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I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
2
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He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light; |
3
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indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long. |
4
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He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones. |
5
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He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. |
6
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He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead. |
7
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He has walled me in so that I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains. |
8
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Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer. |
9
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He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked. |
10
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Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding, |
11
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he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help. |
12
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He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows. |
13
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He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver. |
14
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I became the laughing-stock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long. |
15
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He has filled me with bitter herbs and sated me with gall. |
16
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He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust. |
17
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I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. |
18
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So I say, "My splendour is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD." |
19
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I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. |
20
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I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. |
21
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Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: |
22
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Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. |
23
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They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. |
24
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I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." |
25
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The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; |
26
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it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. |
27
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It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. |
28
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Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him. |
29
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Let him bury his face in the dust--there may yet be hope. |
30
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Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace. |
31
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For men are not cast off by the Lord for ever. |
32
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Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. |
33
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For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men. |
34
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To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land, |
35
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to deny a man his rights before the Most High, |
36
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to deprive a man of justice--would not the Lord see such things? |
37
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Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? |
38
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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? |
39
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Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins? |
40
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Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD. |
41
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Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say: |
42
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"We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven. |
43
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"You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity. |
44
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You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through. |
45
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You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. |
46
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"All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us. |
47
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We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction." |
48
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Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. |
49
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My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief, |
50
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until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. |
51
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What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city. |
52
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Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird. |
53
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They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me; |
54
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the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to be cut off. |
55
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I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit. |
56
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You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief." |
57
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You came near when I called you, and you said, "Do not fear." |
58
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O Lord, you took up my case; you redeemed my life. |
59
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You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause! |
60
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You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me. |
61
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O LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me-- |
62
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what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long. |
63
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Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs. |
64
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Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, for what their hands have done. |
65
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Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them! |
66
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Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD. |