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The Depth of the Psalmist's Distress
Psalms 31:9-13
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Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.
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For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.
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Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without--fled from me.
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I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.
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For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear is round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,
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