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1I am the man who has seen affliction[#Jer. 20:18]
under the rod of his wrath;
2he has driven and brought me
into darkness without any light;
3surely against me he turns his hand
again and again the whole day long.
4He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
he has broken my bones;
5he has besieged and enveloped me[#Job 19:12]
with bitterness and tribulation;
6he has made me dwell in darkness[#Ps. 143:3]
like the dead of long ago.
7He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;[#Job 19:8; #Ps. 88:8]
he has made my chains heavy;
8though I call and cry for help,[#Job 19:7; 30:20; Ps. 22:2]
he shuts out my prayer;
9he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;[#7]
he has made my paths crooked.
10He is a bear lying in wait for me,[#Hos. 13:8]
a lion in hiding;
11he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces;[#Jer. 18:15; #10]
he has made me desolate;
12he bent his bow and set me[#2:4; #Job 16:12]
as a target for his arrow.
13He drove into my kidneys
the arrows of his quiver;
14I have become the laughingstock of all peoples,[#Jer. 20:7]
the object of their taunts all day long.
15He has filled me with bitterness;[#Isa. 51:17, 21]
he has sated me with wormwood.
16He has made my teeth grind on gravel,[#Prov. 20:17]
and made me cower in ashes;
17my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness is;
18so I say, “My endurance has perished;[#Ps. 9:18]
so has my hope from the Lord .”
19Remember my affliction and my wanderings,[#1:9, 11, 20]
the wormwood and the gall!
20My soul continually remembers it
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 Syriac, Targum; Hebrew]
his mercies never come to an end;
23they are new every morning;[#Job 7:18]
great is your faithfulness.
24“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,[#Ps. 16:5; 73:26]
“therefore I will hope in him.”
25The Lord is good to those who wait for him,[#Ps. 130:6; Isa. 30:18]
to the soul who seeks him.
26It is good that one should wait quietly[#Ps. 130:5, 7; Mic. 7:7]
for the salvation of the Lord .
27It is good for a man that he bear[#Matt. 11:29]
the yoke in his youth.
28Let him sit alone in silence[#1:1; 2:10; Isa. 3:26]
when it is laid on him;
29let him put his mouth in the dust—[#Job 42:6]
there may yet be hope;
30let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,[#Isa. 50:6; Matt. 5:39]
and let him be filled with insults.
31For the Lord will not[#Ps. 103:9]
cast off forever,
32but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion[#1:5; #Ps. 103:8]
according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
33for he does not afflict from his heart[#Heb. 12:6, 10]
or grieve the children of men.
34To crush underfoot
all the prisoners of the earth,
35to deny a man justice[#Hab. 1:13]
in the presence of the Most High,
36to subvert a man in his lawsuit,
the Lord does not approve.
37Who has spoken and it came to pass,[#Ps. 33:9]
unless the Lord has commanded it?
38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High[#Isa. 45:7; Amos 3:6]
that good and bad come?
39Why should a living man complain,[#Prov. 19:3]
a man, about the punishment of his sins?
40Let us test and examine our ways,
and return to the Lord !
41Let us lift up our hearts and hands[#Ps. 25:1; 119:48]
to God in heaven:
42“We have transgressed and rebelled,[#Dan. 9:5; #Ps. 78:17]
and you have not forgiven.
43“You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
killing without pity;
44you have wrapped yourself with a cloud[#8; 2:1]
so that no prayer can pass through.
45You have made us scum and garbage[#1 Cor. 4:13]
among the peoples.
46“All our enemies[#2:16, 17]
open 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[#1:16; Jer. 13:17]
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49“My eyes will flow without ceasing,[#48]
without respite,
50until the Lord from heaven[#Ps. 14:2; Isa. 63:15]
looks down and sees;
51my eyes cause me grief
at the fate of all the daughters of my city.
52“I have been hunted like a bird[#4:18; #Ps. 11:1]
by those who were my enemies without cause;
53they flung me alive into the pit[#Jer. 37:16; 38:6, 9, 10]
and cast stones on me;
54water closed over my head;[#Ps. 69:2]
I said, ‘I am lost.’
55“I called on your name, O Lord ,[#Ps. 130:1]
from the depths of the pit;
56you heard my plea, ‘Do not close[#Ps. 130:2]
your ear to my cry for help!’
57You came near when I called on you;[#James 4:8]
you said, ‘Do not fear!’
58“You have taken up my cause, O Lord;[#Ps. 119:154; #1 Sam. 24:15]
you have redeemed my life.
59You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord ;[#Ps. 35:22, 23]
judge my cause.
60You have seen all their vengeance,
all their plots against me.
61“You have heard their taunts, O Lord ,[#5:1]
all their plots against me.
62The lips and thoughts of my assailants[#Ps. 18:39, 48]
are against me all the day long.
63Behold their sitting and their rising;[#Ps. 139:2]
I am the object of their taunts.
64“You will repay them, O Lord ,[#Jer. 11:20; #3:64 Or Repay them]
according to the work of their hands.
65You will give them dullness of heart;[#3:65 Or Give them]
your curse will be on them.
66You will pursue them in anger and destroy them[#3:66 Or Pursue them; #Deut. 25:19; Jer. 10:11]
from under your heavens, O Lord .”