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XXII] :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 in the midst of my bowels.
 * My strength is dried up like a potsherd;
 * And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;
 * And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
 * For dogs have compassed me:
 * The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
 * They pierced my hands and my feet.
 * I may tell all my bones:
 * They look and stare upon me.
 * They part my garments among them,
 * And cast lots upon my vesture.
 * But be not thou far from me, O Lord:
 * O my strength, haste thee to help me.
 * Deliver my soul from the sword;
 * My darling from the power of the dog.
 * Save me from the lion's mouth:
 * For thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
 * I will declare thy name unto my brethren: