1 - I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 - He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3 - Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
4 - My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5 - He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6 - He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
7 - He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
8 - Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
9 - He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
10 - He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
11 - He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
12 - He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 - He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
14 - I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
15 - He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
16 - He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
17 - And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
18 - And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
19 - Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 - My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
21 - This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
22 - [It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 - They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
24 - Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 - Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26 - It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
27 - It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 - Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.
29 - Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
30 - Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.
31 - For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
32 - For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
33 - For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
34 - 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 - To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
37 - Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
38 - Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
39 - Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 - Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
41 - Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42 - We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
43 - Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44 - Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
45 - Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
46 - All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
47 - Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
48 - Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 - Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
50 - Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
51 - Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
52 - They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
53 - They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
54 - Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
55 - I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
56 - Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 - Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.
58 - O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
59 - O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.
60 - Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
61 - Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
62 - The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63 - Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
64 - Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
65 - Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.
66 - Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.