1I am the man that hath seen affliction in the rod of his indignation.
2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not to light.
3Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4My flesh and my skin hath he caused to wax old, and he hath broken my bones.
5He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor.
6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead forever.
7He hath hedged about me, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chains heavy.
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9He hath stopped up my ways with hewn stone, and turned away my paths.
10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
11He hath stopped my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12He hath bent his bow, and made me a mark for the arrow.
13He caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
14I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
15He hath filled me with bitterness, and made me drunken with wormwood.
16He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath covered me with ashes.
17Thus my soul was far off from peace: I forgot prosperity,
18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord,
19Remembering mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormwood and the gall.
20My soul hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21I consider this in mine heart: therefore have I hope.
22It is the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23They are renewed every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24The Lord is my portion, saith my soul: therefore will I hope in him.
25The Lord is good unto them that trust in him, and to the soul that seeketh him.
26It is good both to trust, and to wait for the salvation of the Lord.
27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
29He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope.
30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproaches.
31For the Lord will not forsake forever.
32But though he send affliction, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33For he doth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children of men,
34In stamping under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
35In overthrowing the right of a man before the face of the most High,
36In subverting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not.
37Who is he then that saith, and it cometh to pass, and the Lord commandeth it not?
38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
39Wherefore then is the living man sorrowful? man suffereth for his sin.
40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
41Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42We have sinned, and have rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.
43Thou hast covered us with wrath, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, and not spared.
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
47Fear, and a snare is come upon us with desolation and destruction.
48Mine eye casteth out rivers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49Mine eye droppeth without stay, and ceaseth not,
50Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
51Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53They have shut up my lifein the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54Waters flowed over mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.
55I called upon thy Name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
56Thou hast heard my voice: stop not thine ear from my sigh, and from my cry.
57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidest, Fear not.
58O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my soul, and hast redeemed my life.
59O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong, judge thou my cause.
60Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their devises against me:
61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me.
62The lips also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.
63Behold, their sitting down, and their rising up, how I am their song.
64Give them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
65Give them sorrow of heart even thy curse to them.
66Persecute with wrath and destroy them from under the heaven, O Lord.