| 章 |
| 3:1 |
I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.
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| 3:2 |
He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
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| 3:3 |
Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.
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| 3:4 |
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.
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| 3:5 |
He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
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| 3:6 |
In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.
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| 3:7 |
He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.
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| 3:8 |
Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
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| 3:9 |
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; 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 secret places.
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| 3:11 |
He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
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| 3:12 |
He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.
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| 3:13 |
He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.
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| 3:14 |
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.
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| 3:15 |
He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.
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| 3:16 |
He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
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| 3:17 |
My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.
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| 3:18 |
So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the Lord."
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| 3:19 |
Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
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| 3:20 |
Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me.
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| 3:21 |
This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
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| 3:22 |
The Lord's lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.
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| 3:23 |
They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
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| 3:24 |
"The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I have hope in Him."
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| 3:25 |
The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.
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| 3:26 |
It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the Lord.
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| 3:27 |
It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.
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| 3:28 |
Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him.
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| 3:29 |
Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.
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| 3:30 |
Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.
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| 3:31 |
For the Lord will not reject forever,
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| 3:32 |
For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.
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| 3:33 |
For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men.
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| 3:34 |
To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,
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| 3:35 |
To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High,
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| 3:36 |
To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve.
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| 3:37 |
Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it?
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| 3:38 |
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth?
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| 3:39 |
Why should any living mortal, or any man, Offer complaint in view of his sins?
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| 3:40 |
Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the Lord.
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| 3:41 |
We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven;
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| 3:42 |
We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned.
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| 3:43 |
You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and have not spared.
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| 3:44 |
You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.
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| 3:45 |
You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.
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| 3:46 |
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
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| 3:47 |
Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;
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| 3:48 |
My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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| 3:49 |
My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping,
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| 3:50 |
Until the Lord looks down And sees from heaven.
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| 3:51 |
My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.
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| 3:52 |
My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird;
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| 3:53 |
They have silenced me in the pit And have placed a stone on me.
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| 3:54 |
Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"
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| 3:55 |
I called on Your name, O Lord, Out of the lowest pit.
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| 3:56 |
You have heard my voice, "Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help."
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| 3:57 |
You drew near when I called on You; You said, "Do not fear!"
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| 3:58 |
O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life.
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| 3:59 |
O Lord, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.
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| 3:60 |
You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
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| 3:61 |
You have heard their reproach, O Lord, All their schemes against me.
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| 3:62 |
The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long.
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| 3:63 |
Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
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| 3:64 |
You will recompense them, O Lord, According to the work of their hands.
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| 3:65 |
You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them.
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| 3:66 |
You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the Lord!
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