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 I will say to the God of my strength, “Why have you forgotten me? * and why do I go so heavily while the enemy oppresses me?”

While my bones are being broken, * my enemies mock me to my face;

All day long they mock me * and say to me, “Where now is your God?”

Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul? * and why are you so disquieted within me?

Put your trust in God; * for I will yet give thanks to him, who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

Give judgment for me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; * deliver me from the deceitful and the wicked.

For you are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? * and why do I go so heavily while the enemy oppresses me?

Send out your light and your truth, that they may lead me, * and bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling;

That I may go to the altar of God, to the God of my joy and gladness; * and on the harp I will give thanks to you, O God my God.