The Bible Experiment

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1I AM the man that hath seen affliction…
2He hath led me, and brought me into…
3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth…
4My flesh and my skin hath he made…
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me…
6He hath set me in dark places, as…
7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot…
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth…
9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone,…
10He was unto me as a bear lying…
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled…
12He hath bent his bow, and set me…
13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver…
14I was a derision to all my people;…
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath…
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel…
17And thou hast removed my soul far off…
18And I said, My strength and my hope…
19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood…
20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and…
21This I recall to my mind, therefore have…
22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we…
23They are new every morning: great is thy…
24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul;…
25The LORD is good unto them that wait…
26It is good that a man should both…
27It is good for a man that he…
28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he…
29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if…
30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth…
31For the LORD will not cast off for…
32But though he cause grief, yet will he…
33For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve…
34To crush under his feet all the prisoners…
35To turn aside the right of a man…
36To subvert a man in his cause, the…
37Who is he that saith, and it cometh…
38Out of the mouth of the most High…
39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man…
40Let us search and try our ways, and…
41Let us lift up our heart with our…
42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast…
43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us:…
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that…
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and…
46All our enemies have opened their mouths against…
47Fear and a snare is come upon us,…
48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water…
49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without…
50Till the LORD look down, and behold from…
51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all…
52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird,…
53They have cut off my life in the…
54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said,…
55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out…
56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine…
57Thou drewest near in the day that I…
58O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of…
59O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge…
60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all…
61Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and…
62The lips of those that rose up against…
63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up;…
64Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according…
65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto…
66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under…

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