• 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.