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1 To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David. My *God, my *God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning? |
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2 My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me: |
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3 And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel. |
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4 Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them. |
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5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in thee, and were not confounded.
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6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people. |
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7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying: |
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8 Commit it to Jehovah--let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him! |
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9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts. |
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10 I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my *God from my mother's belly. |
Thou art my God from my mother's belly. – This is a statement prophetically made by Jesus. Can there be any doubt that the child within the mother's womb is a living soul? If it is not, how then is it possible for anyone to say that Jehovah is their God "from my mother's belly?" |
11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help. |
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12 Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round. |
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13 They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion. |
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14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. |
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15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death. |
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16 For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet. |
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17 I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me; |
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18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. |
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19 But thou, Jehovah, be not far from me; O my strength, haste thee to help me. |
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20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog; |
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21 Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me. |
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22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. |
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23 Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and revere him, all ye the seed of Israel. |
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24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him: but when he cried unto him, he heard. |
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25 My praise is from thee, in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear him. |
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26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. |
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27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee: |
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28 For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he ruleth among the nations. |
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29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul. |
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30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. |
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31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it2. |
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