28 I (A)go about darkened, but not by the sun;
    I stand up in (B)the assembly and cry for help.

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For you are (A)the God in whom I take refuge;
    why have you (B)rejected me?
Why do I (C)go about mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?

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I say to God, (A)my rock:
    “Why have you forgotten me?
(B)Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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I am (A)utterly bowed down and (B)prostrate;
    all the day I (C)go about mourning.

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Great Is Your Faithfulness

(A)I am the man who has seen affliction
    under the (B)rod of his wrath;
he has driven and brought me
    (C)into darkness without any light;
surely against me he turns his hand
    again and again the whole day long.

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(A)He was despised and rejected[a] by men,
    a man of sorrows[b] and acquainted with[c] grief;[d]
and as one from whom men hide their faces[e]
    he was despised, and (B)we esteemed him not.

(C)Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    (D)smitten by God, and afflicted.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
  2. Isaiah 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4
  3. Isaiah 53:3 Or and knowing
  4. Isaiah 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4
  5. Isaiah 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us

Behold, I (A)cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;
    I call for help, but there is no justice.

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