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Your vicious waves
    have swept over me
like an angry ocean
    or a roaring waterfall.

Every day, you are kind,
    and at night
you give me a song
as my prayer to you,
    the God of my life.

You are my mighty rock.[a]
    Why have you forgotten me?
Why must enemies mistreat me
    and make me sad?

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Footnotes

  1. 42.9 mighty rock: See the note at 18.2.

Deep calls to deep(A)
    in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
    have swept over me.(B)

By day the Lord directs his love,(C)
    at night(D) his song(E) is with me—
    a prayer to the God of my life.(F)

I say to God my Rock,(G)
    “Why have you forgotten(H) me?
Why must I go about mourning,(I)
    oppressed(J) by the enemy?”(K)

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