I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath (3:1)

He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light (3:2)

Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day (3:3)

My flesh and my skin hath he made old: he hath broken my bones (3:4)

He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail (3:5)

He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old (3:6)

He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy (3:7)

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer (3:8)

He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked (3:9)

He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places (3:10)

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate (3:11)

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow (3:12)

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins (3:13)

I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day (3:14)

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood (3:15)

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes (3:16)

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity (3:17)

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: (3:18)

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall (3:19)

My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me (3:20)

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope (3:21)

[It is of] the Lord'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not (3:22)

[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness (3:23)

The Lord [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him (3:24)

The Lord [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him (3:25)

[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord (3:26)

[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth (3:27)

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him (3:28)

He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope (3:29)

He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach (3:30)

For the Lord will not cast off for ever: (3:31)

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies (3:32)

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men (3:33)

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, (3:34)

To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, (3:35)

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not (3:36)

Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not? (3:37)

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? (3:38)

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? (3:39)

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord (3:40)

Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens (3:41)

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned (3:42)

Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied (3:43)

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through (3:44)

Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people (3:45)

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us (3:46)

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction (3:47)

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people (3:48)

Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, (3:49)

Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven (3:50)

Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city (3:51)

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause (3:52)

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me (3:53)

Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off (3:54)

I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon (3:55)

Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry (3:56)

Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not (3:57)

O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life (3:58)

O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause (3:59)

Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me (3:60)

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, [and] all their imaginations against me; (3:61)

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day (3:62)

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their music (3:63)

Render unto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands (3:64)

Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them (3:65)

Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord (3:66)

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