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    Your words propped up the tottering;
        you have strengthened mourners’ wobbly knees.
    May my words help you in that way, now that trouble arrives and you despair.
        It extends its hand, crushes you, and you are overwhelmed.
    Isn’t your fear of God true confidence
        and your unswerving commitment genuine hope?

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Your words have supported those who stumbled;(A)
    you have strengthened faltering knees.(B)
But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;(C)
    it strikes(D) you, and you are dismayed.(E)
Should not your piety be your confidence(F)
    and your blameless(G) ways your hope?

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