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Chapter
3
- 3:1
- I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his
wrath.
- 3:2
- He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into
light.
- 3:3
- Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against
me all the day.
- 3:4
- My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my
bones.
- 3:5
- He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and
travail.
- 3:6
- He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
- 3:7
- He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made
my chain heavy.
- 3:8
- Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
- 3:9
- He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my
paths crooked.
- 3:10
- He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in
secret places.
- 3:11
- He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he
hath made me desolate.
- 3:12
- He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- 3:13
- He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my
reins.
- 3:14
- I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the
day.
- 3:15
- He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken
with wormwood.
- 3:16
- He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath
covered me with ashes.
- 3:17
- And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat
prosperity.
- 3:18
- And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the
LORD:
- 3:19
- Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and
the gall.
- 3:20
- My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in
me.
- 3:21
- This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
- 3:22
- It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because
his compassions fail not.
- 3:23
- They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
- 3:24
- The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope
in him.
- 3:25
- The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul
that seeketh him.
- 3:26
- It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for
the salvation of the LORD.
- 3:27
- It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
- 3:28
- He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne
it upon him.
- 3:29
- He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
- 3:30
- He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled
full with reproach.
- 3:31
- For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
- 3:32
- But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according
to the multitude of his mercies.
- 3:33
- For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children
of men.
- 3:34
- To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
- 3:35
- To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most
High,
- 3:36
- To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
- 3:37
- Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord
commandeth it not?
- 3:38
- Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and
good?
- 3:39
- Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment
of his sins?
- 3:40
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
- 3:41
- Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
- 3:42
- We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
- 3:43
- Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast
slain, thou hast not pitied.
- 3:44
- Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should
not pass through.
- 3:45
- Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst
of the people.
- 3:46
- All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
- 3:47
- Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
- 3:48
- Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction
of the daughter of my people.
- 3:49
- Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.
- 3:50
- Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
- 3:51
- Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters
of my city.
- 3:52
- Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
- 3:53
- They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone
upon me.
- 3:54
- Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
- 3:55
- I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
- 3:56
- Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing,
at my cry.
- 3:57
- Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou
saidst, Fear not.
- 3:58
- O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast
redeemed my life.
- 3:59
- O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
- 3:60
- Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations
against me.
- 3:61
- Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations
against me;
- 3:62
- The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device
against me all the day.
- 3:63
- Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their
musick.
- 3:64
- Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work
of their hands.
- 3:65
- Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
- 3:66
- Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens
of the LORD.
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