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[1] O MIGHTY God, see my affliction; I am chastised by the rod of his wrath.
[2] He has led me, but I walked in darkness and not in light.
[3] But surely is he turned against me, he turns his hand against me all the day.
[4] My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.
[5] He has built ramparts against me, and compassed me with bitterness and travail.
[6] He has made me to dwell in darkness, like a dead man for ever.
[7] He has hedged me about, that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy.
[8] Though I beseech and pray, he does not hearken to my prayer.
[9] He has enclosed my ways with thorns, he has made my paths crooked.
[10] He has been to me as a wolf lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
[11] He has made my ways crooked, and cut me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
[12] He has bent his bow, and set me up as a mark for the arrow.
[13] Behold, he has caused his arrows to enter into my reins.
[14] I have become the ridicule of all nations; and their scoffing song all the day.
[15] He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
[16] He has broken my teeth with a stone, he has covered me with ashes.
[17] My soul has gone astray from peace, I have forgotten prosperity.
[18] And I said, My fame and my hope are perished from the LORD.
[19] Remember my affliction and my chastisement, the bitterness and the sorrow.
[20] Remember and restore my life
[21] This I recall to mind; therefore I have hope in God.
[22] Surely the kindness of the LORD never ceases and his mercies never fail.
[23] They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
[24] The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore I will hope in him.
[25] The LORD is good to him who waits for him, to the soul that seeks him.
[26] It is good for a man that he should hope for both the truth and the salvation of the LORD.
[27] It is good for a man that he bear thy yoke in his youth.
[28] Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid thy yoke upon him.
[29] Let him humble himself, for there is hope.
[30] Let him turn his cheek to him that smites him; let him be filled with reproach.
[31] For the LORD will not forget for ever.
[32] But though he cause affliction, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
[33] For he does not afflict willingly, but he afflicts the children of the mighty men,
[34] To subdue under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
[35] To turn aside the right of a man toward the face of the Most High.
[36] To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD does not approve
[37] Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the LORD has not commanded it?
[38] Out of the mouth of the Most High evil and good do not come.
[39] Therefore, why should a living man question concerning punishment for his sins?
[40] Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
[41] Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in heaven
[42] We have transgressed and rebelled; and thou hast not pardoned.
[43] Thou hast covered us with thy anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
[44] Thou hast covered thyself with thy cloud; thou hast let our prayer pass by.
[45] Thou hast made us uprooted and despised among the peoples.
[46] My eyes run down with tears and do not cease, because there is no comforter,
[47] Till the LORD look down and behold from heaven.
[48] My eyes are worn with tears because of the destruction of all the daughters of the cities of my people.
[49] All our enemies speak evil against us.
[50] Fear and trembling have come upon us, a snare and destruction.
[51] I wept vehemently over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
[52] My enemies have hunted me like a bird, without cause.
[53] They have cut off my life in a pit; they cast stones at me.
[54] Water flowed over my head; then I said, I am cast far off
[55] I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the depths of the pit.
[56] Thou didst hear my voice; turn not thine ear to my cry; but relieve me and save me.
[57] Thou didst draw near in the day when I called upon thee; thou didst say, Fear not.
[58] O LORD, thou hast pleaded my cause; thou hast saved my life.
[59] O LORD, thou hast seen my affliction; thou hast judged my cause.
[60] Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
[61] Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and their devices against me,
[62] The lips of those who rose up against me and their devices against me all day long.
[63] Behold their conduct and their behavior I do understand, because of their devices.
[64] Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
[65] Give them sorrow of heart; let thy affliction pursue them.
[66] Destroy them in thine anger from under thy heavens, O LORD
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