(A)My tears have been my food
    day and night,
(B)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”

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Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
    Are his (A)promises at an end for all time?
(B)Has God forgotten to be gracious?
    (C)Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:8 Or an abomination

For you are (A)the God in whom I take refuge;
    why have you (B)rejected me?
Why do I (C)go about mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?

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