| 1 | I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
| 2 | Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light. |
| 3 | Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day. |
| 4 | My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones. |
| 5 | He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil. |
| 6 | He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead. |
| 7 | He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. |
| 8 | Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. |
| 9 | He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. |
| 10 | He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, 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 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. |
| 14 | I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day. |
| 15 | He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk 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 have forgotten prosperity. |
| 18 | And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah. |
| 19 | Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall. |
| 20 | My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me. |
| 21 | -- This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope. |
| 22 | It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness 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 one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah. |
| 27 | It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth: |
| 28 | He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him; |
| 29 | he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope; |
| 30 | he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach. |
| 31 | For the Lord will not cast off for ever; |
| 32 | but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses: |
| 33 | for he doth not willingly afflict or 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 wrong a man in his cause,—will not the Lord see it? |
| 37 | Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded? |
| 38 | Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed 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 thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared. |
| 44 | Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through. |
| 45 | Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
| 46 | All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. |
| 47 | Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin. |
| 48 | Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin 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 the heavens. |
| 51 | Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
| 52 | They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird. |
| 53 | They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me. |
| 54 | Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| 55 | I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit. |
| 56 | Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry. |
| 57 | Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not. |
| 58 | Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life. |
| 59 | Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. |
| 60 | Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me. |
| 61 | Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me; |
| 62 | the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day. |
| 63 | Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song. |
| 64 | Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands; |
| 65 | give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them; |
| 66 | pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah. |