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2 For why wolde no man receaue me, when I came? and when I called, no man gaue me answere. Is my hande shortened that it might not helpe? or haue I not power to deliuer? lo, at a worde I dryncke vp the see and of water floudes I make drye lande: so that for want of water, the fyshe corrupt and dye for thurst.
3 As for heauen, I clothe it with darcknesse, and put as it were a sack vpon it.
4 The Lorde God hath geuen me a well lerned tonge, so that I can confort them which are troubled: yee, and that in due ceason. He wakeneth myne eare vp by tymes in the mornynge: by tymes in the morninge, I saye, he will waken myne eare, that I myght herken as to the scole masters.
5 The Lord God hath opened myne eare, therfore can I nott saye, naye: ner withdrawe my selfe:
6 but I offre my backe vnto the smyters, & my chekes to the nippers. I turne not my face from shame and spittyng,