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I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.
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He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
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He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail.
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He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead.
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He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.
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Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
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He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.
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He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.
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He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
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He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
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He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
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He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.
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And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.
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And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Jehovah.
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Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
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This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:
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It is of Jehovah's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.
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They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.
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Jehovah is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.
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Jehovah is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
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It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him.
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Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
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Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.
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For the Lord will not cast off forever.
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For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
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For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons 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,
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to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.
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Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?
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Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good?
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Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
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Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
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We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.
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Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.
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Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
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Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
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All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
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Fear and the pit have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
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My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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My eye pours down, and does not cease, without any intermission,
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till Jehovah looks down, and beholds from heaven.
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My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
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They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
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Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.
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I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
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Thou heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not.
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O Lord, thou have pleaded the causes of my soul. Thou have redeemed my life.
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O Jehovah, thou have seen my wrong. Judge thou my cause.
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Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
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Thou have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
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the lips of those who rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
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Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up. I am their song.
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Thou will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
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Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.
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Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.