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              1  How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
            
            
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How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?            
            
              2 How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
            
            
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How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?            
            
              3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
            
            
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Look on me and answer, LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,            
            
              4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him, ”lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
            
            
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and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall.            
            
              5 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
            
            
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But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.            
            
              6 I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
            
            
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I will sing the LORD’s praise, for he has been good to me.            
          
            
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