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