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1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his fury,
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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 has led me and made me 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 Against me alone he turns his hand again and again, all 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 He has worn away my skin and flesh, he has 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 has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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6 He has made me live in darkness, like those who are long dead.
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6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
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7 He has walled me in, so I can't escape; he has weighed me down with chains.
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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 Even when I cry out, pleading for help, he shuts 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 has barred my way with blocks of stone, he has 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 lies in wait for me like a bear, like a lion in hiding.
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10 Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
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11 He has forced me aside and torn me to pieces, leaving me stunned.
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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 has bent his bow and used me as a target for his arrows.
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12 He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
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13 He has pierced my vital organs with shafts from his quiver.
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13 He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
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14 I'm a laughingstock to all my people, the butt of their taunts all day long.
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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 has filled me with bitterness, 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 has broken my teeth with gravel and pressed me down into 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 I have been so deprived of peace, I have so forgotten what happiness is,
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17 I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
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18 that I think, "My strength is gone, and so is my hope in ADONAI."
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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 my utter 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 They are always on my mind; this is why I am so depressed.
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20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
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21 But in my mind I keep returning to something, something that gives me hope -
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21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
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22 that the grace of ADONAI is not exhausted, that his compassion has not ended.
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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 [On the contrary,] they are new every morning! How great your faithfulness!
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23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
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24 "ADONAI is all I have," I say; "therefore I will put my 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 ADONAI is good to those waiting for him, to those who are seeking him out.
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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 to wait patiently for the saving help of ADONAI.
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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 to bear the yoke from 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 in silence when he has laid it on 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 submit absolutely; there may yet 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 offer his cheek to the one who strikes it, and receive his fill of insults.
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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 rejection by Adonai does not last forever.
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31 For men are not cast off by the Lord forever.
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32 He may cause grief, but he will take pity, in keeping with the greatness of his grace.
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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 does not arbitrarily torment or punish human beings.
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33 For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.
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34 When anyone tramples underfoot any of the prisoners of the land;
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34 To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
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35 when anyone deprives a person of justice, in defiance of the Most High;
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35 to deny a man his rights before the Most High,
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36 when someone is cheated of justice in court -does Adonai not take note of such things?
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36 to deprive a man of justice-- would not the Lord see such things?
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37 Who can say something and have it happen without Adonai's commanding it?
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37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
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38 Don't both bad things and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
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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 Why should anyone alive complain, even a strong man, about the punishment for 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 examine and test our ways and return to ADONAI.
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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 hearts and our hands to God in heaven and say,
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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, for our part, have transgressed and rebelled; you, for your part, have not forgiven.
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42 "We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
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43 "You have covered us with anger, pursued and slaughtered us without pity.
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43 "You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
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44 You have covered yourself with a cloud so thick 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 You have reduced us to rubbish and filth among the peoples.
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45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
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46 "All our adversaries open their mouths to jeer at us.
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46 "All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
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47 Panic and pitfall have come upon us, desolation and destruction.
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47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction."
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48 My eyes stream with rivers of water over 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 My eyes weep ceaselessly; there is no respite,
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49 My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
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50 until ADONAI looks down and sees from heaven.
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50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
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51 My eyes make me so upset at the fate of the women in 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 Those who are my enemies for no reason hunted me down like a bird.
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52 Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
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53 They forced me alive into a pit and threw stones on 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 Water rose above my head; I thought, "I am finished!"
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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 on your name, ADONAI, from the bottom of the pit.
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55 I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit.
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56 You heard my voice; don't close your ear at my sighs, at my cries.
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56 You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief."
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57 You came near when I called to you; you said, "Don't be afraid."
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57 You came near when I called you, and you said, "Do not fear."
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58 Adonai, you defended my cause; you redeemed my life.
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58 O Lord, you took up my case; you redeemed my life.
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59 ADONAI, you see how I have been wronged; give judgment in my favor!
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59 You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
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60 You have seen all their vindictiveness and all their plots 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 You have heard their taunts, ADONAI, and all their plots 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 whispered murmurings of my foes against me all day long.
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62 what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
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63 See how, whether they sit or stand, I am the butt of their taunts.
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63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
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64 Repay them, ADONAI, as their deeds deserve.
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64 Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, for what their hands have done.
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65 Give them hardheartedness as your curse on them.
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65 Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
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66 Pursue them in anger! Destroy them from under your heavens!
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66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
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| Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. (The Complete Jewish Bible Online) |
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