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

^{2 Ref} He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

^{3 Ref} Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me 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 set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

^{7 Ref} He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

^{8 Ref} Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

^{9 Ref} He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

^{10 Ref} He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and 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 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

^{14 Ref} I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

^{15 Ref} He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken 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 and my hope is perished from the LORD:

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

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

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

^{22 Ref} It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

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

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

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

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

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

^{28 Ref} He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

^{29 Ref} He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

^{30 Ref} He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

^{31 Ref} For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

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

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

^{34 Ref} To crush under his feet 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 proceedeth 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 the LORD.

^{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 persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

^{44 Ref} Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

^{45 Ref} Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

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

^{47 Ref} Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

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

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

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

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

^{52 Ref} Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

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

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

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

^{56 Ref} Thou hast heard 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 LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

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

^{61 Ref} Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

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

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

^{64 Ref} Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

^{65 Ref} Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

^{66 Ref} Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.