Hope of Relief through God's Mercy |
1 | I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
2 | He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. |
3 | Surely against me is he turned;
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he turneth his hand against me all the day. |
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4 | My flesh and my skin hath he made old;
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5 | He hath builded against me,
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and compassed me with gall and travail. |
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6 | He hath set me in dark places,
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as they that be dead of old. |
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7 | He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out:
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he hath made my chain heavy. |
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8 | Also when I cry and shout,
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he shutteth out my prayer. |
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9 | He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone;
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he hath made my paths crooked. |
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10 | He was unto me as a bear lying in wait,
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and as a lion in secret places. |
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11 | He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces:
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he hath made me desolate. |
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12 | He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
13 | He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. |
14 | I was a derision to all my people;
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and their song all the day. |
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15 | He hath filled me with bitterness,
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he hath made me drunken with wormwood. |
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16 | He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones,
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he hath covered me with ashes. |
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17 | And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace:
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18 | And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: |
19 | remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
20 | My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. |
21 | This I recall to my mind,
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22 | It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed,
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because his compassions fail not. |
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23 | They are new every morning:
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great is thy faithfulness. |
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24 | The LORD is my portion, saith my soul;
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therefore will I hope in him. |
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25 | The LORD is good unto them that wait for him,
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to the soul that seeketh him. |
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26 | It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. |
27 | It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. |
28 | He sitteth alone and keepeth silence,
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because he hath borne it upon him. |
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29 | He putteth his mouth in the dust;
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if so be there may be hope. |
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30 | He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him:
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he is filled full with reproach. |
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31 | For the Lord will not cast off for ever: |
32 | but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion
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according to the multitude of his mercies. |
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33 | For he doth not afflict willingly,
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nor grieve the children of men. |
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34 | To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, |
35 | to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, |
36 | to subvert a man in his cause,
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37 | Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass,
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when the Lord commandeth it not? |
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38 | Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? |
39 | Wherefore doth a living man complain,
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a man for the punishment of his sins? |
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40 | Let us search and try our ways,
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and turn again to the LORD. |
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41 | Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. |
42 | We have transgressed and have rebelled:
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43 | Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us:
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thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. |
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44 | Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud,
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that our prayer should not pass through. |
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45 | Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. |
46 | All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. |
47 | Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. |
48 | Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water
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for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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49 | Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, |
50 | till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. |
51 | Mine eye affecteth mine heart,
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because of all the daughters of my city. |
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52 | Mine enemies chased me sore,
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like a bird, without cause. |
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53 | They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
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and cast a stone upon me. |
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54 | Waters flowed over mine head;
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then I said, I am cut off. |
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55 | I called upon thy name, O LORD,
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56 | Thou hast heard my voice:
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hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
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57 | Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee:
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58 | O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul;
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thou hast redeemed my life. |
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59 | O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong:
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60 | Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. |
61 | Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD,
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and all their imaginations against me; |
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62 | the lips of those that rose up against me,
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and their device against me all the day. |
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63 | Behold their sitting down, and their rising up;
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64 | Render unto them a recompense, O LORD,
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according to the work of their hands. |
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65 | Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. |
66 | Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. |
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