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  • Great Is Your Faithfulness

    I am the man who has seen affliction
    under the rod of his wrath;
  • Jeremiah Shares Israel’s Affliction

    I am the man who has seen affliction
    Because of the rod of His wrath.
  • he has driven and brought me
    into darkness without any light;
  • He has driven me and made me walk
    In darkness and not in light.
  • surely against me he turns his hand
    again and again the whole day long.
  • Surely against me He has turned His hand
    Repeatedly all the day.
  • He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
    he has broken my bones;
  • He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away,
    He has broken my bones.
  • he has besieged and enveloped me
    with bitterness and tribulation;
  • He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
  • he has made me dwell in darkness
    like the dead of long ago.
  • In dark places He has made me dwell,
    Like those who have long been dead.
  • He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
    he has made my chains heavy;
  • He has walled me in so that I cannot go out;
    He has made my chain heavy.
  • though I call and cry for help,
    he shuts out my prayer;
  • Even when I cry out and call for help,
    He shuts out my prayer.
  • he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
    he has made my paths crooked.
  • He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
    He has made my paths crooked.
  • He is a bear lying in wait for me,
    a lion in hiding;
  • He is to me like a bear lying in wait,
    Like a lion in secret places.
  • he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces;
    he has made me desolate;
  • He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces;
    He has made me desolate.
  • he bent his bow and set me
    as a target for his arrow.
  • He bent His bow
    And set me as a target for the arrow.
  • He drove into my kidneys
    the arrows of his quiver;
  • He made the arrows of His quiver
    To enter into my inward parts.
  • I have become the laughingstock of all peoples,
    the object of their taunts all day long.
  • I have become a laughingstock to all my people,
    Their mocking song all the day.
  • He has filled me with bitterness;
    he has sated me with wormwood.
  • He has filled me with bitterness,
    He has made me drunk with wormwood.
  • He has made my teeth grind on gravel,
    and made me cower in ashes;
  • He has broken my teeth with gravel;
    He has made me cower in the dust.
  • my soul is bereft of peace;
    I have forgotten what happinessa is;
  • My soul has been rejected from peace;
    I have forgotten happiness.
  • so I say, “My endurance has perished;
    so has my hope from the Lord.”
  • So I say, “My strength has perished,
    And so has my hope from the LORD.”
  • Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
    the wormwood and the gall!

  • Hope of Relief in God’s Mercy

    Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
  • My soul continually remembers it
    and is bowed down within me.
  • Surely my soul remembers
    And is bowed down within me.
  • But this I call to mind,
    and therefore I have hope:
  • This I recall to my mind,
    Therefore I have hope.
  • The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;b
    his mercies never come to an end;
  • The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
    For His compassions never fail.
  • they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.
  • They are new every morning;
    Great is Your faithfulness.
  • “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
    “therefore I will hope in him.”
  • “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,
    “Therefore I have hope in Him.”
  • The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
    to the soul who seeks him.
  • The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,
    To the person who seeks Him.
  • It is good that one should wait quietly
    for the salvation of the Lord.
  • It is good that he waits silently
    For the salvation of the LORD.
  • It is good for a man that he bear
    the yoke in his youth.
  • It is good for a man that he should bear
    The yoke in his youth.
  • Let him sit alone in silence
    when it is laid on him;
  • Let him sit alone and be silent
    Since He has laid it on him.
  • let him put his mouth in the dust —
    there may yet be hope;
  • Let him put his mouth in the dust,
    Perhaps there is hope.
  • let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
    and let him be filled with insults.
  • Let him give his cheek to the smiter,
    Let him be filled with reproach.
  • For the Lord will not
    cast off forever,
  • For the Lord will not reject forever,
  • but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion
    according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
  • For if He causes grief,
    Then He will have compassion
    According to His abundant lovingkindness.
  • for he does not afflict from his heart
    or grieve the children of men.
  • For He does not afflict willingly
    Or grieve the sons of men.
  • To crush underfoot
    all the prisoners of the earth,
  • To crush under His feet
    All the prisoners of the land,
  • to deny a man justice
    in the presence of the Most High,
  • To deprive a man of justice
    In the presence of the Most High,
  • to subvert a man in his lawsuit,
    the Lord does not approve.
  • To defraud a man in his lawsuit —
    Of these things the Lord does not approve.
  • Who has spoken and it came to pass,
    unless the Lord has commanded it?
  • Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
    Unless the Lord has commanded it?
  • Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that good and bad come?
  • Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    That both good and ill go forth?
  • Why should a living man complain,
    a man, about the punishment of his sins?
  • Why should any living mortal, or any man,
    Offer complaint in view of his sins?
  • Let us test and examine our ways,
    and return to the Lord!
  • Let us examine and probe our ways,
    And let us return to the LORD.
  • Let us lift up our hearts and hands
    to God in heaven:
  • We lift up our heart and hands
    Toward God in heaven;
  • “We have transgressed and rebelled,
    and you have not forgiven.
  • We have transgressed and rebelled,
    You have not pardoned.
  • “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
    killing without pity;
  • You have covered Yourself with anger
    And pursued us;
    You have slain and have not spared.
  • you have wrapped yourself with a cloud
    so that no prayer can pass through.
  • You have covered Yourself with a cloud
    So that no prayer can pass through.
  • You have made us scum and garbage
    among the peoples.
  • You have made us mere offscouring and refuse
    In the midst of the peoples.
  • “All our enemies
    open their mouths against us;
  • All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
  • panic and pitfall have come upon us,
    devastation and destruction;
  • Panic and pitfall have befallen us,
    Devastation and destruction;
  • my eyes flow with rivers of tears
    because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • My eyes run down with streams of water
    Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • “My eyes will flow without ceasing,
    without respite,
  • My eyes pour down unceasingly,
    Without stopping,
  • until the Lord from heaven
    looks down and sees;
  • Until the LORD looks down
    And sees from heaven.
  • my eyes cause me grief
    at the fate of all the daughters of my city.
  • My eyes bring pain to my soul
    Because of all the daughters of my city.
  • “I have been hunted like a bird
    by those who were my enemies without cause;
  • My enemies without cause
    Hunted me down like a bird;
  • they flung me alive into the pit
    and cast stones on me;
  • They have silenced me in the pit
    And have placed a stone on me.
  • water closed over my head;
    I said, ‘I am lost.’
  • Waters flowed over my head;
    I said, “I am cut off!”
  • “I called on your name, O Lord,
    from the depths of the pit;
  • I called on Your name, O LORD,
    Out of the lowest pit.
  • you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
    your ear to my cry for help!’
  • You have heard my voice,
    “Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
    From my cry for help.”
  • You came near when I called on you;
    you said, ‘Do not fear!’
  • You drew near when I called on You;
    You said, “Do not fear!”
  • “You have taken up my cause, O Lord;
    you have redeemed my life.
  • O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause;
    You have redeemed my life.
  • You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord;
    judge my cause.
  • O LORD, You have seen my oppression;
    Judge my case.
  • You have seen all their vengeance,
    all their plots against me.
  • You have seen all their vengeance,
    All their schemes against me.
  • “You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
    all their plots against me.
  • You have heard their reproach, O LORD,
    All their schemes against me.
  • The lips and thoughts of my assailants
    are against me all the day long.
  • The lips of my assailants and their whispering
    Are against me all day long.
  • Behold their sitting and their rising;
    I am the object of their taunts.
  • Look on their sitting and their rising;
    I am their mocking song.
  • “You will repay them,c O Lord,
    according to the work of their hands.
  • You will recompense them, O LORD,
    According to the work of their hands.
  • You will give themd dullness of heart;
    your curse will bee on them.
  • You will give them hardness of heart,
    Your curse will be on them.
  • You will pursue themf in anger and destroy them
    from under your heavens, O Lord.”g
  • You will pursue them in anger and destroy them
    From under the heavens of the LORD!

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