3:32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
3:33 For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.
3:34 To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
3:35 to deny people their rights before the Most High,
3:36 to deprive them of justice – would not the Lord see such things?
3:37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
3:39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
3:40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.
3:41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
3:42 ‘We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
3:43 ‘You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
3:44 You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
3:45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
3:46 ‘All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
3:47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.’
3:48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
3:49 My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
3:50 until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.
3:51 What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
3:52 Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
3:53 They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
3:54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.
3:55 I called on your name, Lord, from the depths of the pit.
3:56 You heard my plea: ‘Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.’
3:57 You came near when I called you, and you said, ‘Do not fear.’
3:58 You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.
3:59 Lord, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
3:60 You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
3:61 Lord, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me –
3:62 what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
3:63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
3:64 Pay them back what they deserve, Lord, for what their hands have done.
3:65 Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
3:66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the Lord.
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