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I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother"s belly.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother"s breasts.

He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

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

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

O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.