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season, and am not silent. But you are holy, O
you that inhabit the praises of Israel. Our
fathers trusted in you: and you delivered them.
They cried unto you and were delivered: they
trusted in you and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of
men, and despised of the people. All they that
see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the
lip, they shake the head, saying: He
trusted on the LORD that he would be
his savior: let him deliver him, seeing as
he delighted in him. But you are he that
took me out of the womb: you did make me
hope when I was upon my mother's breast. I
was cast upon you from the womb: you are my
God from my mother's belly.
Be near to me, for trouble is near, for
there is none to help. Many bulls have
compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have
beset me round. They gaped upon me with
their mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion. I
am poured out like water, and all my bones are
out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted