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