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- MY GOD, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? [Matt. 27:46.]
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- O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You answer not; and by night I am not silent or find no rest.
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- But You are holy, O You Who dwell in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered].
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- Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted (leaned on, relied on You, and were confident) and You delivered them.
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- They cried to You and were delivered; they trusted in, leaned on, and confidently relied on You, and were not ashamed or confounded or disappointed.
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- But I am a worm, and no man; I am the scorn of men, and despised by the people. [Matt. 27:39-44.]
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- All who see me laugh at me and mock me; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, [Matt. 27:43.]
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- He trusted and rolled himself on the Lord, that He would deliver him. Let Him deliver him, seeing that He delights in him! [Matt. 27:39, 43; Mark 15:29, 30; Luke 23:35.]
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- Yet You are He Who took me out of the womb; You made me hope and trust when I was on my mother's breasts.
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- I was cast upon You from my very birth; from my mother's womb You have been my God.
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- Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is none to help.
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- Many [foes like] bulls have surrounded me; strong bulls of Bashan have hedged me in. [Ezek. 39:18.]
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- Against me they opened their mouths wide, like a ravening and roaring lion.
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- I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is softened [with anguish] and melted down within me.
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- My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery; [with thirst] my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and You have brought me into the dust of death. [John 19:28.]
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- For [like a pack of] dogs they have encompassed me; a company of evildoers has encircled me, they pierced my hands and my feet. [Isa. 53:7; John 19:37.]
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- I can count all my bones; [the evildoers] gaze at me. [Luke 23:27, 35.]
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- They part my clothing among them and cast lots for my raiment (a long, shirtlike garment, a seamless undertunic). [John 19:23, 24.])
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- But be not far from me, O Lord; O my Help, hasten to aid me!
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- Deliver my life from the sword, my dear life [my only one] from the power of the dog [the agent of execution].
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- Save me from the lion's mouth; for You have answered me [kindly] from the horns of the wild oxen.
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- I will declare Your name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise You. [John 20:17; Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:12.]
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- You who fear (revere and worship) the Lord, praise Him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify Him. Fear (revere and worship) Him, all you offspring of Israel.
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- For He has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has He hidden His face from him, but when he cried to Him, He heard.
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- My praise shall be of You in the great congregation. I will pay to Him my vows [made in the time of trouble] before them who fear (revere and worship) Him.
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- The poor and afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise the Lord--they who [diligently] seek for, inquire of and for Him, and require Him [as their greatest need]. May your hearts be quickened now and forever!
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- All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall bow down and worship before You,
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- For the kingship and the kingdom are the Lord's, and He is the ruler over the nations.
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- All the mighty ones upon earth shall eat [in thanksgiving] and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before Him, even he who cannot keep himself alive.
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- Posterity shall serve Him; they shall tell of the Lord to the next generation.
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- They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born--that He has done it [that it is finished]! [John 19:30.]
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