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1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;
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3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
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3 indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.
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4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
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5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
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6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
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7 He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
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7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.
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8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
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8 Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
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9 He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
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9 He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
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10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
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10 Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
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11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
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11 he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.
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12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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12 He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
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13 He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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13 He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
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14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
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14 I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
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15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
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15 He has filled me with bitter herbs and sated me with gall.
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16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
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16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.
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17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
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17 I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
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18 And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
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18 So I say, "My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD."
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19 Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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19 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
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20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
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20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
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21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
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21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
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22 [It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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22 Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
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23 They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
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23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
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24 Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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24 I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."
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25 Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
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25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
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26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
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26 it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
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27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.
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28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.
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28 Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him.
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29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
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29 Let him bury his face in the dust-- there may yet be hope.
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30 Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.
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30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.
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31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
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31 For men are not cast off by the Lord forever.
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32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
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32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
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33 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
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33 For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.
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34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
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34 To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
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35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
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35 to deny a man his rights before the Most High,
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36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
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36 to deprive a man of justice-- would not the Lord see such things?
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37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
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37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
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38 Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
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38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
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39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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39 Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins?
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40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
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40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
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41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
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41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
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42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
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42 "We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
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43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
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43 "You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
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44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
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44 You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
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45 Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
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45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
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46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
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46 "All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
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47 Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
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47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction."
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48 Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
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49 Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
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49 My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
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50 Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
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50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
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51 Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
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51 What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
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52 They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
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52 Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
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53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
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53 They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
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54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
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54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to be cut off.
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55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
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55 I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit.
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56 Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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56 You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief."
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57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.
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57 You came near when I called you, and you said, "Do not fear."
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58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
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58 O Lord, you took up my case; you redeemed my life.
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59 O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.
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59 You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
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60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
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60 You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
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61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
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61 O LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me--
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62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
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62 what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
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63 Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
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63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
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64 Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
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64 Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, for what their hands have done.
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65 Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.
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65 Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
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66 Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
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66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
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