The specimen is sharpening its claws while I struggle to ignore the hollow ache in my stomach from another day without a meal.
A reading from Psalms 41:10
But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, That I may requite them.
— Psalms 41:10 (en_asv)
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Raise me up, that I may requite them.