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- I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.
- He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
- Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.
- He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.
- He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
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- In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.
- He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.
- Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
- He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.
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- He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
- He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.
- He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.
- I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.
- He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.
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- He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
- My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.
- So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD."
- Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
- Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me.
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- This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
- The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.
- They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
- "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I have hope in Him."
- The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.
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- It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD.
- It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.
- Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him.
- Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.
- Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.
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- For the Lord will not reject forever,
- For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.
- For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men.
- To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,
- To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High,
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- To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve.
- Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it?
- Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth?
- Why should any living mortal, or any man, Offer complaint in view of his sins?
- Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD.
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- We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven;
- We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned.
- You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and have not spared.
- You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.
- You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.
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- All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
- Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;
- My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping,
- Until the LORD looks down And sees from heaven.
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- My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.
- My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird;
- They have silenced me in the pit And have placed a stone on me.
- Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"
- I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit.
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- You have heard my voice, "Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help."
- You drew near when I called on You; You said, "Do not fear!"
- O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life.
- O LORD, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.
- You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
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- You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me.
- The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long.
- Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
- You will recompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.
- You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them.
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- You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD!
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