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1I am one who has seen affliction[#Job 19.21; Jer 15.17, 18]
under the rod of God’s wrath;
2he has driven and brought me
into darkness without any light;
3against me alone he turns his hand,[#Isa 5.25]
again and again, all day long.
4He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;[#Job 16.8; Ps 51.8; Isa 38.13; Jer 50.17]
he has broken my bones;
5he has besieged and enveloped me
with bitterness and tribulation;
6he has made me sit in darkness[#Ps 88.5, 6]
like the dead of long ago.
7He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;[#Job 3.23; Jer 40.4]
he has put heavy chains on me;
8though I call and cry for help,[#Job 30.20; Ps 22.2]
he shuts out my prayer;
9he has blocked my ways with hewn stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
10He is a bear lying in wait for me,[#Job 10.16; Isa 38.13]
a lion in hiding;
11he led me off my way and tore me to pieces;
he has made me desolate;
12he bent his bow and set me[#Job 7.20; Ps 7.12, 13]
as a mark for his arrow.
13He shot into my vitals
the arrows of his quiver;
14I have become the laughingstock of all my people,[#Job 30.9; Jer 20.7]
the object of their taunt songs all day long.
15He has filled me with bitterness;
he has sated me with wormwood.
16He has made my teeth grind on gravel;
he has made me cower in ashes;
17my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness is;
18so I say, “Gone is my glory
and all that I had hoped for from the Lord .”
19The thought of my affliction and my homelessness[#Jer 9.15]
is wormwood and gall!
20My soul continually thinks of it[#Ps 42.5, 6, 11]
and is bowed down within me.
21But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
22The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,[#Mal 3.6; #3.22 Syr Tg: Heb , we are not cut off]
his mercies never come to an end;
23they are new every morning;[#Zeph 3.5]
great is your faithfulness.
24“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,[#Ps 16.5; 33.18]
“therefore I will hope in him.”
25The Lord is good to those who wait for him,[#Isa 25.9; 26.9; 30.18]
to the soul that seeks him.
26It is good that one should wait quietly[#Ps 37.7; 40.1; Isa 30.15]
for the salvation of the Lord .
27It is good for one to bear[#Ps 94.12]
the yoke in youth,
28to sit alone in silence[#Jer 15.17]
when the Lord has imposed it,
29to put one’s mouth to the dust
(there may yet be hope),
30to give one’s cheek to the smiter[#Isa 50.6; Mt 5.39]
and be filled with insults.
31For the Lord will not[#Ps 94.14]
reject forever.
32Although he causes grief, he will have compassion[#Ps 78.38; Hos 11.8]
according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
33for he does not willingly afflict[#Ezek 33.11; Heb 12.10]
or grieve anyone.
34When all the prisoners of the land
are crushed under foot,
35when justice is perverted[#Ps 140.12]
in the presence of the Most High,
36when one’s case is subverted—[#Hab 1.13]
does the Lord not see it?
37Who can command and have it done,[#Ps 33.9]
if the Lord has not ordained it?
38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High[#Job 2.10; Isa 45.7]
that evil and good come?
39Why should any who draw breath complain[#Mic 7.9; Heb 12.5, 6]
about the punishment of their sins?
40Let us test and examine our ways[#Ps 119.59; 2 Cor 13.5]
and return to the Lord .
41Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands[#Ps 25.1; 28.2]
to God in heaven.
42We have transgressed and rebelled,[#Jer 5.7, 9; Dan 9.5]
and you have not forgiven.
43You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,[#Ps 83.15; Lam 2.21]
killing without pity;
44you have wrapped yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can pass through.
45You have made us filth and rubbish[#1 Cor 4.13]
among the peoples.
46All our enemies[#Lam 2.16]
have opened their mouths against us;
47panic and pitfall have come upon us,[#Isa 24.17; Jer 48.43]
devastation and destruction.
48My eyes flow with rivers of tears
because of the destruction of my people.
49My eyes will flow without ceasing,[#Ps 77.2]
without respite,
50until the Lord from heaven[#Isa 63.15]
looks down and sees.
51My eyes cause me grief
at the fate of all the young women in my city.
52Those who were my enemies without cause[#Ps 35.7]
have hunted me like a bird;
53they flung me alive into a pit[#Jer 37.16]
and hurled stones on me;
54water closed over my head;[#Ps 69.2; Isa 38.10]
I said, “I am lost.”
55I called on your name, O Lord ,[#Jon 2.2]
from the depths of the pit;
56you heard my plea, “Do not close your ear[#Ps 116.1, 2]
to my cry for help, but give me relief!”
57You came near when I called on you;[#Ps 145.18; Isa 41.10, 14]
you said, “Do not fear!”
58You have taken up my cause, O Lord;[#Ps 71.23; Jer 51.36]
you have redeemed my life.
59You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord ;
judge my cause.
60You have seen all their malice,[#Jer 11.19, 20; 18.18]
all their plots against me.
61You have heard their taunts, O Lord ,
all their plots against me.
62The whispers and murmurs of my assailants
are against me all day long.
63Whether they sit or rise—see,
I am the object of their taunt songs.
64Pay them back for their deeds, O Lord ,
according to the work of their hands!
65Give them anguish of heart;
your curse be on them!
66Pursue them in anger and destroy them[#Ps 8.3]
from under the Lord ’s heavens.