Psalm 38:12-22
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Those who want to kill me set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.
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I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, like the mute, who cannot speak;
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I have become like one who does not hear, whose mouth can offer no reply.
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LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God.
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For I said, “Do not let them gloat or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”
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For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
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I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
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Many have become my enemies without causea ; those who hate me without reason are numerous.
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Those who repay my good with evil lodge accusations against me, though I seek only to do what is good.
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LORD, do not forsake me; do not be far from me, my God.
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Come quickly to help me, my Lord and my Savior.
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