A Cry of Anguish and Song of Praise |
| To the chief Musician upon Ai'jeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. |
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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Mt. 27.46 · Mk. 15.34
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Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? |
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O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not;
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and in the night season, and am not silent. |
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But thou art holy,
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O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. |
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Our fathers trusted in thee:
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they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. |
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They cried unto thee, and were delivered:
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they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. |
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But I am a worm, and no man;
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a reproach of men, and despised of the people. |
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All they that see me laugh me to scorn:
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He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him:
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let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. Mt. 27.43 |
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But thou art he that took me out of the womb:
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thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. |
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I was cast upon thee from the womb:
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thou art my God from my mother's belly. |
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Be not far from me; for trouble is near;
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for there is none to help. |
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Many bulls have compassed me:
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strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. |
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They gaped upon me with their mouths,
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as a ravening and a roaring lion. |
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I am poured out like water,
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and all my bones are out of joint: |
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my heart is like wax; |
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it is melted in the midst of my bowels. |
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My strength is dried up like a potsherd;
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and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; |
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and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. |
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For dogs have compassed me:
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the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: |
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they pierced my hands and my feet. |
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I may tell all my bones:
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they look and stare upon me. |
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They part my garments among them,
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But be not thou far from me, O LORD:
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O my strength, haste thee to help me. |
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Deliver my soul from the sword;
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my darling from the power of the dog. |
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Save me from the lion's mouth:
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for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. |
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I will declare thy name unto my brethren:
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in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. Heb. 2.12 |
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Ye that fear the LORD, praise him;
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all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; |
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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;
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neither hath he hid his face from him; |
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but when he cried unto him, he heard. |
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My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation:
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I will pay my vows before them that fear him. |
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The meek shall eat and be satisfied:
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they shall praise the LORD that seek him: |
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your heart shall live for ever. |
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All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD:
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and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. |
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For the kingdom is the LORD's:
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and he is the governor among the nations. |
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All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship:
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all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: |
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and none can keep alive his own soul. |
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A seed shall serve him;
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it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. |
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They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness
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unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this. |
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