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3:1  I am the man that hath seen affliction in the rod of his indignation.
3:2  He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not to light.
3:3  Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.
3:4  My flesh and my skin hath he caused to wax old, and he hath broken my bones.
3:5  He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor.
3:6  He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead forever.
3:7  He hath hedged about me, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chains heavy.
3:8  Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
3:9  He hath stopped up my ways with hewn stone, and turned away my paths.
3:10  He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
3:11  He hath stopped my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
3:12  He hath bent his bow, and made me a mark for the arrow.
3:13  He caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
3:14  I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
3:15  He hath filled me with bitterness, and made me drunken with wormwood.
3:16  He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath covered me with ashes.
3:17  Thus my soul was far off from peace: I forgot prosperity,
3:18  And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord,
3:19  Remembering mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormwood and the gall.
3:20  My soul hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
3:21  I consider this in mine heart: therefore have I hope.
3:22  It is the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
3:23  They are renewed every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
3:24  The Lord is my portion, saith my soul: therefore will I hope in him.
3:25  The Lord is good unto them that trust in him, and to the soul that seeketh him.
3:26  It is good both to trust, and to wait for the salvation of the Lord.
3:27  It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
3:28  He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
3:29  He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope.
3:30  He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproaches.
3:31  For the Lord will not forsake forever.
3:32  But though he send affliction, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
3:33  For he doth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children of men,
3:34  In stamping under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
3:35  In overthrowing the right of a man before the face of the most High,
3:36  In subverting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not.
3:37  Who is he then that saith, and it cometh to pass, and the Lord commandeth it not?
3:38  Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
3:39  Wherefore then is the living man sorrowful? man suffereth for his sin.
3:40  Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
3:41  Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens.
3:42  We have sinned, and have rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.
3:43  Thou hast covered us with wrath, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, and not spared.
3:44  Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
3:45  Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
3:46  All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
3:47  Fear, and a snare is come upon us with desolation and destruction.
3:48  Mine eye casteth out rivers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3:49  Mine eye droppeth without stay, and ceaseth not,
3:50  Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
3:51  Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
3:52  Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
3:53  They have shut up my lifein the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
3:54  Waters flowed over mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.
3:55  I called upon thy Name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
3:56  Thou hast heard my voice: stop not thine ear from my sigh, and from my cry.
3:57  Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidest, Fear not.
3:58  O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my soul, and hast redeemed my life.
3:59  O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong, judge thou my cause.
3:60  Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their devises against me:
3:61  Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me.
3:62  The lips also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.
3:63  Behold, their sitting down, and their rising up, how I am their song.
3:64  Give them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
3:65  Give them sorrow of heart even thy curse to them.
3:66  Persecute with wrath and destroy them from under the heaven, O Lord.