OFFICE OF THE DEAD
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my heart: * I have declared Thy truth and Thy salvation.
I have not concealed Thy mercy and Thy truth * from a great council.
Withhold not Thou, O Lord, Thy tender mercies from me: * Thy mercy and Thy truth have always upheld me.
For evils without number have surrounded me: * my iniquities have overtaken me, and I am not able to see.
They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, * and my heart hath forsaken me.
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: * look down, O Lord, to help me.
Let them that seek after my life to take it away, be confounded * and put to shame together.
Let them that desire evils to me * be turned backward, and put to shame.
Let them that say to me: Aha! Aha! * immediately be filled with shame.
