You have shown your people desperate times;(A)
    you have given us wine that makes us stagger.(B)

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Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

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(A)You have shown Your people hard things;
(B)You have made us drink the wine of [a]confusion.

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  1. Psalm 60:3 staggering

23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,(A)
    who said to you,
    ‘Fall prostrate(B) that we may walk(C) on you.’
And you made your back like the ground,
    like a street to be walked on.”(D)

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23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

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23 (A)But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
Who have said to [a]you,
‘Lie down, that we may walk over you.’
And you have laid your body like the ground,
And as the street, for those who walk over.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:23 Lit. your soul