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\d A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship.
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\v 1 Yahweh, I have great troubles, so I call out to you.
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\v 2 Yahweh, hear me
\q2 while I call out to you to have mercy on me!
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\v 3 Yahweh, if you kept a record of the sins that we have committed,
\q2 not one of us would escape from being condemned and punished!
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\v 4 But you forgive us,
\q2 with the result that we have an awesome respect for you.
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\v 5 Yahweh has said that he would help me;
\q2 I trust what he said, and I wait eagerly for him to do that.
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\v 6 I wait for Yahweh to help me
\q2 more than watchmen wait for the morning to come;
\q2 yes, I wait more eagerly than they do!
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\v 7 You, my fellow Israelites, confidently expect that Yahweh will bless us.
\q2 He will bless us because he has mercy on us,
\q2 and he is very willing to save us.
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\v 8 It is he who will save us Israelite people from being punished for all the sins that we have committed.