1 - I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.
2 - By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
3 - Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
4 - My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
5 - He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
6 - He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
7 - 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 - Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
9 - He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
10 - He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
11 - By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
12 - With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
13 - He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
14 - I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
15 - He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
16 - By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
17 - My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
18 - And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
19 - Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
20 - My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
21 - This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.
22 - It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
23 - They are new every morning; great is your good faith.
24 - I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.
25 - The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.
26 - It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
27 - It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
28 - Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
29 - Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
30 - Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.
31 - For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.
32 - For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
33 - For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.
34 - 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 - In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.
37 - Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
38 - Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
39 - What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
40 - Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
41 - Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
42 - We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
43 - Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
44 - Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
45 - You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.
46 - The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.
47 - Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.
48 - Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 - My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
50 - Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.
51 - The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
52 - They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
53 - They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
54 - Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
55 - I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
56 - My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
57 - You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.
58 - O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.
59 - O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.
60 - You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.
61 - Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;
62 - The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.
63 - Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.
64 - You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.
65 - You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.
66 - You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.