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| [1]I am the man that hath seen affliction in the rod of his indignation. |
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| [2]He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not to light. |
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| [3]Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day. |
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| [4]My flesh and my skin hath he caused to wax old, and he hath broken my bones. |
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| [5]He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labor. |
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| [6]He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead forever. |
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| [7]He hath hedged about me that I cannot get out: he hath made my chains heavy. |
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| [8]Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. |
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| [9]He hath stopped up my ways with hewn stone, and turned away my paths. |
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| [10]He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. |
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| [11]He hath stopped my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. |
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| [12]He hath bent his bow and made me a mark for the arrow. |
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| [13]He caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. |
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| [14]I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. |
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| [15]He hath filled me with bitterness, and made me drunken with wormwood. |
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| [16]He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath covered me with ashes. |
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| [17]Thus my soul was far off from peace: I forgot prosperity, |
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| [18]And I said, My strength and mine hope is perished from the Lord, |
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| [19]Remembering mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormwood and the gall. |
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| [20]My soul hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me. |
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| [21]I consider this in mine heart: therefore have I hope. |
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| [22]It is the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. |
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| [23]They are renewed every morning: great is thy faithfulness. |
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| [24]The Lord is my portion, saith my soul: therefore will I hope in him. |
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| [25]The Lord is good unto them that trust in him, and to the soul that seeketh him. |
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| [26]It is good both to trust, and to wait for the salvation of the Lord. |
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| [27]It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. |
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| [28]He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath born it upon him. |
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| [29]He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope. |
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| [30]He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproaches. |
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| [31]For the Lord will not forsake forever. |
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| [32]But though he send affliction, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. |
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| [33]For he doth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children of men, |
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| [34]In stamping under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, |
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| [35]In overthrowing the right of a man before the face of the Most High, |
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| [36]In subverting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not. |
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| [37]Who is he then that saith, and it cometh to pass, and the Lord commandeth it not? |
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| [38]Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? |
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| [39]Wherefore then is the living man sorrowful? Man suffereth for his sin. |
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| [40]Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. |
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| [41]Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens. |
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| [42]We have sinned, and have rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared. |
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| [43]Thou hast covered us with wrath, and persecuted us: thou hast slain and not spared. |
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| [44]Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. |
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| [45]Thou hast made us as the off scouring and refuse in the midst of the people. |
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| [46]All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. |
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| [47]Fear, and a snare is come upon us with desolation and destruction. |
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| [48]Mine eye casteth out rivers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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| [49]Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not, |
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| [50]Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven. |
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| [51]Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. |
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| [52]Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird, without cause. |
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| [53]They have shut up my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. |
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| [54]Waters flowed over mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed. |
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| [55]I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. |
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| [56]Thou hast heard my voice: stop not thine ear from my sigh and from my cry. |
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| [57]Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidest, Fear not. |
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| [58]O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my soul, and hast redeemed my life. |
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| [59]O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong, judge thou my cause. |
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| [60]Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their devises against me. |
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| [61]Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me: |
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| [62]The lips also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually. |
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| [63]Behold, their sitting down and their rising up, how I am their song. |
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| [64]Give them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands. |
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| [65]Give them sorrow of heart, even thy curse to them. |
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| [66]Persecute with wrath and destroy them from under the heaven, O Lord. |
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