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- I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;
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- he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
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- surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.
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- He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;
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- he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
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- he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
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- He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;
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- though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
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- he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
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- He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding;
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- he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;
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- he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
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- He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;
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- I have become the laughingstock of all my people, the object of their taunts all day long.
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- He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.
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- He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
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- my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is;
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- so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD.”
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- Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
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- My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.
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- But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
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- The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;
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- they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
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- “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
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- The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
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- It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
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- It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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- Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him;
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- let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;
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- let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults.
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- For the Lord will not cast off forever,
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- for, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
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- for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men.
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- To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,
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- to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High,
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- to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.
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- Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
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- Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
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- Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
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- Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD!
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- Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
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- “We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.
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- “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;
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- you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
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- You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.
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- “All our enemies open their mouths against us;
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- panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;
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- my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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- “My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,
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- until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees;
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- my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.
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- “I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;
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- they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;
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- water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’
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- “I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit;
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- you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!’
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- You came near when I called on you; you said, ‘Do not fear!’
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- “You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life.
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- You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.
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- You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.
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- “You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me.
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- The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.
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- Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.
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- “You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
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- You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them.
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- You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD.”
Kapcsolódó igehirdetések: Be Ki
Kalauz
November 4
Kétéves:
- I. év: 2Sám 16
- II. év: Hós 9
- Zsid 6:1-20
- Zsolt 105:16-36
- Péld 27:1-2
Példabeszéd
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