38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That
a woe and well-being proceed?
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39 a Why should a living man
1 complain,
b A man for the punishment of his sins?
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40 Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the
Lord ;
41 a Let us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.
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42 a We have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.
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43 You have covered
Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain
and not pitied.
44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
That prayer should not pass through.
45 You have made us an
a offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.
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46 a All our enemies
Have opened their mouths against us.
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47 a Fear and a snare have come upon us,
b Desolation and destruction.
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48 a My eyes overflow with rivers of water
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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49 a My eyes flow and do not cease,
Without interruption,
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50 Till the
Lord from heaven
a Looks down and sees.
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51 My eyes bring suffering to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
52 My enemies
a without cause
Hunted me down like a bird.
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New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
