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For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

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

We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.

I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,

Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.

The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover thy sins.