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    Do not hide your face from me.

Do not turn your servant away in anger,
    you who have been my help.
Do not cast me off; do not forsake me,
    O God of my salvation!(A)

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17 Do not hide your face from your servant,
    for I am in distress—make haste to answer me.(A)

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Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
    all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been borne by me from your birth,
    carried from the womb;(A)
even to your old age I am he;
    even when you turn gray I will carry you.
I have made, and I will bear;
    I will carry and will save.(B)

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Answer me quickly, O Lord;
    my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me,
    or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.(A)

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Do not hide your face from me
    in the day of my distress.
Incline your ear to me;
    answer me speedily in the day when I call.(A)

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Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”(A)

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They will receive blessing from the Lord
    and vindication from the God of their salvation.(A)

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17 But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.(A) 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.(B)

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Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He who rescued us from so deadly a peril will continue to rescue us;[a] on him we have set our hope that he will rescue us again,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.10 Other ancient authorities read is rescuing us or lack the phrase

40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me.

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121 I have done what is just and right;
    do not leave me to my oppressors.

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Psalm 88

Prayer for Help in Despondency

A Song. A Psalm of the Korahites. To the leader: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.

O Lord, God of my salvation,
    at night, when I cry out before you,(A)

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17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
    and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.(A)
18 So even to old age and gray hairs,
    O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might
    to all the generations to come.[a]
Your power(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 71.18 Gk Compare Syr: Heb to a generation, to all who come

For you, O Lord, are my hope,
    my trust, O Lord, from my youth.(A)
From my birth I have leaned upon you,
    my protector since my mother’s womb.[a]
My praise is continually of you.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 71.6 Q ms Gk Jerome: MT from my mother’s womb you took me

11 Do not cast me away from your presence,
    and do not take your holy spirit from me.(A)

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24 Why do you hide your face?
    Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?(A)

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21 Do not forsake me, O Lord;
    O my God, do not be far from me;(A)
22 make haste to help me,
    O Lord, my salvation.(B)

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Psalm 13

Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies

To the leader. A Psalm of David.

How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
    How long will you hide your face from me?(A)

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12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah[a] and named it Ebenezer,[b] for he said, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.12 Gk Syr: Heb Shen
  2. 7.12 That is, stone of help

50 Thus says the Lord:
Where is your mother’s bill of divorce
    with which I dismissed her?
Or which of my creditors is it
    to whom I have sold you?
No, because of your sins you were sold,
    and for your transgressions your mother was dismissed.(A)

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“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.(A)

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Rather, your iniquities have been barriers
    between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
    so that he does not hear.(A)

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