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From my youth up I have heard in the tribe of my family that thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from all their predecessors, for a perpetual inheritance, and thou hast performed whatsoever thou didst promise them.
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And now we have sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given us into the hands of our enemies,
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Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous.
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Nevertheless it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captivity: but they have stricken hands with their idols,