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[1]I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
[2]He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.
[3]Surely against me He turneth His hand again and again all the day.
[4]My flesh and my skin hath He worn out; He hath broken my bones.
[5]He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
[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 go forth; He hath made my chain heavy.
[8]Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.
[9]He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
[10]He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
[11]He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made m 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, and their song all the day.
[15]He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.
[16]He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.
[17]And my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity.
[18]And I said: 'My strength is perished, and m expectation from 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.'
[19]Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.
[20]My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
[21]This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
[22]Surely 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇'S mercies are not consumed, surely His compassions fail not.
[23]They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.
[24]'𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 is m portion', saith my soul; 'Therefore will I hope in Him.'
[25]𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.
[26]It is good that a man should quietly wait for the salvation of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.
[27]It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
[28]Let him sit alone and keep silence, because He hath laid it upon him.
[29]Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
[30]Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him let him be filled full with reproach.
[31]For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
[32]For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
[33]For He doth not afflict willingly, nor 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 subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
[37]Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
[38]Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good?
[39]Wherefore doth a living man complain, a strong man because of his sins?
[40]Let us search and try our ways, and return to 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.
[41]Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
[42]We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.
[43]Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.
[44]Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
[45]Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
[46]All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
[47]Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.
[48]Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the breach of the daughter of my people.
[49]Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
[50]Till 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 look forth, and behold from heaven.
[51]Mine eye affected my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
[52]They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine enemies without cause.
[53]They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones upon me.
[54]Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'
[55]I called upon Thy name, O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, Out of the lowest dungeon.
[56]Thou heardest 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]O Lord, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; Thou hast redeemed my life.
[59]O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, Thou hast seen my wrong; judge Thou my cause.
[60]Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
[61]Thou hast heard their taunt, O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, and all their devices against me;
[62]The lips of those that rose up against me, and their muttering against me all the day.
[63]Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
[64]Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, according to the work of their hands.
[65]Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, Thy curse unto them.
[66]Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.
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