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I

How long, Lord? Will you utterly forget me?
    How long will you hide your face from me?(A)

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How long must I wrestle with my thoughts(A)
    and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
    How long will my enemy triumph over me?(B)

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II

So I say to the boastful: “Do not boast!”(A)
    to the wicked: “Do not raise your horns![a]

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Footnotes

  1. 75:5 Do not raise your horns!: the horn is the symbol of strength; to raise one’s horn is to exalt one’s own power as Ps 75:5 explains.

Do not lift your horns against heaven;
    do not speak so defiantly.(A)’”

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Chapter 12

You would be in the right, O Lord,
    if I should dispute with you;
    even so, I must lay out the case against you.
Why does the way of the wicked prosper,
    why do all the treacherous live in contentment?(A)

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Jeremiah’s Complaint

12 You are always righteous,(A) Lord,
    when I bring a case(B) before you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:(C)
    Why does the way of the wicked prosper?(D)
    Why do all the faithless live at ease?

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