¹ I am the man who 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 he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.

⁴ He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

⁵ He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail.

⁶ He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead.

⁷ He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.

⁸ Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.

¹⁰ He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed 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 reins.

¹⁴ I have 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 And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Jehovah.

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

²⁰ My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

²¹ This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:

²² It is of Jehovah's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.

²³ They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.

²⁴ Jehovah is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.

²⁵ Jehovah is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks 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 has 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 who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.

³¹ For the Lord will not cast off forever.

³² For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

³³ For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons 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 does not approve.

³⁷ Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?

³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good?

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 Jehovah.

⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

⁴² We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.

⁴³ Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.

⁴⁴ Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

⁴⁵ Thou 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 have come upon 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 does not cease, without any intermission,

⁵⁰ till Jehovah looks down, and beholds from heaven.

⁵¹ My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

⁵² They have chased me grievously 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 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 heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

⁵⁷ Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not.

⁵⁸ O Lord, thou have pleaded the causes of my soul. Thou have redeemed my life.

⁵⁹ O Jehovah, thou have seen my wrong. Judge thou my cause.

⁶⁰ Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

⁶¹ Thou have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,

⁶² the lips of those who 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 will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

⁶⁵ Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.

⁶⁶ Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.