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\c 3
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\v 1 I, the one who am writing this, am a man whom Yahweh made to suffer,
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\q2 because he was angry.
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\q1
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\v 2 It was as though he caused me to walk in a very dark place
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\q2 without any light at all.
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\v 3 He has punished me many times,
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\q2 many times during each day.
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\b
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\v 4 He has caused my skin and my flesh to become old.
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\q2 He has broken my bones.
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\q1
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\v 5 He has surrounded me with things
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\q2 that make me suffer very bitterly.
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\v 6 It is as though he has buried me in a dark place
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\q2 like those who have been dead for a long time.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 7 It is as though he has built a prison wall around me,
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\q2 and fastened me with heavy chains, so I cannot escape.
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\q1
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\v 8 Although I call out and cry out for him to help me,
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\q2 he does not pay attention to me.
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\q1
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\v 9 It is as though he has blocked my path with a high stone wall
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\q2 and has caused me to wander everywhere to try to get out.
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\b
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\v 10 He has waited to attack me
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\q2 like a bear or a lion hides and waits to attack a man.
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\v 11 It is as though a bear has dragged me off the path and mauled me,
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\q2 and left me alone without help.
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\v 12 It is as though he strung his bow and made me the target
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\q2 to shoot at with his arrows.
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\b
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\v 13 It is as though he shot his arrows
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\q2 deep into my body.
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\v 14 All my relatives laugh at me;
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\q2 all during each day they sing songs that make fun of me.
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\q1
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\v 15 Yahweh has made me suffer greatly,
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\q2 like someone suffers after drinking something very bitter.
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\b
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\v 16 It is as though he has caused me to chew gravel that broke my teeth;
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\q2 it is as though he has trampled me in the ground.
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\v 17 Things no longer go well for me;
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\q2 I no longer remember being prosperous.
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\v 18 I continued to say to myself, "I not strong enough to bear any more hardships.
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\q2 I no longer expect to that Yahweh will rescue me."
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\b
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\v 19 When I think about how I suffer and how I wander far from home,
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\q2 it is like drinking a very bitter liquid.
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\v 20 I will never forget this time
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\q2 when I feel very depressed.
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\v 21 However, I confidently expect Yahweh to do good things for me again,
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\q2 and this I know is true.
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\v 22 Yahweh never stops faithfully loving us, and because of his love, we are not destroyed.
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\q2 He never stops acting kindly toward us.
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\v 23 Every morning he acts mercifully toward us again.
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\q2 He is the one in whom we can always trust.
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\v 24 So I sincerely say to myself, "Yahweh gives me what I need!"
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\q2 Because I believe this, I will confidently wait for him to do good things for me.
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\b
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\v 25 Yahweh is good to all those who depend on him,
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\q2 to those who seek him to help them.
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\v 26 So it is good for us to wait quietly
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\q2 for Yahweh to save us.
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\v 27 And it is good for us to suffer patiently
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\q2 while we are young.
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\b
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\v 28 Those who seek him to help them should sit by themselves and not complain,
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\q2 because they know that it is Yahweh who has allowed them to suffer.
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\v 29 They should lie in the dirt, with their faces on the ground,
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\q2 because they can still hope that Yahweh will help them.
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\v 30 If someone strikes us on one cheek,
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\q2 we should turn the other cheek toward that person in order that he may strike it, too,
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\q2 and accept it when others insult us.
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\b
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\v 31 Yahweh does not abandon us, his people, forever.
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\v 32 Sometimes he causes us to suffer,
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\q2 but he also acts kindly toward us
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\q1 because he continually and faithfully loves us.
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\v 33 And he does not take pleasure when he causes people to suffer
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\q2 or be sad.
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\v 34 If people mistreat and oppress all the prisoners,
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\v 35 or if they rebel against God
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\q2 by refusing to do for others what is right,
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\v 36 or if they cause judges to decide matters unjustly,
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\q2 Yahweh certainly sees all these things.
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\b
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\v 37 No one can make something happen
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\q2 unless Yahweh has already decided that it should happen.
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\v 38 God in heaven is the one who commands that disasters should happen,
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\q2 and he also causes good things to happen.
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\v 39 So it is certainly not right for us, who are only people on earth, to complain
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\q2 when he punishes us for the sins that we have committed.
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\b
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\v 40 Instead, we should think carefully about how we behave;
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\q2 we should turn back to Yahweh.
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\v 41 We should pray with all our inner beings and lift up our arms
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\q2 toward God in heaven, and say,
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\q1
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\v 42 "We have sinned and rebelled against you,
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\q2 and you have not forgiven us.
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\v 43 You have been very angry and chased after us;
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\q2 you have slaughtered us without pitying us.
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\v 44 You have hidden yourself away, as if you were in a cloud,
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\q2 so that you will not hear us when we pray.
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\v 45 You have made us go among the foreign peoples,
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\q2 and they think we are only garbage.
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\b
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\v 46 All our enemies have spoken things to insult us.
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\v 47 We are constantly afraid that people will trap us,
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\q2 because we have experienced so many disasters and so much ruin."
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\v 48 Many tears flow from my eyes
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\q2 because my people have been destroyed.
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\v 49 My tears continually flow;
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\q2 they will not stop
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\v 50 until Yahweh looks down from heaven and sees us.
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\v 51 I am very grieved
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\q2 because of what has happened to the women of my city.
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\b
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\v 52 My enemies hunted for me
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\q2 like people hunt for a bird to kill it
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\q1 even though there was no reason for them to do that.
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\v 53 They threw me into a pit to kill me,
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\q2 and placed a heavy stone over the top of it.
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\v 54 The water in the pit rose above my head,
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\q2 and I said to myself, "I am about to die!"
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\b
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\v 55 But from the bottom of the pit I cried out to you,
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\q2 "Yahweh, help me!"
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\v 56 I pleaded with you,
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\q2 "Do not refuse to hear me when I cry out to you!"
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\v 57 Then you answered me
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\q2 and said, "Do not be afraid!"
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\b
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\v 58 Yahweh, you argued for me when people wanted to condemn me and execute me;
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\q2 you did not allow me to die.
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\v 59 Now, Yahweh, you have seen the evil things that my enemies have done to me,
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\q2 so judge my case and show that I have done nothing wrong.
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\v 60 You know the evil things
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\q2 that they are planning to do to me.
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\v 61 Yahweh, you have heard them insult me;
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\q2 you have heard what they plan to do to me.
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\v 62 Every day they whisper and mutter things about me,
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\q2 all during the day.
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\v 63 Look at them! Whatever they are doing at the moment,
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\q2 they make fun of me by the songs that they sing.
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\b
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\v 64 Yahweh, give them what they deserve!
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\q2 Pay them back for what they have done to me!
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\v 65 Curse them
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\q2 and make them very, very afraid of you.
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\v 66 Because you are angry with them, pursue them and get rid of them,
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\q2 until none of them remain on the earth.
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