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Day and night, Your hand kept pressing on me.
    My strength dried up like water in the summer heat;
    You wore me down.

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When I finally saw my own lies,
    I owned up to my sins before You,
    and I did not try to hide my evil deeds from You.
I said to myself, “I’ll admit all my sins to the Eternal,”
    and You lifted and carried away the guilt of my sin.

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So let all who are devoted to You
    speak honestly to You now, while You are still listening.
For then when the floods come, surely the rushing water
    will not even reach them.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:4 Literally, selah, likely a musical direction from a Hebrew root meaning “to lift up”

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