16 Do not [a]consider your bond-servant a useless woman, for I have spoken until now out of my great concern and provocation.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:16 Lit give

16 Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.”(A)

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27 Though I say, ‘I will forget (A)my complaint,
I will [a]put my face in order and be cheerful,’

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  1. Job 9:27 I.e., improve the look

27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,(A)
    I will change my expression, and smile,’

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Prayer for Rescue from Secret Enemies.

For the music director. A Psalm of David.

64 Hear my voice, God, in (A)my [a]complaint;
(B)Protect my life from dread of the enemy.

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  1. Psalm 64:1 Or concern

Psalm 64[a]

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

Hear me, my God, as I voice my complaint;(A)
    protect my life from the threat of the enemy.(B)

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  1. Psalm 64:1 In Hebrew texts 64:1-10 is numbered 64:2-11.

When I remember God, then I am (A)restless;
When I (B)sigh, then (C)my spirit feels weak. Selah

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I remembered(A) you, God, and I groaned;(B)
    I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.[a](C)

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  1. Psalm 77:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 9 and 15.

I (A)pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare my (B)trouble before Him.

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I pour out before him my complaint;(A)
    before him I tell my trouble.(B)

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