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Ezra Chapter 22

1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far

2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the

3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver

5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee,

6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of

7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip,

8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver

9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me

10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my

11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to

12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset

13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint:

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth

16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have

17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee

20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the

21 Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the

22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the

23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,

24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the

25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay

26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD

27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD:

28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the

29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they

30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a

31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a