²⁸ I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

⁹ I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

² For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

⁷ "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

³ He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we didn't respect him.

⁴ Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

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