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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 built against me, and compassed [me] with gall and labor.

6 - He hath set me in dark places, as [they that are] 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] to me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.

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 hath perished from the LORD:

19 - Remembering my 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 to 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 should bear the yoke in his youth.

28 - He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.

29 - He putteth his mouth in the dust; if 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 causeth 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 - Why 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 to 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 - My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 - My eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

50 - Till the LORD shall look down, and behold from heaven.

51 - My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

52 - My enemies chased me fiercely, 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 my 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 thy 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 music.

64 - Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 - Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse to them.

66 - Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.