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Afflicted, I have seen and know what it’s like
    to feel the rod of God’s anger:
An absence of light and only darkness.
    Darkness—that’s where God has driven me.
Against me and me alone, over and over,
    God raises His hand incessantly.

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[a]I am the man who has seen affliction(A)
    by the rod of the Lord’s wrath.(B)
He has driven me away and made me walk
    in darkness(C) rather than light;
indeed, he has turned his hand against me(D)
    again and again, all day long.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem; the verses of each stanza begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and the verses within each stanza begin with the same letter.

刑罚、悔改和盼望

我在耶和华烈怒的杖下受尽痛苦。
祂把我赶进黑暗,
使我不见光明,
又屡屡攻击我,终日不断。

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I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

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