1ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.

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Psalms 88:7, Psalms 88:7, Job 19:21, Psalms 88:15, Psalms 88:16

2ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.

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Job 30:26, Isaiah 59:9, Job 30:26, Isaiah 59:9, Amos 5:18

3ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.

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Isaiah 5:25, Deuteronomy 29:20, Job 31:21, Isaiah 63:10, Isaiah 1:25

4BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.

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Isaiah 38:13, Psalms 51:8, Isaiah 38:13, Psalms 51:8, Jeremiah 50:17

5BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.

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Lamentations 3:19, Lamentations 3:19, Jeremiah 23:15, Jeremiah 23:15, Job 19:8

6BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.

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Psalms 143:3, Psalms 88:5, Psalms 88:6, Psalms 143:3, Psalms 88:5

7GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.

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Job 3:23, Job 19:8, Job 3:23, Job 19:8, Psalms 88:8

8GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.

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Job 30:20, Psalms 22:2, Job 30:20, Psalms 22:2, Job 19:7

9GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.

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Isaiah 63:17, Isaiah 63:17, Lamentations 3:11, Hosea 2:6, Isaiah 30:28

10DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.

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Hosea 6:1, Amos 5:18, Amos 5:20, Psalms 10:9, Hosea 13:7

11DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation.

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Hosea 6:1, Hosea 6:1, Job 16:12, Job 16:13, Job 16:12

12DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.

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Psalms 38:2, Psalms 38:2, Job 7:20, Job 7:20, Psalms 7:12

13HE. He has shot into my kidneys the daughters of his quiver.

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Job 6:4, Job 6:4, Deuteronomy 32:23, Job 41:28, Deuteronomy 32:23

14HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day.

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Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 20:7, Lamentations 3:63, Lamentations 3:63, Psalms 22:6

15HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood.

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Jeremiah 9:15, Jeremiah 9:15, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22, Lamentations 3:19

16VAU. And he has broken each one of my teeth; he has fed me with ashes.

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Proverbs 20:17, Proverbs 20:17, Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 6:26, Psalms 58:6

17VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good.

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Isaiah 59:11, Isaiah 59:11, Psalms 119:155, Lamentations 1:16, Isaiah 54:10

18VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.”

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Job 17:15, Job 17:15, 1 Samuel 27:1, Job 6:11, Psalms 31:22

19ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall.

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Lamentations 3:15, Lamentations 3:15, Lamentations 3:5, Lamentations 3:5, Nehemiah 9:32

20ZAIN. I will call to mind the past, and my soul shall languish within me.

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Psalms 42:11, Psalms 42:5, Psalms 42:6, Psalms 42:11, Psalms 42:5

21ZAIN. These recollections are in my heart; therefore, I shall hope.

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Habakkuk 2:3, Habakkuk 2:3, Psalms 130:7, Psalms 130:7, Psalms 77:7

22HETH. By the mercies of the Lord, we are not consumed. For his compassion has not passed away.

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Psalms 86:15, Psalms 86:15, Luke 1:50, Luke 1:50, Nehemiah 9:31

23HETH. I know it at first light; great is your faithfulness.

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Hebrews 10:23, Hebrews 10:23, Psalms 30:5, Psalms 30:5, Isaiah 33:2

24HETH. “The Lord is my portion,” said my soul. Because of this, I will wait for him.

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Psalms 73:26, Psalms 73:26, Psalms 16:5, Psalms 16:5, Psalms 142:5

25TETH. The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him.

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Micah 7:7, Micah 7:8, Micah 7:7, Micah 7:8, Isaiah 40:31

26TETH. It is good to stand ready in silence for the salvation of God.

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Psalms 37:7, Psalms 37:7, Psalms 37:34, Psalms 37:34, Psalms 130:5

27TETH. It is good for a man, when he has carried the yoke from his youth.

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Ecclesiastes 12:1, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Matthew 11:29, Matthew 11:30, Matthew 11:29

28JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself.

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Jeremiah 15:17, Jeremiah 15:17, Lamentations 2:10, Lamentations 2:10, Psalms 102:7

29JOD. He shall place his mouth in the dirt, if perhaps there may be hope.

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Job 40:4, Job 40:4, Luke 18:13, Job 42:5, Job 42:6

30JOD. He shall give his cheek to those who strike him; he shall be saturated with reproaches.

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Isaiah 50:6, Job 16:10, Isaiah 50:6, Job 16:10, Matthew 5:39

31CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever.

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Psalms 94:14, Psalms 94:14, Psalms 77:7, Psalms 77:7, Psalms 103:8

32CAPH. For, if he has cast down, he will also have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.

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Psalms 78:38, Psalms 78:38, Psalms 30:5, Psalms 103:11, Psalms 30:5

33CAPH. For he has not humiliated from his heart, nor has he thrown aside the sons of men,

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Ezekiel 33:11, Ezekiel 33:11, Ezekiel 18:32, Ezekiel 18:32, Hebrews 12:9

34LAMED. as if to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

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Zechariah 9:11, Zechariah 9:12, Zechariah 9:11, Zechariah 9:12, Isaiah 51:22

35LAMED. as if to turn aside the judgment of a man in the sight of the presence of the Most High,

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36LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this.

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Habakkuk 1:13, Isaiah 59:15, Habakkuk 1:13, Isaiah 59:15, Jeremiah 22:3

37MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?

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Psalms 33:9, Psalms 33:11, Psalms 33:9, Psalms 33:11, Isaiah 46:10

38MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?

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Isaiah 45:7, Isaiah 45:7, Amos 3:6, Amos 3:6, Job 2:10

39MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?

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Proverbs 19:3, Micah 7:9, Proverbs 19:3, Micah 7:9, Jeremiah 30:15

40NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.

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2 Corinthians 13:5, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Psalms 139:23

41NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.

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Psalms 25:1, Psalms 25:1, Psalms 28:2, Psalms 28:2, Psalms 143:6

42NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.

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Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:26, Lamentations 5:16, Lamentations 1:18, Jeremiah 3:13

43SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.

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Lamentations 2:17, Lamentations 2:21, Lamentations 2:17, Lamentations 2:21, Psalms 83:15

44SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.

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Lamentations 3:8, Lamentations 3:8, Zechariah 7:13, Zechariah 7:13, Psalms 97:2

45SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.

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1 Corinthians 4:13, 1 Corinthians 4:13, Deuteronomy 28:44, Deuteronomy 28:13, Deuteronomy 28:37

46PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.

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Lamentations 2:16, Lamentations 2:16, Psalms 22:6, Psalms 22:8, Psalms 22:6

47PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.

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Isaiah 51:19, Isaiah 24:17, Isaiah 24:18, Isaiah 51:19, Isaiah 24:17

48PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.

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Lamentations 2:11, Jeremiah 9:1, Lamentations 2:11, Jeremiah 9:1, Lamentations 2:18

49AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest

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Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 14:17, Psalms 77:2, Psalms 77:2, Lamentations 1:16

50AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.

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Isaiah 63:15, Isaiah 63:15, Lamentations 5:1, Lamentations 5:1, Psalms 102:19

51AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city.

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Luke 19:41, Luke 19:44, Luke 19:41, Luke 19:44, Lamentations 1:18

52SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.

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Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:19, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:19, Jeremiah 37:18

53SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.

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Jeremiah 38:9, Daniel 6:17, Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:9, Daniel 6:17

54SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, “I am lost.”

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Jonah 2:3, Jonah 2:5, Jonah 2:3, Jonah 2:5, Ezekiel 37:11

55COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit.

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Acts 16:24, Acts 16:28, Acts 16:24, Acts 16:28, Psalms 18:5

56COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries.

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Job 34:28, Psalms 55:1, Job 34:28, Psalms 55:1, Psalms 34:6

57COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, “Fear not.”

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Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:10, James 4:8, James 4:8, Isaiah 58:9

58RES. You have judged, O Lord, the case of my soul. You are the Redeemer of my life.

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Psalms 34:22, Psalms 35:1, Psalms 34:22, Psalms 35:1, Jeremiah 51:36

59RES. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me. Judge my case.

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Psalms 43:1, Psalms 43:1, 1 Peter 2:23, Psalms 35:1, Genesis 31:42

60RES. You have seen all their fury, every one of their thoughts is against me.

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Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 11:20, Lamentations 3:59

61SIN. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their thoughts are against me.

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Lamentations 5:1, Lamentations 5:1, Zephaniah 2:8, Psalms 74:18, Psalms 89:50

62SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long.

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Ezekiel 36:3, Ezekiel 36:3, Psalms 140:3, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 59:7

63SIN. Watch their sitting down and their rising up: I am their psalm.

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Psalms 139:2, Lamentations 3:14, Psalms 139:2, Lamentations 3:14, Job 30:9

64THAU. You shall pay a recompense to them, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

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Psalms 28:4, Psalms 28:4, Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 11:20, 2 Timothy 4:14

65THAU. You shall give them a heavy shield of the heart: your hardship.

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Isaiah 6:10, Isaiah 6:10, Deuteronomy 2:30, Deuteronomy 2:30, 1 Corinthians 16:22

66THAU. You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord.

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Psalms 8:3, Psalms 8:3, Jeremiah 10:11, Lamentations 3:43, Deuteronomy 25:19