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Act for me, O Lord my God, for your name’s sake :
 and deliver me, as your steadfast love is good.
For I am poor and needy :
 and my heart writhes within me.
I fade like a lengthening shadow :
 I am shaken off like a locust.
My knees are weak from fasting :
 my flesh grows lean and shrunken.
I have become the scorn of my enemies :
 and when they see me, they toss their heads in derision.
Help me, O Lord my God :
 and save me for your mercy’s sake,
That men may know it was your hand :
 that you, O Lord, have done it.
Though they curse, yet give me your blessing :
 and those that come against me will be put to shame,
   and your servant shall rejoice.
Let those that oppose me be covered with disgrace :
 let them wear their shame as a garment.
And I will give the Lord great thanks with my mouth :
 and praise him in the midst of a multitude.
For the Lord will stand at the right hand of the poor :
 to save him from those that would condemn him.