20 You who have (A)made me see many troubles and calamities
    will (B)revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
    you will bring me up again.

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(A)Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
    you (B)preserve my life;
you (C)stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
    and your (D)right hand delivers me.

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(A)You have made your people see hard things;
    (B)you have given us (C)wine to drink that made us stagger.

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Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

“Come, let us (A)return to the Lord;
    for (B)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and (C)he will bind us up.
After two days (D)he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.

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13 (A)For great is your steadfast love toward me;
    you have (B)delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

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18 Then we shall not turn back from you;
    (A)give us life, and we will call upon your name!

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12 Therefore (A)prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, (B)I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And (C)I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And (D)you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.

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    at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
    whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
    O Lord my God.

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Daleth

25 (A)My soul clings to the dust;
    (B)give me life (C)according to your word!

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My Help and My Deliverer

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

40 I (A)waited patiently for the Lord;
    he inclined to me and (B)heard my cry.
He drew me up from (C)the pit of destruction,
    out of (D)the miry bog,
and (E)set my feet upon a rock,
    (F)making my steps secure.
He put (G)a new song in my mouth,
    a song of praise to our God.
Many will (H)see and fear,
    and put their trust in the Lord.

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14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of (A)the great tribulation. (B)They have washed their robes and (C)made them white (D)in the blood of the Lamb.

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34 And at the ninth hour Jesus (A)cried with a loud voice, (B)“Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

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33 And he took with him (A)Peter and James and John, and began (B)to be greatly distressed and troubled. 34 And he said to them, (C)“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and (D)watch.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:34 Or keep awake; also verses 37, 38

17 (A)Behold, it was for my welfare
    that I had great bitterness;
(B)but in love you have delivered my life
    from the pit of destruction,
(C)for you have cast all my sins
    behind your back.

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19 (A)Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
    You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For (B)your dew is a dew of light,
    and the earth will give birth to the dead.

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You have put me in (A)the depths of the pit,
    in the (B)regions dark and (C)deep.
Your wrath (D)lies heavy upon me,
    and you overwhelm me with (E)all your waves. Selah

You have caused (F)my companions to shun me;
    you have made me (G)a horror[a] to them.
I am (H)shut in so that I cannot escape;
    (I)my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O Lord;
    I (J)spread out my hands to you.
10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
    (K)Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
    or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your (L)wonders known in (M)the darkness,
    or your righteousness in the land of (N)forgetfulness?

13 But I, O Lord, cry (O)to you;
    (P)in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14 O Lord, why (Q)do you cast my soul away?
    Why (R)do you hide your face from me?
15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
    I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.[b]
16 Your wrath has swept over me;
    your (S)dreadful assaults destroy me.
17 They (T)surround me like a flood (U)all day long;
    they (V)close in on me together.
18 You have caused (W)my beloved and my friend to shun me;
    my companions have become darkness.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:8 Or an abomination
  2. Psalm 88:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  3. Psalm 88:18 Or darkness has become my only companion

Will you not (A)revive us again,
    that your people may (B)rejoice in you?

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10 For you, O God, have (A)tested us;
    you have tried us as silver is tried.
11 You brought us into (B)the net;
    you laid a crushing burden on our backs;
12 you let men (C)ride over our heads;
    we went through fire and through (D)water;
yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.

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10 For you will not abandon my soul to (A)Sheol,
    (B)or let your (C)holy one see (D)corruption.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:10 Or see the pit

11 Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

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((A)In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into (B)the lower regions, the earth?[a]

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  1. Ephesians 4:9 Or the lower parts of the earth?

23 Are they (A)servants of Christ? (B)I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, (C)far more imprisonments, (D)with countless beatings, and (E)often near death. 24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the (F)forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was (G)beaten with rods. (H)Once I was stoned. Three times I (I)was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, (J)danger from my own people, (K)danger from Gentiles, (L)danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; 27 (M)in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, (N)in hunger and thirst, often without food,[a] in cold and exposure. 28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for (O)all the churches. 29 (P)Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

30 (Q)If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 31 (R)The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, (S)he who is blessed forever, (T)knows that I am not lying.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:27 Or often in fasting

32 This Jesus (A)God raised up, (B)and of that we all are witnesses. 33 (C)Being therefore (D)exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from (E)the Father (F)the promise of the Holy Spirit, (G)he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. 34 For (H)David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says,

(I)“‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,

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