3:32 For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.
3:33 For He does not afflict from His heart Or grieve the sons of men.
3:34 To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,
3:35 To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High,
3:36 To defraud a man in his legal case— These things the Lord does not see with approval.
3:37 Who is there who speaks and it happens, Unless the Lord has commanded it?
3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both calamities and good go forth?
3:39 Why should any living person or any man Complain because of his sins?
3:40 Let us search out and examine our ways, And let us return to Yahweh.
3:41 We lift up our heart to our hands Toward God in heaven;
3:42 We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.
3:43 You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have killed and have not spared.
3:44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.
3:45 You have made us mere scum and refuse In the midst of the peoples.
3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
3:47 Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;
3:48 My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3:49 My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping,
3:50 Until Yahweh looks down And sees from heaven.
3:51 My eyes deal severely with my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.
3:52 My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird;
3:53 They have silenced my life in the pit And have placed a stone on me.
3:54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off!”
3:55 I called on Your name, O Yahweh, Out of the lowest pit.
3:56 You have heard my voice, “Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help.”
3:57 You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not fear!”
3:58 O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause; You have redeemed my life.
3:59 O Yahweh, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.
3:60 You have seen all their vengeance, All their purposes against me.
3:61 You have heard their reproach, O Yahweh, All their purposes against me.
3:62 The lips of those who rise against me and their whispering Are against me all day long.
3:63 Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
3:64 You will recompense them, O Yahweh, According to the work of their hands.
3:65 You will give them dullness of heart; Your curse will be on them.
3:66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of Yahweh!
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