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Book I: The Penitential Cry Under the Arrows of Shadday
A Psalm of Dawid, to bring to remembrance. O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
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Tahiliym 38
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The Penetration of the Arrows
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
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The Soundness of the Flesh
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
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The Weight of Iniquity
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
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The Corruption of the Biological Matrix
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
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I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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The Loathsome Disease
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
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I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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The Omniscient Witness of Desire
Adun, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
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The Failure of the Vital Signs
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
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The Alienation of the Matrix
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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The Snares of the Seekers
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
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The Protocol of Acoustic Silence
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openers not his mouth.
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Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
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The Anchor of Hope
For in thee, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Adun my Alahiym.
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For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
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The Readiness to Halt
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
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The Confession of Sin
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
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The Strength of the Adversary
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
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They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
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The Final Appeal for Presence
Forsake me not, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄: O my Alahiym, be not far from me.
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The Haste of Salvation
Make haste to help me, O Adun my salvation.