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 \v 1 I am a man who has seen affliction 
 \q2 under the rod of Yahweh's fury.
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 \v 2 He drove me away and caused me to walk 
 \q2 in darkness rather than light.
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 \v 3 Surely he turned his hand against me again and again, 
 \q2 the whole day long.
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 \v 4 He made my flesh and my skin waste away; 
 \q2 he broke my bones.
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 \v 5 He built up siege works against me, 
 \q2 and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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 \v 6 He made me live in dark places, 
 \q2 like those who died long ago.
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 \v 7 He built a wall around me and I cannot escape. 
 \q2 He made my chains heavy
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 \v 8 and though I call out and cry for help, 
 \q2 he shut out my prayer.
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 \v 9 He blocked my path with a wall of hewn stone; 
 \q2 he made my paths crooked.
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 \v 10 He is like a bear waiting to ambush me, 
 \q2 a lion in hiding;
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 \v 11 he turned aside my paths, 
 \q2 he has made me desolate.
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 \v 12 He bent his bow and set me 
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 \v 13 He pierced my kidneys 
 \q2 with the arrows of his quiver.
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 \v 14 I became a laughingstock to all my people, 
 \q2 their taunting song all day long.
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 \v 15 He filled me with bitter herbs 
 \q2 and forced me to drink wormwood.
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 \v 16 He has made my teeth grind with gravel, 
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 \v 17 My soul is deprived of peace; 
 \q2 I have forgotten what prosperity is.
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 \v 18 So I say, "My endurance has perished 
 \q2 and so has my hope in Yahweh."
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 \v 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, 
 \q2 the wormwood and bitterness.
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 \v 20 I continually remember it 
 \q2 and my soul is bowed down within me.
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 \v 21 But I call this to mind 
 \q2 and therefore I have hope:
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 \v 22 The steadfast love of Yahweh never ceases 
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 \v 23 they are new every morning; 
 \q2 your faithfulness is great.
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 \v 24 "Yahweh is my inheritance," says my soul, 
 \q2 therefore I will hope in him.
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 \v 25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, 
 \q2 to the soul who seeks him.
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 \v 26 It is good to wait silently 
 \q2 for the salvation of Yahweh.
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 \v 27 It is good for a man 
 \q2 that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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 \v 28 Let him sit alone in silence, 
 \q2 when it is laid upon him.
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 \v 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust—
 \q2 there may yet be hope.
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 \v 30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who strikes him, 
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 \v 31 For the Lord will not 
 \q2 reject us forever,
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 \v 32 but though he causes grief, he will have compassion 
 \q2 according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
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 \v 33 For he does not afflict from his heart 
 \q2 or torment the children of mankind.
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 \v 34 To crush underfoot 
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 \v 35 to deny a man justice 
 \q2 in the presence of the Most High,
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 \v 36 to deprive a person of justice in his lawsuit—
 \q2 the Lord would not approve such things!
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 \v 37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, 
 \q2 unless the Lord decreed it?
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 \v 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High 
 \q2 that both calamities and the good come?
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 \v 39 How can any person alive complain? 
 \q2 How can a person complain about the punishment for his sins?
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 \v 40 Let us examine our ways and test them, 
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 \v 41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands 
 \q2 to God in the heavens:
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 \v 42 "We have transgressed and rebelled, 
 \q2 and you have not forgiven.
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 \v 43 You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us, 
 \q2 you have killed and you have not spared.
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 \v 44 You have covered yourself with a cloud 
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 \v 45 You have made us like filthy scum 
 \q2 and refuse among the peoples.
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 \v 46 All our enemies 
 \q2 curse us,
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 \v 47 panic and pitfall have come upon us, 
 \q2 ruin and destruction.
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 \v 48 My eyes flow with streams of tears 
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 \v 49 My eyes will shed tears 
 \q2 without ceasing, without relief,
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 \v 50 until Yahweh from heaven 
 \q2 looks down and sees.
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 \v 51 My eyes cause grief to my soul 
 \q2 because of all the daughters of my city.
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 \v 52 I have been hunted like a bird 
 \q2 by those who were my enemies; 
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 \v 53 They cut off my life in the pit, 
 \q2 and they threw a stone on me,
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 \v 54 and they caused waters to overflow, covering my head. 
 \q2 I said, 'I have been cut off!'
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 \v 55 I called on your name, Yahweh, 
 \q2 from the depths of the pit.
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 \v 56 You heard my voice when I said, 
 \q2 'Do not close your ear to my cry for help.'
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 \v 57 You came near on the day I called on you; 
 \q2 you said, 'Do not fear.'
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 \v 58 Lord, you defended my soul's case, 
 \q2 you redeemed my life!
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 \v 59 Yahweh, you have seen 
 \q2 the wrong they have done to me; 
 \q2 judge my case.
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 \v 60 You have seen all their vengeance, 
 \q2 all their plots against me.
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 \v 61 You have heard their insults, Yahweh, 
 \q2 and all their plots against me.
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 \v 62 The lips and the meditations of my enemies 
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 \v 63 Look at how they sit and then rise up; 
 \q2 they mock me with their songs.
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 \v 64 Pay back to them what they deserve, Yahweh, 
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 \v 65 You will let their hearts be shameless! 
 \q2 May your condemnation be upon them!
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 \v 66 You pursue them in anger 
 \q2 and destroy them from under the heavens, Yahweh!"
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 \v 1 Remember, Yahweh, what has happened to us;
 \q 2look and see our disgrace.
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 \v 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers;
 \q2 our houses to foreigners.
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 \v 3 We have become orphans, without a father,
 \q2 and our mothers are like widows.
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 \v 4 We must pay silver for the water we drink,
 \q2 and we must pay silver to get our own wood.
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 \v 5 Those who are coming after us are close behind us;
 \q2 we are weary and we can find no rest.
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 \v 6 We have given ourselves to Egypt and to Assyria
 \q2 to get enough food.
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 \v 7 Our fathers sinned, and they are no more,
 \q2 and we bear their iniquities.
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 \v 8 Slaves rule over us,
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 \v 9 We get our bread only by risking our lives,
 \q2 because of the sword in the wilderness.
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 \v 10 Our skin has grown as hot as an oven
 \q2 because of the burning heat of hunger.
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 \v 11 Women are raped in Zion,
 \q2 and virgins in the cities of Judah.
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 \v 12 Princes are hung up by their own hands,
 \q2 and no honor is shown to the elders.
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 \v 13 Young men are forced to grind grain with a millstone,
 \q2 and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.
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 \v 14 The elders have left the city gate,
 \q2 and the young men have left their music.
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 \v 15 The joy of our heart has ceased
 \q2 and our dancing has turned into mourning.
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 \v 16 The crown has fallen from our head;
 \q2 woe to us, for we have sinned!\b
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 \v 17 For this our heart has become sick,
 \q2 for these things our eyes grow dim
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 \v 18 for Mount Zion lies desolate, 
 \q2 with jackals prowling over it.
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 \v 19 But you, Yahweh, reign forever,
 \q2 and you will sit upon your throne 
 \q2 from generation to generation.
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 \v 20 Why do you forget us forever?
 \q2 Why do you abandon us 
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 \q2 and we will be restored.
 \q Renew our days 
 \q2 as they were long ago—
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 \v 22 unless you have utterly rejected us
 \q2 and you are angry with us beyond measure.