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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. arrows: Heb. sons
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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. bitterness: Heb. bitternesses
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He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. covered...: or, rolled me in the ashes
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And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. prosperity: Heb. good
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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. Remembering: or, Remember
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My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. humbled: Heb. bowed
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This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. recall...: Heb. make to return to my heart
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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. willingly: Heb. from his heart
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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, the most High: or, a superior
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To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. approveth not: or, seeth 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? complain: or, murmur
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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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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. mine heart: Heb. my soul because...: or, more than all
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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. sorrow...: or, obstinacy of heart
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Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

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