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3:1  I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
3:2  He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3:3  Surely against me is He turned; He turneth His hand against me all the day.
3:4  My flesh and my skin hath He made old; He hath broken my bones.
3:5  He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
3:6  He hath set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old.
3:7  He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out; He hath made my chain heavy.
3:8  Also when I cry and shout, He shutteth out my prayer.
3:9  He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He hath made my paths crooked.
3:10  He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
3:11  He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.
3:12  He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
3:13  He hath 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; He hath made me drunken with wormwood.
3:16  He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He hath covered me with ashes.
3:17  And Thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
3:18  And I said, “My strength and my hope are perished from the Lord,”
3:19  remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
3:20  My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
3:21  This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope:
3:22  It is through the Lord’S mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
3:23  They are new 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 wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.
3:26  It is good that a man should both hope and quietly 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 so it be, there may be hope.
3:30  He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.
3:31  For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
3:32  But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
3:33  For He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
3:34  To crush under His feet all the prisoners of the earth,
3:35  to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
3:36  to subvert a man in his cause—the Lord approveth not.
3:37  Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
3:38  Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good?
3:39  Why then doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
3:40  Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
3:41  Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
3:42  We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.
3:43  Thou hast covered Thyself with anger and persecuted us; Thou hast slain, Thou hast not pitied.
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 mouths against us.
3:47  Fear and a snare have come upon us, desolation and destruction.
3:48  Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3:49  Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
3:50  till the Lord look down and behold from heaven.
3:51  Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
3:52  Mine enemies chased me sorely like a bird, without cause.
3:53  They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
3:54  Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, “I am cut off!”
3:55  I called upon Thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
3:56  Thou hast heard my voice: “Hide not Thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.”
3:57  Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst, “Fear not.”
3:58  O Lord, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; Thou 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 imaginings against me.
3:61  Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginings against me,
3:62  the lips of those that rose up against me, and their devices against me all the day.
3:63  Behold their sitting down and their rising up; I am their music.
3:64  Render unto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
3:65  Give them sorrow of heart, Thy curse unto them.
3:66  Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.