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