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If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,
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Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
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Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
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Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body clings to the ground.
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Arise for our help, And redeem us for Your mercies' sake.