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1 Lord, you are the God who saves me. Day and night I cry out to you.
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1 O LORD, the God who saves me, day and night I cry out before you.
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2 Please hear my prayer. Pay attention to my cry for help.
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2 May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry.
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3 I have so many troubles I'm about to die.
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3 For my soul is full of trouble and my life draws near the grave.
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4 People think my life is over. I'm like someone who doesn't have any strength.
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4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like a man without strength.
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5 People treat me as if I were dead. I'm like those who have been killed and are now in the grave. You don't even remember them anymore. They are cut off from your care.
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5 I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.
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6 It seems as if you have put me deep down in the grave, that deep and dark place.
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6 You have put me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
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7 Your burning anger lies heavy on me. All the waves of your anger have crashed over me. "Selah"
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7 Your wrath lies heavily upon me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. "Selah"
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8 You have taken my closest friends away from me. You have made me sickening to them. I feel trapped. I can't escape.
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8 You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape;
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9 I'm crying so much I can't see very well. Lord, I call out to you every day. I lift up my hands to you in prayer.
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9 my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, O LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you.
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10 Do you work miracles for those who are dead? Do dead people rise up and praise you? "Selah"
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10 Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do those who are dead rise up and praise you? "Selah"
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11 Do those who are dead speak about your love? Do those who are in the grave tell how faithful you are?
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11 Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction ?
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12 Are your miracles known in that dark place? Are your holy acts known in that land where the dead are forgotten?
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12 Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?
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13 Lord, I cry out to you for help. In the morning I pray to you.
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13 But I cry to you for help, O LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
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14 Lord, why do you say no to me? Why do you turn your face away from me?
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14 Why, O LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me?
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15 I've been in pain ever since I was young. I've been close to death. You have made me suffer terrible things. I have lost all hope.
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15 From my youth I have been afflicted and close to death; I have suffered your terrors and am in despair.
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16 Your burning anger has swept over me. Your terrors have destroyed me.
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16 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.
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17 All day long they surround me like a flood. They have closed in all around me.
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17 All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me.
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18 You have taken my companions and loved ones away from me. The darkness is my closest friend.
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18 You have taken my companions and loved ones from me; the darkness is my closest friend.
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