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Rh :Who are ready to raise up their mourning.
 * Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;
 * Let it look for light, but have none;
 * Neither let it see the dawning of the day:
 * Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb,
 * Nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
 * Why died I not from the womb?
 * Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
 * Why did the knees prevent me?
 * Or why the breasts that I should suck?
 * For now should I have lain still and been quiet,
 * I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
 * With kings and counsellors of the earth,
 * Which built desolate places for themselves;
 * Or with princes that had gold,
 * Who filled their houses with silver:
 * Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been;
 * As infants which never saw light.
 * There the wicked cease from troubling;
 * And there the weary be at rest.
 * There the prisoners rest together;
 * They hear not the voice of the oppressor.
 * The small and great are there;
 * And the servant is free from his master.
 * Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,