I am poured out like water, and all My bones are loosened; My heart in the midst of My belly has become like melting wax.

Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

He keeps all their bones; not one of them shall be broken.

For there is no health in my flesh because of Your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.

You shall cause me to hear gladness and joy; my afflicted bones shall rejoice.

For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

And again, He chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones are pained.

until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall show his bones bare.

Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and show his folly;

And He will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and He will restore him among men in his full strength.

even Your power and Your righteousness, O God, up to the highest [heavens, even] the mighty works which You have done; O God, who is like You?

There is none like You, O Lord, among the gods; and there are no [works] like Your works.

For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? And who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God?

O Lord God of hosts, who is like You? You are mighty, O Lord, and Your truth is round about You.

Who is like You among the gods, O Lord? Who is like You? Glorified in holiness, marvelous in glories, doing wonders.

To whom have you compared the Lord? And with what likeness have you compared Him?

Now then to whom have you compared Me, that I may be exalted? Says the Holy One.

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You see [it]; for You observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into Your hands; the poor has been left to You; You are a helper to the orphan.

For He has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away His face from Me; but when I cried to Him, He heard Me.

This poor man cried, and the Lord hearkened to him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions.

For the Lord hears the poor, and does not despise His prisoners.

He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition.

For He has looked out from the height of His sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;

For He stood on the right hand of the poor, to save [me] from them that persecute my soul.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor, and the right of the needy ones.

And let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.

And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.

Do no violence to the poor, for he is needy, neither dishonor the helpless man in the gates.

For the Lord will plead his cause, and you shall deliver your soul in safety.

He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I.