31I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.+2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.+3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again 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 made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.+7He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.+8Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.+9He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.+10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, 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 shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.+14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.+15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me 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 is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.+
The Prophet’s Hope
19Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.+20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.+21This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.+22[It is of] Jehovah’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.+23They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.+24Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.+25Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.+26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.+27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.+28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.+29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.+30Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.+31For the Lord will not cast off for ever.+32For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.+33For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.+34To crush under foot 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.+
God’s Justice
37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?+38Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there 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 Jehovah.+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 pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.+44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.+45Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.+46All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.+47Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.+48Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.+49Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,+50Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.+51Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.+52They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.+53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.+54Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.+55I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.+56Thou heardest 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 Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.+60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.+61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,+62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.+63Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.+64Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.+65Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.+66Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.+
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