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3:3
Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
3:4
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
3:5
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
3:6
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
3:7
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
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Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
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He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
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He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
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He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
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He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
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He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
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I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
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He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
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He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
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My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
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So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
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Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
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Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
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Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
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Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
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They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
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“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
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The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
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It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
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It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
3:28
Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.
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Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.
3:30
Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.