^{1 Ref} I `am' the man `who' hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

^{2 Ref} Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

^{3 Ref} Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.

^{4 Ref} He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.

^{5 Ref} He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

^{6 Ref} In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

^{7 Ref} He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

^{8 Ref} Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

^{9 Ref} He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

^{10 Ref} A bear lying in wait He `is' to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.

^{11 Ref} My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

^{12 Ref} He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

^{13 Ref} He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.

^{14 Ref} I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.

^{15 Ref} He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood.

^{16 Ref} And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

^{17 Ref} And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.

^{18 Ref} And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

^{19 Ref} Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!

^{20 Ref} Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.

^{21 Ref} This I turn to my heart -- therefore I hope.

^{22 Ref} The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.

^{23 Ref} New every morning, abundant `is' thy faithfulness.

^{24 Ref} My portion `is' Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.

^{25 Ref} Good `is' Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul `that' seeketh Him.

^{26 Ref} Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

^{27 Ref} Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.

^{28 Ref} He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid `it' upon him.

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

^{30 Ref} He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach.

^{31 Ref} For the Lord doth not cast off to the age.

^{32 Ref} For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.

^{33 Ref} For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men.

^{34 Ref} To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth,

³⁵ To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,

^{36 Ref} To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved.

^{37 Ref} Who `is' this -- he hath said, and it is, `And' the Lord hath not commanded `it'?

^{38 Ref} From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.

^{39 Ref} What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?

^{40 Ref} We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.

^{41 Ref} We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.

^{42 Ref} We -- we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou -- Thou hast not forgiven.

^{43 Ref} Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain -- Thou hast not pitied.

^{44 Ref} Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.

^{45 Ref} Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.

^{46 Ref} Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.

^{47 Ref} Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.

^{48 Ref} Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

^{49 Ref} Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission,

^{50 Ref} Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,

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

^{52 Ref} Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.

^{53 Ref} They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.

^{54 Ref} Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.

^{55 Ref} I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.

^{56 Ref} My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing -- at my cry.

^{57 Ref} Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee, Thou hast said, Fear not.

^{58 Ref} Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.

^{59 Ref} Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause.

^{60 Ref} Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.

^{61 Ref} Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me,

^{62 Ref} The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.

^{63 Ref} Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I `am' their song.

^{64 Ref} Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands.

^{65 Ref} Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them.

^{66 Ref} Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!

^{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.

^{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.