¹ I, the man, have seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

² He led me and made me go in darkness and not light.

³ Surely He turned against me; He turns His hand all the day.

⁴ He has wasted my flesh and my skin. He has shattered my bones.

⁵ He built against me and has put around me bitterness and hardship.

⁶ He has made me live in dark places like the dead of old.

⁷ He walled around me and I cannot go out; He has made heavy my bronze chain .

⁸ Also, when I cry out and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer.

⁹ He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are crooked.

¹⁰ He was a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in secret places.

¹¹ He has deflected my ways and torn me to pieces; He made me desolate.

¹² He has trod His bow and set me up as a mark for the arrow.

¹³ He caused the sons of His quiver to enter into my inward parts.

¹⁴ I was a mockery to all my people, their song all the day.

¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.

¹⁶ And He broke my teeth with gravel; He has covered me in the ashes.

¹⁷ And You cast off my soul from peace; I have forgotten goodness.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength and my hope are gone from Jehovah.

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my roaming, as wormwood and bitterness.

²⁰ My soul vividly remembers and bows down on me.

²¹ I bring back this to my heart. On account of this I hope.

²² It is by the kindnesses of Jehovah that we are not consumed, for His mercies are not ended.

²³ They are new by mornings; great is Your faithfulness.

²⁴ Jehovah is my portion, says my soul. On account of this I shall hope to Him.

²⁵ Jehovah is good to those waiting on Him, to the soul seeking Him.

²⁶ It is good that a man hopes for the salvation of Jehovah, even in silence.

²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear a yoke in his youth.

²⁸ He sits alone and is silent, for He laid it on him.

²⁹ He puts his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there is hope.

³⁰ He gives his cheek to Him who strikes him; he is filled with reproach.

³¹ For the Lord will not cast off forever.

³² For though He causes grief, He will have pity according to His many kindnesses.

³³ For He does not afflict from His heart, nor does He grieve the sons of man,

³⁴ to crush all the prisoners of earth under His feet,

³⁵ to turn aside the justice of a man before the face of the Most High,

³⁶ to wrong a man in his cause. This, the Lord does not see.

³⁷ Who is this speaking, and it happens when the Lord does not command it?

³⁸ Both the evil and the good do not go out from the mouth of the Most High.

³⁹ What? Should mankind complain, living man because of his sins?

⁴⁰ Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart and palms to God in Heaven.

⁴² We have transgressed and rebelled; You, You have not forgiven.

⁴³ You have wrapped Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have slain; You have not pitied.

⁴⁴ You have covered with a cloud for You, from any prayer passing through.

⁴⁵ You have made us sweepings and garbage in the midst of the peoples.

⁴⁶ All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

⁴⁷ Dread and a pit is ours, devastation and ruin.

⁴⁸ Streams of water go out of my eye for the ruin of the daughter of my people.

⁴⁹ My eye flows out and does not cease, from there not being any relaxing,

⁵⁰ until Jehovah shall look down and see from Heaven.

⁵¹ My eye deals severely with my soul, from all the daughters of my city.

⁵² My haters have hunted me like a bird without cause.

⁵³ They have cut off my life in the pit, and they threw a stone at me.

⁵⁴ Waters flowed over on my head; I said, I am cut off.

⁵⁵ I called on Your name, O Jehovah, from the lowest pit.

⁵⁶ You have heard my voice; do not hide Your ear at my relief, at my cry for help.

⁵⁷ You came near in the day I called You; you said, Do not fear!

⁵⁸ O Lord, You contended for the causes of my soul; You redeemed my life.

⁵⁹ You have seen my wrong, O Jehovah; judge my cause.

⁶⁰ You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.

⁶¹ You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their plots against me,

⁶² the lips of those rising up against me, and their scheming against me all the day.

⁶³ Look at their sitting and their rising up. I am their song.

⁶⁴ You will give back a recompense to them, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

⁶⁵ You will give them an insolent heart as Your curse to them.

⁶⁶ Pursue and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of Jehovah.