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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.” |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope: |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.” |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For the Lord will not cast us off forever. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land, |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35to deny a man justice before the Most High, |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it? |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High? |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins? |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.” |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46All our enemies open their mouths against us. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief, |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city. |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird. |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me. |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. |
| 55[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 55I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit. |
| 56[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 56You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.” |
| 57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.” |
| 58[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 58You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life. |
| 59[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 59You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause! |
| 60[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 60You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me. |
| 61[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 61O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me— |
| 62[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 62the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long. |
| 63[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song. |
| 64[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 64You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. |
| 65[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 65Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them! |
| 66[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD. |
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