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    Help, God - the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help! 
Listen hard! Open your ears! 
Listen to my cries for mercy.
  
    
  
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    If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings, 
who would stand a chance? 
As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, 
and that's why you're worshiped.
  
    
  
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    I pray to God - my life a prayer - 
and wait for what he'll say and do. 
My life's on the line before God, my Lord, 
waiting and watching till morning, 
waiting and watching till morning.
  
    
  
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    O Israel, wait and watch for God - 
with God's arrival comes love, 
with God's arrival comes generous redemption. 
No doubt about it - he'll redeem Israel, 
buy back Israel from captivity to sin.