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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I am a man familiar with affliction— under the rod of God's anger. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He has led me—brought me into darkness, not into light. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He truly turned his hand against me, again and again, all day long. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He made my flesh and skin prematurely old; he broke my bones. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He laid siege against me, surrounding me with bitterness and suffering. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He has forced me to live in darkness, like those who are long dead. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he placed heavy chains on me. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Indeed, when I cry out, calling for help, he shuts out my prayer. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He impeded my way with blocks of stone, making my paths uneven. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He is like a bear that lies in wait for me, a lion in hiding. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He forced me off my path, tearing me to pieces and making me desolate. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He bent his bow, aiming at me with his arrow. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He caused his war arrows to pierce my vital organs. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I have become a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunts throughout the day. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He has filled me with bitterness, making me drink wormwood. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He broke my teeth on gravel, covering me with dust. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17You have removed peace from my life; I have forgotten what prosperity is. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So I say, "My strength is gone as is my hope in the LORD." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Remember my affliction and homelessness— wormwood and gall! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20My mind keeps reflecting on it, and I become depressed. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21This is what comes to mind, and therefore I have hope: |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Because of the LORD's gracious love we are not consumed, since his compassions never end. |
| 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 all I have," says my soul, "Therefore I will trust in him." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the person who searches for him. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26It is good to hope and wait patiently for the LORD's salvation. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27It is good when a young man carries the yoke of discipline in his youth. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28He is to sit apart and remain silent, because the LORD has laid it upon him. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Let him fall face down in the dust, so there may yet be hope. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He will endure being slapped in the face, bringing him public disgrace. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Indeed, the Lord will not always reject us — |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32though he causes grief, his compassion abounds according to his gracious love. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33For he does not deliberately hurt or grieve human beings. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34When any of the prisoners of the earth are crushed underfoot, |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35when a person's rights are perverted in defiance of the Most High. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36When a man is thwarted in his appeal, does the Lord condone it? |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37Who can command, and it happens, without the Lord having ordered it? |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Do not both good and evil things proceed from the mouth of the Most High? |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Why should anyone living complain, any mortal, about being punished for sin? |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Let us examine our lifestyles, putting them to the test, and turn back to the LORD. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42As for us, we have sinned and rebelled; but you have not pardoned us. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Clothing yourself with anger, you pursued us. You killed without pity, |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44You covered yourself with a cloud that prayer cannot pierce. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45You have reduced us to scum and garbage among the nations. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46All our enemies jeer at us with gaping mouths. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47Panic and pitfalls beset us, along with devastation and ruin. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48My eyes run with rivers of tears over the destruction of my cherished people. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49My tears pour down ceaselessly; I am far from relief |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50until the LORD bends down to see from heaven. |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51What I see grieves my soul because of all the young women of my city. |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52My enemies hunted me like a bird, viciously and without justification. |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53They dumped me alive into a pit, sealing me in with stone. |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54Water closed over my head, and I said, "I'm a dead man." |
| 55[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 55I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the Pit, |
| 56[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 56You heard my voice— don't close your ear to my sighs and cries. |
| 57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57You drew near when I called out to you. You said, "Stop being afraid" |
| 58[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 58Lord, you have defended my cause; you have redeemed my life. |
| 59[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 59LORD, you observed how I have been wronged; now make your ruling in my case. |
| 60[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 60You examined their plans for vengeance, all of their plots against me. |
| 61[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 61LORD, you listened to their insults— all their plots against me, |
| 62[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 62the whisperings of my opponents, their scheming against me all day long. |
| 63[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 63Watch! Whether they sit down or stand up, they mock me with their songs. |
| 64[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 64Pay them back, LORD, according to their actions. |
| 65[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 65Give them an anguished heart; may your curse be upon them! |
| 66[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 66Pursue them in your anger and destroy them from under the LORD's heaven. |
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