| 章 |
| 3:1 |
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;
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| 3:2 |
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
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| 3:3 |
surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.
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| 3:4 |
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away, and broken my bones;
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| 3:5 |
he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
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| 3:6 |
he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
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| 3:7 |
He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;he has put heavy chains on me;
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| 3:8 |
though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
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| 3:9 |
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
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| 3:10 |
He is to me like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding;
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| 3:11 |
he led me off my way and tore me to pieces;he has made me desolate;
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| 3:12 |
he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.
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| 3:13 |
He drove into my heart the arrows of his quiver;
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| 3:14 |
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the burden of their songs all day long.
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| 3:15 |
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
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| 3:16 |
He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
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| 3:17 |
my soul is bereft of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;
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| 3:18 |
so I say, 'Gone is my glory, and my expectation from the LORD.'
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| 3:19 |
Remember my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the gall!
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| 3:20 |
My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me.
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| 3:21 |
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
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| 3:22 |
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;
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| 3:23 |
they are new every morning;great is thy faithfulness.
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| 3:24 |
'The LORD is my portion,' says my soul, 'therefore I will hope in him.'
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| 3:25 |
The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
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| 3:26 |
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
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| 3:27 |
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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| 3:28 |
Let him sit alone in silence when he has laid it on him;
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| 3:29 |
let him put his mouth in the dust -- there may yet be hope;
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| 3:30 |
let him give his cheek to the smiter, and be filled with insults.
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| 3:31 |
For the Lord will not cast off for ever,
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| 3:32 |
but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
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| 3:33 |
for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
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| 3:34 |
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
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| 3:35 |
to turn aside the right of a man in the presence of the Most High,
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| 3:36 |
to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.
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| 3:37 |
Who has commanded and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
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| 3:38 |
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come?
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| 3:39 |
Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
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| 3:40 |
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD!
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| 3:41 |
Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
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| 3:42 |
'We have transgressed and rebelled, and thou hast not forgiven.
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| 3:43 |
'Thou hast wrapped thyself with anger and pursued us, slaying without pity;
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| 3:44 |
thou hast wrapped thyself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
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| 3:45 |
Thou hast made us offscouring and refuse among the peoples.
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| 3:46 |
'All our enemies rail against us;
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| 3:47 |
panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;
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| 3:48 |
my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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| 3:49 |
'My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,
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| 3:50 |
until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees;
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| 3:51 |
my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the maidens of my city.
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| 3:52 |
'I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;
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| 3:53 |
they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;
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| 3:54 |
water closed over my head;I said, I am lost.'
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| 3:55 |
'I called on thy name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit;
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| 3:56 |
thou didst hear my plea, Do not close thine ear to my cry for help!'
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| 3:57 |
Thou didst come near when I called on thee;thou didst say, Do not fear!'
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| 3:58 |
'Thou hast taken up my cause, O Lord, thou hast redeemed my life.
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| 3:59 |
Thou hast seen the wrong done to me, O LORD;judge thou my cause.
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| 3:60 |
Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their devices against me.
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| 3:61 |
'Thou hast heard their taunts, O LORD, all their devices against me.
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| 3:62 |
The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.
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| 3:63 |
Behold their sitting and their rising;I am the burden of their songs.
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| 3:64 |
'Thou wilt requite them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
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| 3:65 |
Thou wilt give them dullness of heart;thy curse will be on them.
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| 3:66 |
Thou wilt pursue them in anger and destroy them from under thy heavens, O LORD.'
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