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205 lines
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The Prophet's Anguish and Hope
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# Chapter 3
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1. I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
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2. He has led me and made me walk
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In darkness and not in light.
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3. Surely He has turned His hand against me
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Time and time again throughout the day.
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4. He has aged my flesh and my skin,
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And broken my bones.
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5. He has besieged me
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And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.
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6. He has set me in dark places
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Like the dead of long ago.
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7. He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
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He has made my chain heavy.
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8. Even when I cry and shout,
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He shuts out my prayer.
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9. He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
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He has made my paths crooked.
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10. He has been to me a bear lying in wait,
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Like a lion in ambush.
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11. He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces;
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He has made me desolate.
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12. He has bent His bow
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And set me up as a target for the arrow.
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13. He has caused the arrows of His quiver
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To pierce my loins.
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14. I have become the ridicule of all my people--
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Their taunting song all the day.
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15. He has filled me with bitterness,
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He has made me drink wormwood.
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16. He has also broken my teeth with gravel,
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And covered me with ashes.
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17. You have moved my soul far from peace;
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I have forgotten prosperity.
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18. And I said, "My strength and my hope
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Have perished from the Lord."
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19. Remember my affliction and roaming,
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The wormwood and the gall.
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20. My soul still remembers
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And sinks within me.
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21. This I recall to my mind,
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Therefore I have hope.
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22. Through the Lord's mercies 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 Your faithfulness.
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24. "The Lord is my portion," says my soul,
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"Therefore I hope in Him!"
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25. The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
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To the soul who seeks Him.
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26. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly
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For the salvation of the Lord.
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27. It is good for a man to bear
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The yoke in his youth.
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28. Let him sit alone and keep silent,
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Because God has laid it on him;
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29. Let him put his mouth in the dust--
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There may yet be hope.
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30. Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him,
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And be full of reproach.
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31. For the Lord will not cast off forever.
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32. Though He causes grief,
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Yet He will show compassion
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According to the multitude of His mercies.
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33. For He does not afflict willingly,
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Nor grieve the children of men.
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34. To crush under one's feet
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All the prisoners of the earth,
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35. To turn aside the justice due a man
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Before the face of the Most High,
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36. Or subvert a man in his cause--
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The Lord does not approve.
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37. Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass,
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When the Lord has not commanded it?
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38. Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
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That woe and well-being proceed?
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39. Why should a living man complain,
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A man for the punishment of his sins?
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40. Let us search out and examine our ways,
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And turn back to the Lord;
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41. Let us lift our hearts and hands
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To God in heaven.
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42. We have transgressed and rebelled;
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You have not pardoned.
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43. You have covered Yourself with anger
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And pursued us;
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You have slain and not pitied.
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44. You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
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That prayer should not pass through.
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45. You have made us an offscouring and refuse
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In the midst of the peoples.
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46. All our enemies
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Have opened their mouths against us.
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47. Fear and a snare have come upon us,
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Desolation and destruction.
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48. My eyes overflow with rivers of water
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For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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49. My eyes flow and do not cease,
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Without interruption,
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50. Till the Lord from heaven
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Looks down and sees.
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51. My eyes bring suffering to my soul
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Because of all the daughters of my city.
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52. My enemies without cause
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Hunted me down like a bird.
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53. They silenced my life in the pit
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And threw stones at me.
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54. The waters flowed over my head;
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I said, "I am cut off!"
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55. I called on Your name, O Lord,
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From the lowest pit.
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56. You have heard my voice:
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"Do not hide Your ear
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From my sighing, from my cry for help."
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57. You drew near on the day I called on You,
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And said, "Do not fear!"
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58. O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul;
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You have redeemed my life.
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59. O Lord, You have seen how I am wronged;
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Judge my case.
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60. You have seen all their vengeance,
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All their schemes against me.
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61. You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
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All their schemes against me,
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62. The lips of my enemies
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And their whispering against me all the day.
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63. Look at their sitting down and their rising up;
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I am their taunting song.
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64. Repay them, O Lord,
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According to the work of their hands.
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65. Give them a veiled heart;
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Your curse be upon them!
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66. In Your anger,
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Pursue and destroy them
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From under the heavens of the Lord.
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