1Aleph. I am the man that see my 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 hath led me, and brought 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. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

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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 hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

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

5Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.

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

6Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.

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

7Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

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

8Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

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

9Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

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

10Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

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

11Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.

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

12Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

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

13He. He hath shot into my reins 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 am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.

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

15He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath 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 hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath 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 is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.

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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 is perished from the Lord.

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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 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 be mindful and remember, 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 things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.

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

22Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

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

23Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy 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: therefore will I 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 them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh 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 wait with 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 hath borne 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 hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

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

29Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be 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 him that striketh him, he shall be filled 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 cast off for ever.

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

32Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, 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 hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

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

34Lamed. 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. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,

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36Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.

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

37Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

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

38Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?

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

39Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, 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 search our ways, and seek, 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 to 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 done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.

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

43Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.

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

44Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

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

45Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.

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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 against us.

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

47Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.

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

48Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction 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 is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:

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

50Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down 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 hath wasted my soul because of all 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 caught me like a bird, without cause.

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

53Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.

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

54Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

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

55Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

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

56Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

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

57Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.

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

58Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou 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. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.

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

60Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.

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

61Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations 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 them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

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

63Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.

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

64Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, 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. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.

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

66Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

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