^{1 Ref} I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

^{2 Ref} He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

^{3 Ref} Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

^{4 Ref} My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

^{5 Ref} He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

^{6 Ref} He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

^{7 Ref} He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

^{8 Ref} Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

^{9 Ref} He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

^{10 Ref} He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

^{11 Ref} He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

^{12 Ref} He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

^{13 Ref} He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

^{14 Ref} I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

^{15 Ref} He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

^{16 Ref} He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

^{17 Ref} And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

^{18 Ref} And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

^{19 Ref} Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

^{20 Ref} My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

^{21 Ref} This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

^{22 Ref} `It is of' Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

^{23 Ref} They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

^{24 Ref} Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

^{25 Ref} Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

^{26 Ref} It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.

^{27 Ref} It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

^{28 Ref} Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

^{29 Ref} Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

^{30 Ref} Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

^{31 Ref} For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

^{32 Ref} For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

^{33 Ref} For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

^{34 Ref} 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 Ref} To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

^{37 Ref} Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

^{38 Ref} Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?

^{39 Ref} Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

^{40 Ref} Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

^{41 Ref} Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

^{42 Ref} We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

^{43 Ref} Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

^{44 Ref} Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

^{45 Ref} Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

^{46 Ref} All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

^{47 Ref} Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

^{48 Ref} Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

^{49 Ref} Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

^{50 Ref} Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.

^{51 Ref} Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

^{52 Ref} They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

^{53 Ref} They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

^{54 Ref} Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

^{55 Ref} I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

^{56 Ref} Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

^{57 Ref} Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

^{58 Ref} O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

^{59 Ref} O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

^{60 Ref} Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

^{61 Ref} Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,

^{62 Ref} The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

^{63 Ref} Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

^{64 Ref} Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

^{65 Ref} Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

^{66 Ref} Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.