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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD's wrath. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken 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 long dead. |
| 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 call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So I say, "My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions 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] | 24I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one 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 young. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Let him bury his face in the dust-- there may yet be hope. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land, |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35to deny people their rights before the Most High, |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36to deprive them of justice-- would not the Lord see such things? |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Why should the living complain when punished for their sins? |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say: |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42"We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43"You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get 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] | 46"All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction." |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49My eyes will flow 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] | 51What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city. |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird. |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me; |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish. |
| 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 plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief." |
| 57[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 57You came near when I called you, and you said, "Do not fear." |
| 58[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 58You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life. |
| 59[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 59LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause! |
| 60[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 60You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me. |
| 61[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 61LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me-- |
| 62[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 62what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long. |
| 63[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 63Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs. |
| 64[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 64Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done. |
| 65[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 65Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them! |
| 66[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 66Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD. |
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