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- I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;
- indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.
- He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
- He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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- I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
- Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
- My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
- He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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- He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
- He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.
- Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
- He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
- Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
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- He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
- He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
- Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
- He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
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- he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.
- He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
- He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
- I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
- He has filled me with bitter herbs and sated me with gall.
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- He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
- He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
- I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
- He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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- He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.
- I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
- So I say, "My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD."
- I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
- I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
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- He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
- And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
- And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
- Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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- Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
- Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
- They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
- I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."
- The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
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- This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
- It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
- They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
- The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
- The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
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- it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
- It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.
- Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him.
- Let him bury his face in the dust-- there may yet be hope.
- Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.
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- It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
- It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
- He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
- He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
- He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
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- For men are not cast off by the Lord forever.
- Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
- For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.
- To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
- to deny a man his rights before the Most High,
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- For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
- But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
- For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
- To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
- To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
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- to deprive a man of justice-- would not the Lord see such things?
- Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
- Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
- Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins?
- Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
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- To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
- Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
- Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
- Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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- Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
- "We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
- "You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
- You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
- You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
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- Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
- We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
- Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
- Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
- Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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- "All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
- We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction."
- Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
- My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
- until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
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- All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
- Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
- Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.
- Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
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- What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
- Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
- They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
- the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to be cut off.
- I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit.
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- Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
- Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
- They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
- Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
- I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
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- You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief."
- You came near when I called you, and you said, "Do not fear."
- O Lord, you took up my case; you redeemed my life.
- You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
- You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
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- Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
- Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
- O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
- O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
- Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
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- O LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me-
- what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
- Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
- Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, for what their hands have done.
- Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
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- Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
- The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
- Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
- Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
- Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
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- Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
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- Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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