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They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.
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Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
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“And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.
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Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
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In his great power God becomes like clothing to mea ; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
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He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
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“I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.
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You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.
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You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.
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I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
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