• 1. I Am the man that hath seene affliction by the rod of his wrath.
  • 2. He hath led me and brought mee into darkenesse, but not into light.
  • 3. Surely against me is he turned, he turneth his hand against me all the day.
  • 4. My flesh and my skinne hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.
  • 5. He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and trauel.
  • 6. He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead of old.
  • 7. He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: hee hath made my chaine heauie.
  • 8. Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
  • 9. Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.
  • 10. He was vnto me as a Beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.
  • 11. Hee hath turned aside my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: hee hath made me desolate.
  • 12. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow.
  • 13. Hee hath caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.
  • 14. I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
  • 15. Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.
  • 16. He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.
  • 17. And thou hast remoued my soule farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie.
  • 18. And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
  • 19. Remembring mine affliction and my miserie, the wormewood & the gall.
  • 20. My soule hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
  • 21. This I recall to my mind, therefore haue I hope.
  • 22. It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
  • 23. They are newe euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.
  • 24. The Lord is my portion, sayth my soule, therefore will I hope in him.
  • 25. The Lord is good vnto them that waite for him, to the soule that seeketh him.
  • 26. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the saluation of the Lord.
  • 27. It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth.
  • 28. Hee sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because hee hath borne it vpon him.
  • 29. He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
  • 30. Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him, hee is filled full with reproch.
  • 31. For the Lord will not cast off for euer.
  • 32. But though hee cause griefe, yet will hee haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
  • 33. For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieue the children of men.
  • 34. To crush vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,
  • 35. To turne aside the right of a man before the face of the most high,
  • 36. To subuert a man in his cause, the Lord approoueth not.
  • 37. Who is hee that sayth, and it commeth to passe, when the Lord commandeth it not?
  • 38. Out of the mouth of the most hie proceedeth not euill and good?
  • 39. Wherefore doeth a liuing man complaine, a man for the punishment of his sinnes?
  • 40. Let vs search and try our waies, and turne againe to the Lord.
  • 41. Let vs lift vp our heart with our hands vnto God in the heauens.
  • 42. We haue transgressed, and haue rebelled, thou hast not pardoned.
  • 43. Thou hast couered with anger, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine, thou hast not pitied.
  • 44. Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloud, that our prayer should not passe through.
  • 45. Thou hast made vs as the offscouring and refuse in the middest of the people.
  • 46. All our enemies haue opened their mouthes against vs.
  • 47. Feare and a snare is come vpon vs, desolation and destruction.
  • 48. Mine eye runneth downe with riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • 49. Mine eye trickleth downe and ceaseth not, without any intermission:
  • 50. Till the Lord looke downe, and behold from heauen.
  • 51. Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.
  • 52. Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird, without cause.
  • 53. They haue cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.
  • 54. Waters flowed ouer mine head, then I sayd, I am cut off.
  • 55. I called vpon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
  • 56. Thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine eare at my breathing, at my crie.
  • 57. Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saidst, Feare not.
  • 58. O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soule, thou hast redeemed my life.
  • 59. O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.
  • 60. Thou hast seene all their vengeance; and all their imaginations against me.
  • 61. Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:
  • 62. The lippes of those that rose vp against me, and their deuice against me all the day.
  • 63. Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, I am their musicke.
  • 64. Render vnto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the worke of their hands.
  • 65. Giue them sorrow of heart, thy curse vnto them.
  • 66. Persecute and destroy them in anger, from vnder the heauens of the Lord.