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The LORD has done what He purposed; He has accomplished His word Which He commanded from days of old. He has thrown down without sparing, And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the might of your adversaries.

I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.

Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.

He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.

The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.

It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.

Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.

Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.

For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.

To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,

To defraud a man in his lawsuit— Of these things the Lord does not approve.

Why should any living mortal, or any man, Offer complaint in view of his sins?

The LORD has accomplished His wrath, He has poured out His fierce anger; And He has kindled a fire in Zion Which has consumed its foundations.

The breath of our nostrils, the LORD'S anointed, Was captured in their pits, Of whom we had said, "Under his shadow We shall live among the nations."

Then I noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him.

Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me, "Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His place."

"When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

"Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.

"Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.