1ALEPH I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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

2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

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

3Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.

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

4My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.

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

5He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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

6He has made me to dwell in dark places, like those that have been long dead.

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

7He has walled me in, so I can't escape; he has made my chains heavy.

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

8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

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

9He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

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

10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.

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

11He has obstructed my path, and torn me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

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

12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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

13He has caused the arrows of his quiver to pierce my inward parts.

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

14I have become a laughingstock to all my people, and their song all the day.

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

15He has filled me with bitterness, he has given me in full measure wormwood.

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

16He has also broken my teeth with gravel; he has pressed me down in the dust.

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

17You have removed my soul far away from peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

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

18And I said, "My strength and my hope has perished from the Lord."

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

19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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

20My soul considers them, and is depressed.

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

21But this I call to my mind; therefore I have hope:

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

22The Lord's faithful love does not cease; his compassion does not fail.

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

23They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

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

24"The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "therefore will I hope in him."

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

25The Lord is good to those who wait for 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

26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

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

27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke while he is young.

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

28Let him sit alone and keep silence when he is disciplining him.

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

29Let him put his mouth to the dust, there may yet be hope.

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

30Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled with insults.

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

31For the Lord will not reject forever.

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

32For though he may cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the abundance of his loving kindness.

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

33For he is not predisposed to bring affliction or suffering to the children of men.

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

34To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth;

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

35to deprive a man of justice before the face of the Most High,

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36to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

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

37Who can speak a thing and have it come to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?

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

38Doesn't both calamity and good come out of 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

39Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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

40Let us examine and search our ways, 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

41Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

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

42We have transgressed and have rebelled, and you have not forgiven.

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

43You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you killed without sparing.

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

44You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

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

45You have made us rubbish and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

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

46All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

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

47Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.

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

48Streams of tears run down from my eyes because of 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

49My tears flow and do not cease, without respite,

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

50until the Lord looks down and sees from heaven.

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

51My eyes bring my soul grief, 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

52They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

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

53They have cut off my life in a pit, and have cast a stone on me.

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

54Waters flowed over my head; I said, 'I am finished.'

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

55I called on your name, Lord, out of the depths of the pit.

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

56You heard my voice; do not hide your ear at my sighs, to my cry.

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

57You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, "Do not be afraid."

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

58Lord, you have taken up the case for my soul; you have redeemed my life.

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

59Lord, you have seen the wrong done to me; judge my case.

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

60You have seen all their vengeance and all their plots against me.

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

61You have heard their insults, Lord, and all their plots against me.

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

62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

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

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

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

64You will render to them what they deserve, Lord, according to the work of their hands.

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

65You will give them hardness of heart as your curse to them.

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

66You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the Lord.

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