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I am radiant with joy because of your mercy, for you have listened to my troubles and have seen the crisis in my soul. You have not handed me over to my enemy but have given me open ground in which to maneuver.

9-10 O Lord, have mercy on me in my anguish. My eyes are red from weeping; my health is broken from sorrow. I am pining away with grief; my years are shortened, drained away because of sadness. My sins have sapped my strength; I stoop with sorrow and with shame.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 31:9 My sins have sapped my strength; I stoop with sorrow and with shame, literally, “Even my bones are rotting away.”

I will be glad and rejoice in your love,
    for you saw my affliction(A)
    and knew the anguish(B) of my soul.
You have not given me into the hands(C) of the enemy
    but have set my feet in a spacious place.(D)

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress;(E)
    my eyes grow weak with sorrow,(F)
    my soul and body(G) with grief.

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