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[1]I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
[2]Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
[3]Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.
[4]My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.
[5]He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
[6]He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.
[7]He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
[8]Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
[9]He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
[10]He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, 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 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
[14]I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
[15]He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
[16]He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
[17]And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
[18]And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
[19]Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
[20]My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
[21]-- This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.
[22]It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
[23]they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
[24]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 one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.
[27]It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:
[28]He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;
[29]he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;
[30]he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.
[31]For the Lord will not cast off for ever;
[32]but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:
[33]for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.
[34]To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
[35]to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
[36]to wrong a man in his cause, -- will not the Lord see it?
[37]Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?
[38]Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed 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 ùGod in the heavens.
[42]We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
[43]Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.
[44]Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.
[45]Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
[46]All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
[47]Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.
[48]Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
[49]Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
[50]till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.
[51]Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
[52]They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.
[53]They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me.
[54]Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
[55]I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.
[56]Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
[57]Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.
[58]Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.
[59]Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
[60]Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.
[61]Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;
[62]the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day.
[63]Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.
[64]Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;
[65]give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;
[66]pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
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