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“Oh that my request would come to pass,
And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
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“I wish that it would please God to crush me,
That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.
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“Then I would still have consolation,
And I would jump for joy amid unsparing pain,
That I have not denied or hidden the words of the Holy One.