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I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of GOD's anger. |
2
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He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness. |
3
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Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again. |
4
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He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones. |
5
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He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times. |
6
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He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin. |
7
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He shuts me in so I'll never get out, manacles my hands, shackles my feet. |
8
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Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key. |
9
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He sets up blockades with quarried limestone. He's got me cornered. |
10
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He's a prowling bear tracking me down, a lion in hiding ready to pounce. |
11
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He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me. |
12
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He took out his bow and arrows and used me for target practice. |
13
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He shot me in the stomach with arrows from his quiver. |
14
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Everyone took me for a joke, made me the butt of their mocking ballads. |
15
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He forced rotten, stinking food down my throat, bloated me with vile drinks. |
16
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He ground my face into the gravel. He pounded me into the mud. |
17
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I gave up on life altogether. I've forgotten what the good life is like. |
18
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I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. GOD is a lost cause." |
19
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I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. |
20
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I remember it all--oh, how well I remember-- the feeling of hitting the bottom. |
21
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But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope: |
22
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GOD's loyal love couldn't have run out, his merciful love couldn't have dried up. |
23
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They're created new every morning. How great your faithfulness! |
24
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I'm sticking with GOD (I say it over and over). He's all I've got left. |
25
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GOD proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. |
26
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It's a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from GOD. |
27
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It's a good thing when you're young to stick it out through the hard times. |
28
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When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. |
29
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Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. |
30
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Don't run from trouble. Take it full-face. The "worst" is never the worst. |
31
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Why? Because the Master won't ever walk out and fail to return. |
32
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If he works severely, he also works tenderly. His stockpiles of loyal love are immense. |
33
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He takes no pleasure in making life hard, in throwing roadblocks in the way: |
34
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Stomping down hard on luckless prisoners, |
35
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Refusing justice to victims in the court of High God, |
36
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Tampering with evidence-- the Master does not approve of such things. |
37
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Who do you think "spoke and it happened"? It's the Master who gives such orders. |
38
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Doesn't the High God speak everything, good things and hard things alike, into being? |
39
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And why would anyone gifted with life complain when punished for sin? |
40
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Let's take a good look at the way we're living and reorder our lives under GOD. |
41
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Let's lift our hearts and hands at one and the same time, praying to God in heaven: |
42
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"We've been contrary and willful, and you haven't forgiven. |
43
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"You lost your temper with us, holding nothing back. You chased us and cut us down without mercy. |
44
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You wrapped yourself in thick blankets of clouds so no prayers could get through. |
45
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You treated us like dirty dishwater, threw us out in the backyard of the nations. |
46
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"Our enemies shout abuse, their mouths full of derision, spitting invective. |
47
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We've been to hell and back. We've nowhere to turn, nowhere to go. |
48
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Rivers of tears pour from my eyes at the smashup of my dear people. |
49
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"The tears stream from my eyes, an artesian well of tears, |
50
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Until you, GOD, look down from on high, look and see my tears. |
51
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When I see what's happened to the young women in the city, the pain breaks my heart. |
52
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"Enemies with no reason to be enemies hunted me down like a bird. |
53
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They threw me into a pit, then pelted me with stones. |
54
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Then the rains came and filled the pit. The water rose over my head. I said, 'It's all over.' |
55
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"I called out your name, O GOD, called from the bottom of the pit. |
56
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You listened when I called out, 'Don't shut your ears! Get me out of here! Save me!' |
57
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You came close when I called out. You said, 'It's going to be all right.' |
58
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"You took my side, Master; you brought me back alive! |
59
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GOD, you saw the wrongs heaped on me. Give me my day in court! |
60
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Yes, you saw their mean-minded schemes, their plots to destroy me. |
61
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"You heard, GOD, their vicious gossip, their behind-my-back plots to ruin me. |
62
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They never quit, these enemies of mine, dreaming up mischief, hatching out malice, day after day after day. |
63
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Sitting down or standing up--just look at them!-- they mock me with vulgar doggerel. |
64
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"Make them pay for what they've done, GOD. Give them their just deserts. |
65
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Break their miserable hearts! Damn their eyes! |
66
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Get good and angry. Hunt them down. Make a total demolition here under your heaven!" |