[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 offscouring 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.
