Translations
Louis Segond 1910
Détourne de moi le regard, et laisse-moi respirer, Avant que je m'en aille et que ne sois plus!
KJV
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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