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Translation

Psalm 21
Calves have surrounded me

GOD MY GOD/ have regard for me:/ why have you forsaken me:/ far from my salvation/ are the words of my/ sins./ My god I shall/cry by day/ and you will not hear:/ and by night and not be considered as folly in me./ But you dwell in the holy place: the praise of israel [sic]./ In you have our fathers hoped:/ they hoped and you have delivered them./ They cried to you and were saved:/ they hoped in you and were not confounded./ But I am a worm and no man:/ the reproach of men and outcast of the people./ All that see me have scorned me:/ they have spoken with lips and shaken the head./

Transcription

Circumdederunt me vituli
D[EU]S D[EU]S M[EU]S / respice me: / quare me / dereliquisti: / longe asalute / mea verba / delictorum / meorum. / D[eu]s m[eu]s cla/mabo p[er] die[m] / et n[on] exaudies: / et nocte et non adinspientiam michi. / Tu autem in s[an]c[t]o habitas: laus israel. / In te speraverunt patres nostri: / speraverunt et liberasti eos. / Adte clamaverunt et salvi facti sunt: / inte speraverunt et non sunt confusi. / Ego autem sum vermis et non homo: / op[ro]pbrium hominu[m] et ab iectio plebis. / Om[ne]s videntes me deriserunt me: / locuti sunt labiis et mover[un]t caput. /

Translation

Psalm 21
Calves have surrounded me

GOD MY GOD/ have regard for me:/ why have you forsaken me:/ far from my salvation/ are the words of my/ sins./ My god I shall/cry by day/ and you will not hear:/ and by night and not be considered as folly in me./ But you dwell in the holy place: the praise of israel [sic]./ In you have our fathers hoped:/ they hoped and you have delivered them./ They cried to you and were saved:/ they hoped in you and were not confounded./ But I am a worm and no man:/ the reproach of men and outcast of the people./ All that see me have scorned me:/ they have spoken with lips and shaken the head./

 

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