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