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Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
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Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
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Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
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Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.
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Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.
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Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
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Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.
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Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
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Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
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Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
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Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
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Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
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He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
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He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.
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Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.
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Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.
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Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.
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Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.
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Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.
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Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
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Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.
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Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.
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Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.
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Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.
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Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
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Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.
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Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.
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Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.
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Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,
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Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.
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Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?
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Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?
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Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?
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Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.
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Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
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Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
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Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
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Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
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Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
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Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:
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Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
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Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
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Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
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Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.
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Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.
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Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.
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Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.
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Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.
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Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.
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Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.
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Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
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Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
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Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.