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Rh :For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing:
 * My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
 * I was a reproach among all mine enemies.
 * But especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance:
 * They that did see me without fled from me.
 * I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:
 * I am like a broken vessel.
 * For I have heard the slander of many:
 * Fear was on every side:
 * While they took counsel together against me,
 * They devised to take away my life.
 * But I trusted in thee, O Lord:
 * I said. Thou art my God.
 * My times are in thy hand:
 * Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
 * Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:
 * Save me for thy mercies' sake.
 * Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee:
 * Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
 * Let the lying lips be put to silence;
 * Which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.