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I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
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He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. |
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Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day. |
4. |
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. |
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He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. |
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He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. |
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He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy. |
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Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer. |
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He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. |
10. |
He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. |
11. |
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. |
12. |
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
13. |
He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. |
14. |
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. |
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He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood. |
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He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes. |
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And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity. |
18. |
And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah. |
19. |
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
20. |
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me. |
21. |
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. |
22. |
`It is of' Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. |
23. |
They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. |
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Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. |
25. |
Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. |
26. |
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. |
27. |
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. |
28. |
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. |
29. |
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. |
30. |
Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach. |
31. |
For the Lord will not cast off for ever. |
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For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. |
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For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. |
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To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, |
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To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, |
36. |
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. |
37. |
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
38. |
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good? |
39. |
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
40. |
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. |
41. |
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. |
42. |
We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned. |
43. |
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. |
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Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. |
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Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
46. |
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. |
47. |
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction. |
48. |
Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
49. |
Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, |
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Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven. |
51. |
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
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They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. |
53. |
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. |
54. |
Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
55. |
I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon. |
56. |
Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
57. |
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not. |
58. |
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. |
59. |
O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause. |
60. |
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. |
61. |
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me, |
62. |
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. |
63. |
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. |
64. |
Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands. |
65. |
Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them. |
66. |
Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah. |