• 1. I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
  • 2. He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
  • 3. Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
  • 4. My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
  • 5. He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.
  • 6. He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
  • 7. He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
  • 8. Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
  • 9. He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
  • 10. He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
  • 11. He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
  • 12. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
  • 13. He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
  • 14. I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
  • 15. He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
  • 16. He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
  • 17. You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
  • 18. I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
  • 19. Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
  • 20. My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
  • 21. This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
  • 22. [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
  • 23. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
  • 24. Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
  • 25. Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
  • 26. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
  • 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 has laid it on 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 who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
  • 31. For the Lord will not cast off forever.
  • 32. For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
  • 33. For he does 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 doesn't approve.
  • 37. Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
  • 38. Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
  • 39. Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
  • 40. Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
  • 41. Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
  • 42. We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.
  • 43. You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.
  • 44. You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
  • 45. You have made us an off-scouring 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 on us, devastation and destruction.
  • 48. My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • 49. My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
  • 50. Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.
  • 51. My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
  • 52. They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
  • 53. They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
  • 54. Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
  • 55. I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
  • 56. You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
  • 57. You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.
  • 58. Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
  • 59. Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause.
  • 60. You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
  • 61. You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, 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. See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
  • 64. You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
  • 65. You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
  • 66. You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.