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The Prophet’s Anguish and Hope
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
Hope in the LORD’s Faithfulness
I am the one who has seen the afflictions
that come from the rod of the LORD’s anger.
I am the one who has seen the afflictions
that come from the rod of the LORD’s anger.
He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
In darkness and not in light.
He has led me into darkness,
shutting out all light.
shutting out all light.
Surely He has turned His hand against me
Time and time again throughout the day.
Time and time again throughout the day.
He has turned his hand against me
again and again, all day long.
again and again, all day long.
He has aged my flesh and my skin,
And broken my bones.
And broken my bones.
He has made my skin and flesh grow old.
He has broken my bones.
He has broken my bones.
He has besieged and surrounded me
with anguish and distress.
with anguish and distress.
He has set me in dark places
Like the dead of long ago.
Like the dead of long ago.
He has buried me in a dark place,
like those long dead.
like those long dead.
He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
He has made my chain heavy.
He has walled me in, and I cannot escape.
He has bound me in heavy chains.
He has bound me in heavy chains.
Even when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.
He shuts out my prayer.
And though I cry and shout,
he has shut out my prayers.
he has shut out my prayers.
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
He has made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my way with a high stone wall;
he has made my road crooked.
he has made my road crooked.
He has hidden like a bear or a lion,
waiting to attack me.
waiting to attack me.
He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces;
He has made me desolate.
He has made me desolate.
He has dragged me off the path and torn me in pieces,
leaving me helpless and devastated.
leaving me helpless and devastated.
He has bent His bow
And set me up as a target for the arrow.
And set me up as a target for the arrow.
He has drawn his bow
and made me the target for his arrows.
and made me the target for his arrows.
He shot his arrows
deep into my heart.
deep into my heart.
I have become the ridicule of all my people —
Their taunting song all the day.
Their taunting song all the day.
My own people laugh at me.
All day long they sing their mocking songs.
All day long they sing their mocking songs.
He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink wormwood.
He has made me drink wormwood.
He has filled me with bitterness
and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
He has made me chew on gravel.
He has rolled me in the dust.
He has rolled me in the dust.
Peace has been stripped away,
and I have forgotten what prosperity is.
and I have forgotten what prosperity is.
And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the Lord.”
Have perished from the Lord.”
I cry out, “My splendor is gone!
Everything I had hoped for from the LORD is lost!”
Everything I had hoped for from the LORD is lost!”
I will never forget this awful time,
as I grieve over my loss.
as I grieve over my loss.
This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.
Therefore I have hope.
Yet I still dare to hope
when I remember this:
when I remember this:
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
Because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
Great is Your faithfulness.
Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I hope in Him!”
“Therefore I hope in Him!”
I say to myself, “The LORD is my inheritance;
therefore, I will hope in him!”
therefore, I will hope in him!”
The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.
To the soul who seeks Him.
The LORD is good to those who depend on him,
to those who search for him.
to those who search for him.
It is good that one should hope and wait quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.
For the salvation of the Lord.
So it is good to wait quietly
for salvation from the LORD.
for salvation from the LORD.
It is good for a man to bear
The yoke in his youth.
The yoke in his youth.
And it is good for people to submit at an early age
to the yoke of his discipline:
to the yoke of his discipline:
Let him sit alone and keep silent,
Because God has laid it on him;
Because God has laid it on him;
Let them sit alone in silence
beneath the LORD’s demands.
beneath the LORD’s demands.
Let him put his mouth in the dust —
There may yet be hope.
There may yet be hope.
Let them lie face down in the dust,
for there may be hope at last.
for there may be hope at last.
Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him,
And be full of reproach.
And be full of reproach.
Let them turn the other cheek to those who strike them
and accept the insults of their enemies.
and accept the insults of their enemies.
Though He causes grief,
Yet He will show compassion
According to the multitude of His mercies.
Yet He will show compassion
According to the multitude of His mercies.
Though he brings grief, he also shows compassion
because of the greatness of his unfailing love.
because of the greatness of his unfailing love.
For he does not enjoy hurting people
or causing them sorrow.
or causing them sorrow.
To crush under one’s feet
All the prisoners of the earth,
All the prisoners of the earth,
If people crush underfoot
all the prisoners of the land,
all the prisoners of the land,
To turn aside the justice due a man
Before the face of the Most High,
Before the face of the Most High,
if they deprive others of their rights
in defiance of the Most High,
in defiance of the Most High,
Or subvert a man in his cause —
The Lord does not approve.
The Lord does not approve.
if they twist justice in the courts —
doesn’t the Lord see all these things?
doesn’t the Lord see all these things?
Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass,
When the Lord has not commanded it?
When the Lord has not commanded it?
Who can command things to happen
without the Lord’s permission?
without the Lord’s permission?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That woe and well-being proceed?
That woe and well-being proceed?
Does not the Most High
send both calamity and good?
send both calamity and good?
Then why should we, mere humans, complain
when we are punished for our sins?
when we are punished for our sins?
Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the Lord;
And turn back to the Lord;
Instead, let us test and examine our ways.
Let us turn back to the LORD.
Let us turn back to the LORD.
Let us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.
To God in heaven.
Let us lift our hearts and hands
to God in heaven and say,
to God in heaven and say,
We have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.
You have not pardoned.
“We have sinned and rebelled,
and you have not forgiven us.
and you have not forgiven us.
You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and not pitied.
And pursued us;
You have slain and not pitied.
“You have engulfed us with your anger, chased us down,
and slaughtered us without mercy.
and slaughtered us without mercy.
You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
That prayer should not pass through.
That prayer should not pass through.
You have hidden yourself in a cloud
so our prayers cannot reach you.
so our prayers cannot reach you.
You have made us an offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.
In the midst of the peoples.
You have discarded us as refuse and garbage
among the nations.
among the nations.
All our enemies
Have opened their mouths against us.
Have opened their mouths against us.
“All our enemies
have spoken out against us.
have spoken out against us.
Fear and a snare have come upon us,
Desolation and destruction.
Desolation and destruction.
We are filled with fear,
for we are trapped, devastated, and ruined.”
for we are trapped, devastated, and ruined.”
My eyes overflow with rivers of water
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Tears stream from my eyes
because of the destruction of my people!
because of the destruction of my people!
My eyes flow and do not cease,
Without interruption,
Without interruption,
My tears flow endlessly;
they will not stop
they will not stop
Till the Lord from heaven
Looks down and sees.
Looks down and sees.
until the LORD looks down
from heaven and sees.
from heaven and sees.
My eyes bring suffering to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Because of all the daughters of my city.
My heart is breaking
over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem.
over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem.
My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird.
Hunted me down like a bird.
My enemies, whom I have never harmed,
hunted me down like a bird.
hunted me down like a bird.
They threw me into a pit
and dropped stones on me.
and dropped stones on me.
The waters flowed over my head;
I said, “I am cut off!”
I said, “I am cut off!”
The water rose over my head,
and I cried out, “This is the end!”
and I cried out, “This is the end!”
I called on Your name, O Lord,
From the lowest pit.
From the lowest pit.
But I called on your name, LORD,
from deep within the pit.
from deep within the pit.
You have heard my voice:
“Do not hide Your ear
From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
“Do not hide Your ear
From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
You heard me when I cried, “Listen to my pleading!
Hear my cry for help!”
Hear my cry for help!”
You drew near on the day I called on You,
And said, “Do not fear!”
And said, “Do not fear!”
Yes, you came when I called;
you told me, “Do not fear.”
you told me, “Do not fear.”
O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul;
You have redeemed my life.
You have redeemed my life.
Lord, you have come to my defense;
you have redeemed my life.
you have redeemed my life.
You have seen the wrong they have done to me, LORD.
Be my judge, and prove me right.
Be my judge, and prove me right.
You have seen all their vengeance,
All their schemes against me.
All their schemes against me.
You have seen the vengeful plots
my enemies have laid against me.
my enemies have laid against me.
You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
All their schemes against me,
All their schemes against me,
LORD, you have heard the vile names they call me.
You know all about the plans they have made.
You know all about the plans they have made.
The lips of my enemies
And their whispering against me all the day.
And their whispering against me all the day.
My enemies whisper and mutter
as they plot against me all day long.
as they plot against me all day long.
Look at their sitting down and their rising up;
I am their taunting song.
I am their taunting song.
Look at them! Whether they sit or stand,
I am the object of their mocking songs.
I am the object of their mocking songs.
Repay them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.
According to the work of their hands.
Pay them back, LORD,
for all the evil they have done.
for all the evil they have done.
Give them hard and stubborn hearts,
and then let your curse fall on them!
and then let your curse fall on them!