Holy Scripture
Psalms 38:11
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“My friends and neighbors have approached me and stood against me. And my neighbors stood from afar. And those who sought my soul were causing violence. And those who intended harm to me spoke emptiness and deceit all day long. But I, like a deaf man, did not hear, and like a mute man who does not open his mouth. And I…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11Remove thy scourges from me: I have fainted by reason of the strength of thy hand.
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9Deliver me from all my transgressions: Thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.
10I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; for thou art he that made me.
— Psalms 38:11 —
12Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, And thou makest his life to consume away like a spider’s web: Nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.
13O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: Attend to my tears: be not silent, For I am a sojourner in the land, And a stranger, as all my fathers were.