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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 caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. |
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Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again 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 made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. |
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He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy. |
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Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer. |
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He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. |
| 10 |
He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. |
| 11 |
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. |
| 12 |
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
| 13 |
He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. |
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I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. |
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He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me 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 is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah. |
| 19 |
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
| 20 |
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me. |
| 21 |
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. |
| 22 |
It is of Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. |
| 23 |
They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. |
| 24 |
Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. |
| 25 |
Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. |
| 26 |
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. |
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. |
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Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. |
| 29 |
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. |
| 30 |
Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach. |
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For the Lord will not cast off for ever. |
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For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. |
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For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. |
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To crush under foot 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? |
| 38 |
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good? |
| 39 |
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
| 40 |
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. |
| 41 |
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. |
| 42 |
We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned. |
| 43 |
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. |
| 44 |
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. |
| 45 |
Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
| 46 |
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. |
| 47 |
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction. |
| 48 |
Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 49 |
Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, |
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Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven. |
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Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
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They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. |
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. |
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Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| 55 |
I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon. |
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Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
| 57 |
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not. |
| 58 |
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. |
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O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause. |
| 60 |
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. |
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Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me, |
| 62 |
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. |
| 63 |
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. |
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Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands. |
| 65 |
Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them. |
| 66 |
Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah. |
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How is the gold become dim! how is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. |
| 2 |
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! |
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Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. |
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The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. |
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They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. |
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For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her. |
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Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire. |
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Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. |
| 9 |
They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field. |
| 10 |
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 11 |
Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof. |
| 12 |
The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem. |
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It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her. |
| 14 |
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments. |
| 15 |
Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn here. |
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The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders. |
| 17 |
Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. |
| 18 |
They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. |
| 19 |
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. |
| 20 |
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations. |
| 21 |
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. |
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The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover thy sins. |
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Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach. |
| 2 |
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. |
| 3 |
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. |
| 4 |
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us. |
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Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. |
| 6 |
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 7 |
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. |
| 8 |
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. |
| 9 |
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| 10 |
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine. |
| 11 |
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. |
| 12 |
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. |
| 13 |
The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. |
| 14 |
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music. |
| 15 |
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning. |
| 16 |
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned. |
| 17 |
For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim; |
| 18 |
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it. |
| 19 |
Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation. |
| 20 |
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time? |
| 21 |
Turn thou us unto thee, O Jehovah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. |
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us. |