- 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.
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