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Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord

38A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in Your wrath; neither chasten me in Your fury.
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For Your arrows stick fast in me, and Your hand presses heavily on me.
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There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your anger; nor rest in my bones because of my sin.
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For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
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My wounds have putrefied and rotted, 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 burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh.
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I am feeble and painfully broken; I have roared because of the groanings of my heart.
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My Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.
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My heart pants; my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
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My lovers and my friends stand apart from my plague; and my neighbors stand far off.
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And those who seek my life lay snares for me; and those who seek my hurt speak sly things, and utter deceits all the day long.
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But like a deaf one, I do not hear; and I am like a dumb one who opens not his mouth.
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And I am as a man who hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
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For in You, O Jehovah, do I hope; You will hear, O Jehovah my God.
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For I said, Hear me, lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.
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For I am ready to fall, and my pain is always before me.
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For I will declare my iniquity; I am anxious from my sin.
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And my enemies are lively; they are strong; and my haters increase by deception.
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And those who give evil for good oppose me, because I follow good.
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Forsake me not, O Jehovah; O my God, be not far from me.
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Make haste to help me, O my Lord, my salvation.
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