1 O Lord, God of my salvation, ♦︎
I have cried day and night before you.
2 Let my prayer come into your presence; ♦︎
incline your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is full of troubles; ♦︎
my life draws near to the land of death.
4 I am counted as one gone down to the Pit; ♦︎
I am like one that has no strength,
5 Lost among the dead, ♦︎
like the slain who lie in the grave,
6 Whom you remember no more, ♦︎
for they are cut off from your hand.
7 You have laid me in the lowest pit, ♦︎
in a place of darkness in the abyss.
8 Your anger lies heavy upon me, ♦︎
and you have afflicted me with all your waves.
9 You have put my friends far from me ♦︎
and made me to be abhorred by them.
10 I am so fast in prison that I cannot get free; ♦︎
my eyes fail from all my trouble.
11 Lord, I have called daily upon you; ♦︎
I have stretched out my hands to you.
12 Do you work wonders for the dead? ♦︎
Will the shades stand up and praise you?
13 Shall your loving-kindness be declared in the grave, ♦︎
your faithfulness in the land of destruction?
14 Shall your wonders be known in the dark ♦︎
or your righteous deeds in the land where all is forgotten?
15 But as for me, O Lord, I will cry to you; ♦︎
early in the morning my prayer shall come before you.
16 Lord, why have you rejected my soul? ♦︎
Why have you hidden your face from me?
17 I have been wretched and at the point of death from my youth; ♦︎
I suffer your terrors and am no more seen.
18 Your wrath sweeps over me; ♦︎
your horrors are come to destroy me;
19 All day long they come about me like water; ♦︎
they close me in on every side.
20 Lover and friend have you put far from me ♦︎
and hid my companions out of my sight.
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21The Lord said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:
No one shall defile himself for a dead person among his relatives, 2except for his nearest kin: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother; 3likewise, for a virgin sister, close to him because she has had no husband, he may defile himself for her. 4But he shall not defile himself as a husband among his people and so profane himself. 5They shall not make bald spots upon their heads, or shave off the edges of their beards, or make any gashes in their flesh. 6They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the Lords offerings by fire, the food of their God; therefore they shall be holy. 7They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband. For they are holy to their God, 8and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, I who sanctify you, am holy. 9When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.
10 The priest who is exalted above his fellows, on whose head the anointing-oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the vestments, shall not dishevel his hair, nor tear his vestments. 11He shall not go where there is a dead body; he shall not defile himself even for his father or mother. 12He shall not go outside the sanctuary and thus profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing-oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord. 13He shall marry only a woman who is a virgin. 14A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, a prostitute, these he shall not marry. He shall marry a virgin of his own kin, 15that he may not profane his offspring among his kin; for I am the Lord; I sanctify him.
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16 But thanks be to God who put in the heart of Titus the same eagerness for you that I myself have. 17For he not only accepted our appeal, but since he is more eager than ever, he is going to you of his own accord. 18With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his proclaiming of the good news;* 19and not only that, but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us while we are administering this generous undertaking* for the glory of the Lord himself* and to show our goodwill. 20We intend that no one should blame us about this generous gift that we are administering, 21for we intend to do what is right not only in the Lords sight but also in the sight of others. 22And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found eager in many matters, but who is now more eager than ever because of his great confidence in you. 23As for Titus, he is my partner and co-worker in your service; as for our brothers, they are messengers* of the churches, the glory of Christ. 24Therefore, openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.
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