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he turneth his hand against me all the day."]},{"type":"verse","number":4,"content":["My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones."]},{"type":"verse","number":5,"content":["He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."]},{"type":"verse","number":6,"content":["He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old."]},{"type":"verse","number":7,"content":["He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy."]},{"type":"verse","number":8,"content":["Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer."]},{"type":"verse","number":9,"content":["He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked."]},{"type":"verse","number":10,"content":["He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places."]},{"type":"verse","number":11,"content":["He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate."]},{"type":"verse","number":12,"content":["He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow."]},{"type":"verse","number":13,"content":["He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.",{"noteId":19}]},{"type":"verse","number":14,"content":["I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day."]},{"type":"verse","number":15,"content":["He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.",{"noteId":20}]},{"type":"verse","number":16,"content":["He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.",{"noteId":21}]},{"type":"verse","number":17,"content":["And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.",{"noteId":22}]},{"type":"verse","number":18,"content":["And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:"]},{"type":"verse","number":19,"content":["Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.",{"noteId":23}]},{"type":"verse","number":20,"content":["My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.",{"noteId":24}]},{"type":"verse","number":21,"content":["This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.",{"noteId":25}]},{"type":"verse","number":22,"content":["¶ It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."]},{"type":"verse","number":23,"content":["They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."]},{"type":"verse","number":24,"content":["The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."]},{"type":"verse","number":25,"content":["The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him."]},{"type":"verse","number":26,"content":["It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."]},{"type":"verse","number":27,"content":["It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."]},{"type":"verse","number":28,"content":["He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him."]},{"type":"verse","number":29,"content":["He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope."]},{"type":"verse","number":30,"content":["He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach."]},{"type":"verse","number":31,"content":["For the Lord will not cast off for ever:"]},{"type":"verse","number":32,"content":["But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies."]},{"type":"verse","number":33,"content":["For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.",{"noteId":26}]},{"type":"verse","number":34,"content":["To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,"]},{"type":"verse","number":35,"content":["To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,",{"noteId":27}]},{"type":"verse","number":36,"content":["To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.",{"noteId":28}]},{"type":"verse","number":37,"content":["¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"]},{"type":"verse","number":38,"content":["Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?"]},{"type":"verse","number":39,"content":["Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?",{"noteId":29}]},{"type":"verse","number":40,"content":["Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD."]},{"type":"verse","number":41,"content":["Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens."]},{"type":"verse","number":42,"content":["We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned."]},{"type":"verse","number":43,"content":["Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied."]},{"type":"verse","number":44,"content":["Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through."]},{"type":"verse","number":45,"content":["Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people."]},{"type":"verse","number":46,"content":["All our enemies have opened their mouths against us."]},{"type":"verse","number":47,"content":["Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."]},{"type":"verse","number":48,"content":["Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people."]},{"type":"verse","number":49,"content":["Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,"]},{"type":"verse","number":50,"content":["Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."]},{"type":"verse","number":51,"content":["Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.",{"noteId":30},{"noteId":31}]},{"type":"verse","number":52,"content":["Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause."]},{"type":"verse","number":53,"content":["They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me."]},{"type":"verse","number":54,"content":["Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off."]},{"type":"verse","number":55,"content":["¶ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon."]},{"type":"verse","number":56,"content":["Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry."]},{"type":"verse","number":57,"content":["Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not."]},{"type":"verse","number":58,"content":["O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life."]},{"type":"verse","number":59,"content":["O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause."]},{"type":"verse","number":60,"content":["Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me."]},{"type":"verse","number":61,"content":["Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;"]},{"type":"verse","number":62,"content":["The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day."]},{"type":"verse","number":63,"content":["Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; 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