| 章 |
| 3:1 |
I am one who has seen affliction under the rod of God's wrath;
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| 3:2 |
he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
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| 3:3 |
against me alone he turns his hand, again and again, all 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 sit 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 a bear lying in wait for me, 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 shot into my vitals the arrows of his quiver;
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| 3:14 |
I have become the laughingstock of all my people, the object of their taunt-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 all that I had hoped for from the LORD."
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| 3:19 |
The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and 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 your 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 one to bear the yoke in youth,
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| 3:28 |
to sit alone in silence when the Lord has imposed it,
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| 3:29 |
to put one's mouth to the dust (there may yet be hope),
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| 3:30 |
to give one's cheek to the smiter, and be filled with insults.
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| 3:31 |
For the Lord will not reject forever.
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| 3:32 |
Although he causes 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 anyone.
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| 3:34 |
When all the prisoners of the land are crushed under foot,
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| 3:35 |
when human rights are perverted in the presence of the Most High,
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| 3:36 |
when one's case is subverted-- does the Lord not see it?
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| 3:37 |
Who can command and have it done, if the Lord has not ordained it?
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| 3:38 |
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
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| 3:39 |
Why should any who draw breath complain about the punishment of their 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 as well as our hands to God in heaven.
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| 3:42 |
We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.
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| 3:43 |
You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;
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| 3:44 |
you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
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| 3:45 |
You have made us filth and rubbish among 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 come upon us, devastation and destruction.
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| 3:48 |
My eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction 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 young women in my city.
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| 3:52 |
Those who were my enemies without cause have hunted me like a bird;
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| 3:53 |
they flung me alive into a pit and hurled 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 your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit;
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| 3:56 |
you heard my plea, "Do not close your ear to my cry for help, but give me relief!"
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| 3:57 |
You came near when I called on you; you said, "Do not fear!"
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| 3:58 |
You have taken up my cause, O Lord, you have redeemed my life.
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| 3:59 |
You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
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| 3:60 |
You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
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| 3:61 |
You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me.
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| 3:62 |
The whispers and murmurs of my assailants are against me all day long.
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| 3:63 |
Whether they sit or rise-- see, I am the object of their taunt-songs.
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| 3:64 |
Pay them back for their deeds, O LORD, according to the work of their hands!
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| 3:65 |
Give them anguish of heart; your curse be on them!
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| 3:66 |
Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the LORD's heavens.
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