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I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath
(3:1)
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light
(3:2)
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day
(3:3)
My flesh and my skin hath he made old: he hath broken my bones
(3:4)
He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail
(3:5)
He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old
(3:6)
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy
(3:7)
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer
(3:8)
He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked
(3:9)
He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places
(3:10)
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate
(3:11)
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow
(3:12)
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins
(3:13)
I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day
(3:14)
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood
(3:15)
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes
(3:16)
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity
(3:17)
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
(3:18)
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall
(3:19)
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me
(3:20)
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope
(3:21)
[It is of] the Lord'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not
(3:22)
[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness
(3:23)
The Lord [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him
(3:24)
The Lord [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him
(3:25)
[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord
(3:26)
[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth
(3:27)
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him
(3:28)
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope
(3:29)
He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach
(3:30)
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
(3:31)
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies
(3:32)
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men
(3:33)
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
(3:34)
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
(3:35)
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not
(3:36)
Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?
(3:37)
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
(3:38)
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
(3:39)
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord
(3:40)
Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens
(3:41)
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned
(3:42)
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied
(3:43)
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through
(3:44)
Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people
(3:45)
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us
(3:46)
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction
(3:47)
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people
(3:48)
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
(3:49)
Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven
(3:50)
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city
(3:51)
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause
(3:52)
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me
(3:53)
Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off
(3:54)
I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon
(3:55)
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry
(3:56)
Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not
(3:57)
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life
(3:58)
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause
(3:59)
Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me
(3:60)
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, [and] all their imaginations against me;
(3:61)
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day
(3:62)
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their music
(3:63)
Render unto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands
(3:64)
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them
(3:65)
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord
(3:66)
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