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 Will your wonders be known in the dark? * or your righteousness in the country where all is forgotten?

But as for me, O, I cry to you for help; * in the morning my prayer comes before you.

, why have you rejected me? * why have you hidden your face from me?

Ever since my youth, I have been wretched and at the

[sic]point of death; * I have borne your terrors with a troubled mind.

Your blazing anger has swept over me; * your terrors have destroyed me;

They surround me all day long like a flood; * they encompass me on every side.

My friend and my neighbor you have put away from me, * and darkness is my only companion.

Part I

Your love, O, for ever will I sing; * from age to age my mouth will proclaim your faithfulness.

For I am persuaded that your love is established for ever; * you have set your faithfulness firmly in the heavens.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one; * I have sworn an oath to David my servant: