✧1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. ✧2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. ✧3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. ✧4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. ✧5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. ✧6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages. ✧7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains. ✧8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. ✧9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
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✧10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
✧11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
✧12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.