^{1 Ref} I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

^{2 Ref} By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

^{3 Ref} Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

^{4 Ref} My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

^{5 Ref} He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

^{6 Ref} He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

^{7 Ref} He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

^{8 Ref} Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

^{9 Ref} He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

^{10 Ref} He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

^{11 Ref} By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

^{12 Ref} With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

^{13 Ref} He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

^{14 Ref} I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

^{15 Ref} He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

^{16 Ref} By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

^{17 Ref} My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

^{18 Ref} And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

^{19 Ref} Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

^{20 Ref} My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

^{21 Ref} This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.

^{22 Ref} It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.

^{23 Ref} They are new every morning; great is your good faith.

^{24 Ref} I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.

^{25 Ref} The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.

^{26 Ref} It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

^{27 Ref} It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

^{28 Ref} Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.

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

^{30 Ref} Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.

^{31 Ref} For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.

^{32 Ref} For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.

^{33 Ref} For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.

^{34 Ref} In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

³⁵ In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.

^{36 Ref} In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.

^{37 Ref} Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

^{38 Ref} Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

^{39 Ref} What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

^{40 Ref} Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

^{41 Ref} Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.

^{42 Ref} We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

^{43 Ref} Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

^{44 Ref} Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.

^{45 Ref} You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

^{46 Ref} The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

^{47 Ref} Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

^{48 Ref} Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

^{49 Ref} My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,

^{50 Ref} Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.

^{51 Ref} The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.

^{52 Ref} They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;

^{53 Ref} They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

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

^{55 Ref} I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.

^{56 Ref} My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.

^{57 Ref} You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.

^{58 Ref} O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.

^{59 Ref} O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.

^{60 Ref} You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.

^{61 Ref} Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;

^{62 Ref} The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.

^{63 Ref} Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.

^{64 Ref} You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.

^{65 Ref} You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.

^{66 Ref} You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.