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I am one who knows what it is to be punished by God. |
2
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He drove me deeper and deeper into darkness |
3
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And beat me again and again with merciless blows. |
4
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He has left my flesh open and raw, and has broken my bones. |
5
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He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish. |
6
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He has forced me to live in the stagnant darkness of death. |
7
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He has bound me in chains; I am a prisoner with no hope of escape. |
8
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I cry aloud for help, but God refuses to listen; |
9
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I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn. |
10
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He waited for me like a bear; he pounced on me like a lion. |
11
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He chased me off the road, tore me to pieces, and left me. |
12
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He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows. |
13
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He shot his arrows deep into my body. |
14
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People laugh at me all day long; I am a joke to them all. |
15
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Bitter suffering is all he has given me for food and drink. |
16
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He rubbed my face in the ground and broke my teeth on rocks. |
17
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I have forgotten what health and peace and happiness are. |
18
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I do not have much longer to live; my hope in the LORD is gone. |
19
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The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison. |
20
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I think of it constantly, and my spirit is depressed. |
21
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Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing: |
22
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The LORD's unfailing love and mercy still continue, |
23
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Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise. |
24
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The LORD is all I have, and so in him I put my hope. |
25
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The LORD is good to everyone who trusts in him, |
26
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So it is best for us to wait in patience---to wait for him to save us--- |
27
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And it is best to learn this patience in our youth. |
28
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When we suffer, we should sit alone in silent patience; |
29
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We should bow in submission, for there may still be hope. |
30
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Though beaten and insulted, we should accept it all. |
31
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The Lord is merciful and will not reject us forever. |
32
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He may bring us sorrow, but his love for us is sure and strong. |
33
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He takes no pleasure in causing us grief or pain. |
34
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The Lord knows when our spirits are crushed in prison; |
35
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He knows when we are denied the rights he gave us; |
36
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When justice is perverted in court, he knows. |
37
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The will of the Lord alone is always carried out. |
38
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Good and evil alike take place at his command. |
39
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Why should we ever complain when we are punished for our sin? |
40
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Let us examine our ways and turn back to the LORD. |
41
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Let us open our hearts to God in heaven and pray, |
42
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"We have sinned and rebelled, and you, O LORD, have not forgiven us. |
43
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"You pursued us and killed us; your mercy was hidden by your anger, |
44
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By a cloud of fury too thick for our prayers to get through. |
45
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You have made us the garbage dump of the world. |
46
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"We are insulted and mocked by all our enemies. |
47
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We have been through disaster and ruin; we live in danger and fear. |
48
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My eyes flow with rivers of tears at the destruction of my people. |
49
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"My tears will pour out in a ceaseless stream |
50
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Until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees us. |
51
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My heart is grieved when I see what has happened to the women of the city. |
52
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"I was trapped like a bird by enemies who had no cause to hate me. |
53
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They threw me alive into a pit and closed the opening with a stone. |
54
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Water began to close over me, and I thought death was near. |
55
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"From the bottom of the pit, O LORD, I cried out to you, |
56
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And when I begged you to listen to my cry, you heard. |
57
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You answered me and told me not to be afraid. |
58
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"You came to my rescue, Lord, and saved my life. |
59
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Judge in my favor; you know the wrongs done against me. |
60
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You know how my enemies hate me and how they plot against me. |
61
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"You have heard them insult me, O LORD; you know all their plots. |
62
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All day long they talk about me and make their plans. |
63
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From morning till night they make fun of me. |
64
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"Punish them for what they have done, O LORD; |
65
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Curse them and fill them with despair! |
66
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Hunt them down and wipe them off the earth!" |