The Bible in Basic English BBE
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1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?
2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
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My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.
3 But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
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Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises.
4 Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.
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In you our ancestors put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them.
5 They sent up their cry to you and were made free: they put their faith in you and were not put to shame.
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To you they cried out and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.
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But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people.
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