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Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
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He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
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He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush.
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He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; He has made me desolate.
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He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow.
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He has caused the arrows of His quiver To pierce my loins.
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I have become the ridicule of all my people-- Their taunting song all the day.
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He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood.
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He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes.
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You have moved my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.
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And I said, "My strength and my hope Have perished from the Lord."