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 \v 1 I am a man who has seen misery under the rod of Yahweh's fury.
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-\v 2 He has driven me away and caused me to walk in darkness rather than light.
+\v 2 He drove me away and caused me to walk in darkness rather than light.
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-\v 3 Surely he has turned against me; he turns his hand against me all the day.
+\v 3 Surely he turned his hand against me again and again, the whole day long.  
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-\v 4 He has worn out my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones.
+\v 4 He made my flesh and my skin waste away; he broke my bones.
 
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-\v 5 He has built up siege works against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
+\v 5 He built up siege works against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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-\v 6 He has made me to live in dark places, like those long dead.
+\v 6 He made me live in dark places, like those who died long ago.
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-\v 7 He has built a wall around me, and I cannot escape. He has made my shackles heavy.
+\v 7 He built a wall around me and I cannot escape. He made my chains heavy
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-\v 8 Though I call out and scream for help, he shuts out my prayers.
+\v 8 and though I call out and cry for help, he shut out my prayer.
 
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-\v 9 He has blocked my path with walls of hewn stone; every way I take is crooked.
+\v 9 He blocked my path with a wall of hewn stone; he made my paths crooked.
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-\v 10 He is a bear waiting to ambush me, a lion in hiding.
+\v 10 He is like a bear waiting to ambush me, a lion in hiding;
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-\v 11 He has turned aside my paths. He tears me apart and makes me desolate.
+\v 11 he turned aside my paths, he has made be desolate.
 
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-\v 12 He has bent his bow and marked me as a target for an arrow.
+\v 12 He bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
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-\v 13 He has sent the arrows of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
+\v 13 He pieced my kidneys with the arrows of his quiver.
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-\v 14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people, the subject of their taunting song day by day.
+\v 14 I became a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunting all day long. 
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-\v 15 He has filled me with bitterness and forced me to drink wormwood.
+\v 15 He filled me with bitterness and forced me to drink wormwood.
 
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-\v 16 He has crushed my teeth with gravel; he has pushed me down into the dust. 
+\v 16 He crushed my teeth with gravel; he has pushed me down into the dust. 
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-\v 17 You have removed peace from my life; I no longer remember any happiness.
+\v 17 My soul is deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is. 
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-\v 18 So I said, "My endurance has perished, and my hope in Yahweh is gone."
+\v 18 So I say, "My endurance has perished and so has my hope in Yahweh."
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-\v 19 I call to mind my affliction and my straying, the wormwood and bitterness.
+\v 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and bitterness.
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-\v 20 I certainly call it to mind, and I bow down within myself in despair.
+\v 20 I continually remember it and I am bowed down within me.
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-\v 21 But I call this to mind, and this is why I have hope:
+\v 21 But I call this to mind and therefore I have hope:
 
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-\v 22 It is by the covenant faithfulness of Yahweh that we are not destroyed, for his merciful actions have not come to an end.
+\v 22 The steadfast love of Yahweh never ceases and his compassions never end,
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-\v 23 His merciful actions toward us are new every morning. Your faithfulness is great!
+\v 23 they are new every morning; your faithfulness is great.
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-\v 24 "Yahweh is my inheritance," I have said to myself, so I will hope in him.
+\v 24 "Yahweh is my inheritance," I said, therefore I will hope in him.
 
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-\v 25 Yahweh is good to the one who waits for him, to the life that seeks him.
+\v 25 Yahweh is good to those who waits for him, to the one who seeks him.
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-\v 26 It is good to wait in silence for the salvation of Yahweh.
+\v 26 It is good to wait silently for the salvation of Yahweh.
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 \v 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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-\v 28 Let him sit alone in silence, because Yahweh has laid it upon him.
+\v 28 Let him sit alone in silence, when it is laid upon him.
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-\v 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, and perhaps there may be hope.
+\v 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust—there may yet be hope.
 
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-\v 30 Let him give his cheek to the one striking him. Let him be filled full with disgrace,
+\v 30 Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him, and let him be filled full with disgrace.
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-\v 31 for the Lord will not reject him forever!
+\v 31 For the Lord will not reject us forever,
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-\v 32 For though he brings grief, he also shows compassion that comes out of the greatness of his covenant faithfulness.
+\v 32 but though he causes grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
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-\v 33 For he does not oppress from his heart, or torment the sons of men.
+\v 33 For he does not afflict from his heart or torment the children of mankind.
 
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-\v 34 To crush all the captives on earth under his foot,
+\v 34 To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,
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-\v 35 to turn aside the justice of men before the face of the Most High,
+\v 35 to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High,
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-\v 36 to suppress a person in his cause—does not the Lord see?
+\v 36 to deny justice to a person—the Lord would not approve such things!
 
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-\v 37 Who is it that speaks and it happens when the Lord has not commanded it?
+\v 37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord decreed it?
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-\v 38 Do not both calamity and success come out of the mouth of the Most High?
+\v 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and the good come? 
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 \v 39 How can any person alive complain? How can any man complain about the punishment for his sins?
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