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3:1  I am a man that sees affliction in the rod of his wrath.
3:2  He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3:3  Surely he is turned against me; he turns his hand against me all the day.
3:4  My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.
3:5  He has built against me and compassed me with gall and travail.
3:6  He has set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
3:7  He has hedged me about that I cannot get out; he has made my chain heavy.
3:8  Even when I cried and shouted, he shut out my prayer.
3:9  He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he has 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 has made my ways crooked and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
3:12  He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.
3:13  He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
3:14  I was a derision to all my people and their song every day.
3:15  He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.
3:16  He has broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
3:17  My soul removed itself far from peace; I forgot about good.
3:18  And I said, My strength and my hope of the LORD is perished.
3:19  Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
3:20  My soul shall have them still in remembrance because it is humbled in me.
3:21  This shall go down into my heart; therefore I shall wait.
3:22  It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.
3:23  They are new every morning; great is thy faith.
3:24  The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will wait for him.
3:25  The LORD is good unto those that wait in him, to the soul that seeks him.
3:26  It is good to wait quietly in the salvation of the LORD.
3:27  It is good for the man if he bears the yoke from his youth.
3:28  He shall sit alone and keep silence because he has borne it upon him.
3:29  He shall put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
3:30  He shall turn his cheek unto him that smites him; he shall be filled with reproach.
3:31  For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
3:32  But though he causes grief, yet he will also have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
3:33  For he does not afflict nor grieve the sons of men from his heart.
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 does not approve.
3:37  Mem Who shall he be that saith that something comes which the Lord has not sent?
3:38  Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?
3:39  Why does the living man have pain, the man in his sins?
3:40  Let us search out our ways, and seek, 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 rebelled and been disloyal; therefore thou hast not forgiven.
3:43  Thou hast unfurled anger and persecuted us; thou hast slain, thou hast not forgiven.
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 abomination in the midst of the peoples.
3:46  All our enemies have opened their mouths upon us.
3:47  Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
3:48  My eyes stream with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3:49  My eyes run down, and cease not, for there is no relief,
3:50  Until the LORD looks down, and beholds from the heavens.
3:51  My eyes make my soul sad because of all the daughters of my city.
3:52  My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.
3:53  They bound up my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
3:54  Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am dead.
3:55  I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
3:56  Thou hast heard my voice; do not hide thine ear at my cry that I might breath.
3:57  Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou didst say, Fear not.
3:58  O Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
3:59  O LORD, thou hast seen where I was wrong; plead thou my cause.
3:60  Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
3:61  Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
3:62  The words of those that rose up against me, and their design 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 them in thy anger and cut them off from under the heavens, oh LORD.