Oh God, “Why do you hide your face?
Why do you forget my affliction and oppression?
My soul is bowed down to the dust...
my body cleaves to the ground.”
“Turn to me...for I am lonely and afflicted.
Bring me out of my distress.”

My child, “Would not God discover this?”
He says, “I know the secrets of your heart.
“I know that you are but flesh,
a wind that passes and comes not again.”
“For though the Lord is high, I regard the lowly.”

“I know when you sit down and when you rise up.
I am acquainted with all your ways.
Where can you go from my presence.
If you ascend to heaven, I am there.
If you say, ‘Let only darkness cover me,
and the light about me be night,’
even the darkness is not dark to me.
When you were made in secret,
intricately wrought in the depths of the earth,
my eyes beheld your unformed substance.
In my book were written every one of them,
the days that were formed for you.”

“I dwell in the high and holy place,
and with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.”
“I give power to the faint,
and to him who has no might I increase strength.”

“I know the plans I have for you...plans for good and not for evil,
to give you a future and a hope.”

“All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness.”
Let him lead you in the way everlasting.

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