WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.320 Chapter Three I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 00:06.320 --> 00:09.940 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 00:10.880 --> 00:12.340 Surely against me is he turned. 00:13.040 --> 00:15.100 He turneth his hand against me all the day. 00:16.000 --> 00:17.860 My flesh and my skin hath he made old. 00:18.520 --> 00:19.700 He hath broken my bones. 00:20.500 --> 00:23.800 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 00:24.800 --> 00:28.100 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 00:28.820 --> 00:31.720 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out. 00:32.560 --> 00:34.000 He hath made my chain heavy. 00:35.100 --> 00:37.920 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 00:38.900 --> 00:41.420 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone. 00:42.360 --> 00:43.900 He hath made my paths crooked. 00:45.100 --> 00:49.480 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. 00:50.500 --> 00:53.580 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. 00:54.520 --> 00:55.640 He hath made me desolate. 00:56.340 --> 00:59.620 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 01:00.680 --> 01:03.740 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 01:04.620 --> 01:08.320 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. 01:09.320 --> 01:10.600 He hath filled me with bitterness. 01:11.160 --> 01:13.000 He hath made me drunken with wormwood. 01:13.800 --> 01:16.260 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones. 01:16.520 --> 01:17.700 He hath covered me with ashes. 01:18.580 --> 01:21.920 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace. 01:22.500 --> 01:24.140 I forgot prosperity. 01:25.180 --> 01:29.360 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord. 01:30.640 --> 01:33.740 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 01:34.440 --> 01:37.500 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. 01:38.480 --> 01:41.620 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 01:43.000 --> 01:47.220 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail 01:47.220 --> 01:47.560 not. 01:48.380 --> 01:49.740 They are new every morning. 01:50.340 --> 01:51.880 Great is thy faithfulness. 01:52.420 --> 01:54.680 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul. 01:55.400 --> 01:56.800 Therefore will I hope in him. 01:57.980 --> 02:01.660 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 02:02.420 --> 02:06.100 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the 02:06.100 --> 02:06.360 Lord. 02:07.120 --> 02:09.420 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 02:10.380 --> 02:14.060 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. 02:14.900 --> 02:16.920 He putteth his mouth in the dust. 02:17.760 --> 02:19.240 If so, be there may be hope. 02:20.740 --> 02:22.920 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him. 02:23.680 --> 02:27.920 He is filled full with reproach, for the Lord will not cast off for ever. 02:28.960 --> 02:32.760 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude 02:32.760 --> 02:33.840 of his mercies. 02:34.800 --> 02:38.000 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men, 02:38.340 --> 02:43.420 to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, to turn aside the right of a 02:43.420 --> 02:45.940 man before the face of the Most High. 02:46.780 --> 02:49.700 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. 02:50.100 --> 02:54.220 Who is he that sayeth, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 02:55.120 --> 02:58.200 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good? 02:59.180 --> 03:03.060 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 03:03.820 --> 03:07.000 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. 03:07.000 --> 03:11.280 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. 03:12.380 --> 03:14.060 We have transgressed and have rebelled. 03:15.100 --> 03:16.120 Thou hast not pardoned. 03:16.860 --> 03:19.540 Thou hast covered with anger and persecuted us. 03:19.880 --> 03:20.680 Thou hast slain. 03:21.100 --> 03:21.960 Thou hast not pitied. 03:22.840 --> 03:27.040 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 03:27.960 --> 03:32.120 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 03:32.820 --> 03:35.100 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 03:35.100 --> 03:38.980 Fear and a snare has come upon us, desolation and destruction. 03:40.120 --> 03:43.860 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my 03:43.860 --> 03:44.220 people. 03:45.040 --> 03:50.060 Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not without any intermission, till the Lord 03:50.060 --> 03:51.600 look down and behold from heaven. 03:52.500 --> 03:56.060 Mine eye effecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. 03:57.180 --> 04:00.140 Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird without cause. 04:01.040 --> 04:04.400 They have cut off my life in the dungeon and cast a stone upon me. 04:05.040 --> 04:06.740 Waters flowed over mine head. 04:07.180 --> 04:08.980 Then I said, I am cut off. 04:09.700 --> 04:12.700 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. 04:13.660 --> 04:15.040 Thou hast heard my voice. 04:15.860 --> 04:18.560 Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 04:19.480 --> 04:22.020 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee. 04:22.540 --> 04:24.160 Thou saidst, Fear not. 04:25.200 --> 04:28.480 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul. 04:29.540 --> 04:31.120 Thou hast redeemed my life. 04:31.760 --> 04:34.580 O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong. 04:35.300 --> 04:36.300 Judge thou my cause. 04:37.260 --> 04:40.620 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. 04:41.540 --> 04:45.100 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against 04:45.100 --> 04:45.360 me. 04:46.160 --> 04:50.260 The lips of those that rose up against me and their device against me all the day. 04:51.120 --> 04:53.220 Behold, they're sitting down and they're rising up. 04:53.540 --> 04:54.820 I am their music. 04:56.020 --> 04:59.520 Render unto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their 04:59.520 --> 04:59.960 hands. 05:00.580 --> 05:03.800 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. 05:04.580 --> 05:08.300 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.