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9-10 Because you are so angry with me,
    I eat ashes as my food.
My tears drop
    into the water that I drink.
It seems that you have picked me up,
    and then you have thrown me away.
11 My days are disappearing,
    like a shadow in the evening.
Like dry grass,
    I will soon die.

12 But you, Lord, rule for ever as king.
    People will always remember you.

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