| 1 | I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
| 2 | He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. |
| 3 | Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day. |
| 4 | My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. |
| 5 | He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. |
| 6 | He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. |
| 7 | He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy. |
| 8 | Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer. |
| 9 | He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. |
| 10 | He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. |
| 11 | He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. |
| 12 | He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
| 13 | He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. |
| 14 | I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. |
| 15 | He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood. |
| 16 | He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes. |
| 17 | And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity. |
| 18 | And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah. |
| 19 | Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
| 20 | My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me. |
| 21 | This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. |
| 22 | [It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. |
| 23 | They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. |
| 24 | Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. |
| 25 | Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. |
| 26 | It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. |
| 27 | It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. |
| 28 | Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. |
| 29 | Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. |
| 30 | Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach. |
| 31 | For the Lord will not cast off for ever. |
| 32 | For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. |
| 33 | For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. |
| 34 | To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, |
| 35 | To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, |
| 36 | To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. |
| 37 | Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
| 38 | Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good? |
| 39 | Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
| 40 | Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. |
| 41 | Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. |
| 42 | We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned. |
| 43 | Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. |
| 44 | Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. |
| 45 | Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
| 46 | All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. |
| 47 | Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction. |
| 48 | Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 49 | Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, |
| 50 | Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven. |
| 51 | Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
| 52 | They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. |
| 53 | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. |
| 54 | Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| 55 | I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon. |
| 56 | Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
| 57 | Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not. |
| 58 | O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. |
| 59 | O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause. |
| 60 | Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. |
| 61 | Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me, |
| 62 | The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. |
| 63 | Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. |
| 64 | Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands. |
| 65 | Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them. |
| 66 | Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah. |