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All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.
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We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.
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But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
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Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
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Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
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Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
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For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.
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Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.