30. Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.Let him be filled full of reproach.
31. For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32. For though he causes grief,yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
33. For he does not afflict willingly,nor grieve the children of men.
34. To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
35. to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36. to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
37. Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,when the Lord doesn’t command it?
38. Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
39. Why does a living man complain,a man for the punishment of his sins?
40. Let us search and try our ways,and turn again to the Lord.
41. Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
42. “We have transgressed and have rebelled.You have not pardoned.
43. “You have covered us with anger and pursued us.You have killed.You have not pitied.
44. You have covered yourself with a cloud,so that no prayer can pass through.
45. You have made us an off-scouring and refusein the middle of the peoples.
46. “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
47. Terror and the pit have come on us,devastation and destruction.”