |
and out of the deep waters. |
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Let not the waterflood overflow me,
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neither let the deep swallow me up, |
and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. |
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Hear me, O LORD;
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for thy loving-kindness is good: |
turn unto me |
according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. |
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And hide not thy face from thy servant;
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for I am in trouble: |
hear me speedily. |
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Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it:
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deliver me because of mine enemies. |
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Thou hast known my reproach,
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and my shame, and my dishonor: |
mine adversaries are all before thee. |
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Reproach hath broken my heart;
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and I am full of heaviness: |
and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; |
and for comforters, but I found none. |
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They gave me also gall for my meat;
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Let their table become a snare before them:
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and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. |
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Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not;
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and make their loins continually to shake. Rom. 11.9, 10 |
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Pour out thine indignation upon them,
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and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. |
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Let their habitation be desolate;
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For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten;
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and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. |
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Add iniquity unto their iniquity:
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and let them not come into thy righteousness. |
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Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, Rev. 3.5 ; 13.8 ; 17.8
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and not be written with the righteous. |
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But I am poor and sorrowful:
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let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. |
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I will praise the name of God with a song,
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and will magnify him with thanksgiving. |
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This also shall please the LORD better than an ox
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or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. |
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The humble shall see this, and be glad:
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and your heart shall live that seek God. |
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For the LORD heareth the poor,
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and despiseth not his prisoners. |
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Let the heaven and earth praise him,
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the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. |
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For God will save Zion,
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and will build the cities of Judah: |
that they may dwell there, |
and have it in possession. |
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The seed also of his servants shall inherit it:
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and they that love his name shall dwell therein. |
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