| Chapter 3 |
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I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. --
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He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light. --
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Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day. --
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My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. --
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He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail. --
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He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old. --
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He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. --
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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. --
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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. --
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He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places. --
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He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. --
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He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. --
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He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. --
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I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day. --
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He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. --
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He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. --
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And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. --
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And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: --
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Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. --
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My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. --
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This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. --
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[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. --
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[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness. --
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The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. --
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The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him. --
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[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. --
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[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. --
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He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him. --
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He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. --
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He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. --
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For the Lord will not cast off for ever: --
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But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. --
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For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. --
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To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, --
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To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, --
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To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. --
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Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not? --
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Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? --
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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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We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. --
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Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. --
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Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through. --
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Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. --
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All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. --
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Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. --
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Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. --
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Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, --
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Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. --
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Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. --
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Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. --
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. --
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Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off. --
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I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. --
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Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. --
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Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. --
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O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. --
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O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. --
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Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me. --
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Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me; --
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The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. --
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Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick. --
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Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. --
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Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. --
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Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. --
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