25:002:022 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
25:003:001 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
25:003:002 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
25:003:003 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
25:003:004 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
25:003:005 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
25:003:006 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
25:003:007 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
25:003:008 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
25:003:009 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
25:003:010 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
25:003:011 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
25:003:012 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
25:003:013 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
25:003:014 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
25:003:015 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
25:003:016 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
25:003:017 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
25:003:018 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
25:003:019 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
25:003:020 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
25:003:021 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
25:003:022 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
25:003:023 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
25:003:024 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25:003:025 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
25:003:026 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.  |
