| Chapter 3 |
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I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
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He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. |
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Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day. |
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My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones. |
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He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. |
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He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. |
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He has walled me about, that I can`t go forth; he has made my chain heavy. |
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Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. |
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He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked. |
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He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. |
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He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate. |
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He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
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He has 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 has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood. |
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He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes. |
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You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity. |
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I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh. |
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Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
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My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. |
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This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. |
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It is of Yahweh`s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn`t fail. |
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They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. |
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Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him. |
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Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. |
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It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh. |
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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 has laid it on him. |
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Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. |
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Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach. |
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For the Lord will not cast off forever. |
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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 does 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 doesn`t approve. |
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Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn`t command it? |
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Doesn`t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? |
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Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. |
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Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. |
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We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned. |
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You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied. |
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You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. |
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You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
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All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. |
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Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction. |
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My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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My eye pours down, and doesn`t cease, without any intermission, |
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Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven. |
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My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
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They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. |
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. |
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Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
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I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon. |
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You heard my voice; don`t hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
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You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don`t be afraid. |
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Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life. |
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Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause. |
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You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. |
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You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices 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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See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. |
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You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands. |
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You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them. |
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You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh. |