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3:1 “I am the man who has experienced suffering under the rod of Yahweh’s fury.
3:2 Yahweh has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
3:3 He beat me again and again all day long.
3:4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away. He has broken my bones.
3:5 He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
3:6 He has made me live in darkness, like those who died a long time ago.
3:7 He has blocked me so that I can’t get out. He has put heavy chains on me.
3:8 Even when I cry and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
3:9 He has blocked my way with cut stones and made my paths crooked.
3:10 He is like a bear waiting to ambush me, like a lion in hiding.
3:11 He has forced me off the road I was taking, torn me to pieces, and left me with nothing.
3:12 He has drawn his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
3:13 He has shot the arrows from his quiver into my heart.
3:14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people. All day long they make fun of me with their songs.
3:15 He has filled me with bitterness. He has made me drink wormwood.
3:16 He has ground my teeth with gravel. He has trampled me into the dust.
3:17 “My soul has been kept from enjoying peace. I have forgotten what happiness is.
3:18 I said, ‘I’ve lost my strength to live and my hope in the Lord.’
3:19 Remember my suffering and my aimless wandering, the wormwood and poison.
3:20 My soul continues to remember these things and is so discouraged.
3:21 “The reason I can still find hope is that I keep this one thing in mind:
3:22 the Lord’s mercy. We were not completely wiped out. His compassion is never limited.
3:23 It is new every morning. His faithfulness is great.
3:24 My soul can say, ‘The Lord is my lot in life. That is why I find hope in him.’
3:25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to anyone who seeks help from him.
3:26 “It is good to continue to hope and wait silently for the Lord to save us.
3:27 It is good for people to endure burdens when they’re young.
3:28 They should sit alone and remain silent because Yahweh has laid these burdens on them.
3:29 They should put their mouths in the dust. Maybe a reason to hope exists.
3:30 They should turn their cheeks to the one who strikes them and take their fill of insults.
3:31 “Adonay will not reject such people forever.
3:32 Even if he makes us suffer, he will have compassion in keeping with the richness of his mercy.
3:33 He does not willingly bring suffering or grief to anyone,
3:34 crush any prisoner on earth underfoot,
3:35 deny people their rights in the presence of Elyon,
3:36 or deprive people of justice in court. Adonay isn’t happy to see these things.
3:37 Who was it who spoke and it came into being? It was Adonay who gave the order.
3:38 Both good and bad come from the mouth of the Most High God.
3:39 “Why should any living mortal (any person) complain about being punished for sin?
3:40 Let us look closely at our ways and examine them and then return to Yahweh.
3:41 Let us raise our hearts and hands to El in heaven.
3:42 “We have been disobedient and rebellious. You haven’t forgiven us.
3:43 You covered yourself with anger and pursued us. You killed without pity.
3:44 You covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer could get through it.
3:45 You made us the scum and trash of the nations.
3:46 All our enemies gawk at us.
3:47 Panic and pitfalls have found us, so have devastation and destruction.
3:48 “Streams of tears run down from my eyes over the ruin of my dear people.
3:49 My eyes will keep flowing without stopping for a moment
3:50 until Yahweh looks down from heaven and sees.
3:51 What I see with my eyes disturbs me deeply because of all the young women in my city.
3:52 “Those who were my enemies for no reason hunted me like a bird.
3:53 They threw me alive into a pit and threw rocks at me.
3:54 Water flowed over my head. I thought I was finished.
3:55 “I call your name from the deepest pit, O Yahweh.
3:56 Listen to my cry for help. Don’t close your ears when I cry out for relief.
3:57 Be close at hand when I call to you. You told me not to be afraid.
3:58 Plead my case for me, O Adonay. Reclaim my life.
3:59 Look at the wrong that has been done to me, O Yahweh. Give me a fair verdict.
3:60 Look at all their malice, all their plots against me.
3:61 Listen to their insults, all their plots against me.
3:62 The words and thoughts of those who attack me are directed against me all day long.
3:63 Look at them! Whether they are sitting or standing, they make fun of me in their songs.
3:64 Pay them back, O Yahweh, for what they deserve, for what their own hands have done.
3:65 Make them stubborn. Let your curse be on them.
3:66 Pursue them in anger, and wipe them out from under Yahweh’s heaven.”
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