A Plea for Merciful Deliverance

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¶ But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

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For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

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I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

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I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

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Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

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That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

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Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

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Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.