1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
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4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
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5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
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7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
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8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
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9 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
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10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
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11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
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12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
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15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
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16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
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17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
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18 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
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19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
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21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
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22 [It is of] Yahweh's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
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23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
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24 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
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26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
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27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
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29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
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30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
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31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
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32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
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33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
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34 To crush under foot 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 doesn't approve.
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37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
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38 Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
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39 Why does 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 Yahweh.
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41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
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42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.
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43 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.
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44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
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45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
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46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
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47 Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
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48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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49 My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
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50 Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.
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51 My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
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52 They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
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53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
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54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
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55 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
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56 You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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57 You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.
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58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
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59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause.
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60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
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61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices 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 See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
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64 You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
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65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
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66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
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