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| [1]ALEPH. I am the man that sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me. |
[1]I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie |
| [2]He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not into light. |
[2]He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light |
| [3]Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day. |
[3]Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me |
| [4]He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones. |
[4]My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised |
| [5]BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail upon me. |
[5]He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile |
| [6]He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead. |
[6]He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer |
| [7]He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen chain heavy. |
[7]He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me |
| [8]GIMEL. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer. |
[8]Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer |
| [9]DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths; |
[9]He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked |
| [10]he has troubled me, as a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me as a lion in secret places. |
[10]He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare, and as a lion in a hole |
| [11]He pursued me after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me. |
[11]He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether |
| [12]HE. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
[12]He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at |
| [13]He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. |
[13]The arrowes of his quiuer hath he shot, euen into my reynes |
| [14]I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day. |
[14]I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long |
| [15]VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall. |
[15]He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke |
| [16]And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes. |
[16]He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust |
| [17]He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity. |
[17]He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges |
| [18]Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord. |
[18]I thought in my selfe, I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the Lorde |
| [19]ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered; |
[19]O remember yet my miserie and my trouble, the wormewood and the gall |
| [20]and my soul shall meditate with me. |
[20]Yea thou shalt remember them, for my soule melteth away in me |
| [21]This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure. |
[21]Whyle I consider these thinges in my heart, I get a hope agayne |
| [22]HETH. It is the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity us, O Lord, early every month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted. |
[22][namely] it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed, for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed |
| [23]They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. |
[23]Newe mercyes shall the Lord shewe vpon thee early in the day springing, (O Lorde) great is thy faythfulnesse |
| [24]The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for him. |
[24]The Lorde is my portion saith my soule therefore wyll I hope in hym |
| [25]TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him |
[25]O howe good is the Lord vnto them that put their trust in hym, and to the soule that seeketh after hym |
| [26]is good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord. |
[26]The good man with stilnesse and pacience, taryeth for the health of the Lorde |
| [27]TETH. It is good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth. |
[27]O howe good is it for a man to take the yoke vpon him from his youth vp |
| [28]He will sit alone, and be silent, because he has borne it upon him. |
[28]He sitteth alone, he holdeth hym styll, because he hath taken [the Lordes yoke] vpon hym |
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[29]He layeth his face vpon the earth, if there happen to be any hope |
| [30]JOD. He will give his cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches. |
[30]He offreth his cheeke to the smyter, he wyll be content with reproffes |
| [31]For the Lord will not reject for ever. |
[31]For the Lord wil not forsake for euer |
| [32]CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and that according to the abundance of his mercy. |
[32]But though he punishe, yet according to the multitude of his mercies he receaueth to grace agayne |
| [33]He has not answered in anger from his heart, though he has brought low the children of a man. |
[33]For he doth not plague willingly, and afflict the chyldren of men |
| [34]LAMED. To bring down under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, |
[34]To treade all the prysoners of the earth vnder his feete |
| [35]to turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High, |
[35]To moue the iudgement of man before the most highest |
| [36]to condemn a man unjustly in his judgment, the Lord has not given commandment. |
[36]To condemne a man in his cause: the Lord hath not pleasure in such thinges |
| [37]Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? the Lord has not commanded it. |
[37]What is he then that saith, there should some thing be done without the Lordes commaundement |
| [38]Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good. |
[38]Out of the mouth of the most highest goeth not euyll and good |
| [39]MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin? |
[39]Wherefore then murmureth the liuing man? let hym murmure at his owne sinne |
| [40]NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord. |
[40]Let vs looke well vpon our wayes, and remember our selues, and turne agayne to the Lorde |
| [41]Let us lift up our hearts with our hand to the lofty One in heaven. |
[41]Let vs lift our heartes with our handes vnto the Lorde that is in heauen |
| [42]We have sinned, we have transgressed; and thou hast not pardoned. |
[42]We haue ben dissemblers and haue offended, wylt thou therefore not be intreated |
| [43]SAMECH. Thou has visited us in wrath, and driven us away: thou has slain, thou has not pitied. |
[43]Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slayne vs without any fauour |
| [44]Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind, |
[44]Thou hast hid thy selfe in a cloude, that our prayer should not go through |
| [45]and be cast off. AIN. Thou hast set us alone in the midst of the nations. |
[45]Thou hast made vs outcastes, and to be despised among the people |
| [46]All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. |
[46]All our enemies gape vpon vs |
| [47]Fear and wrath are come upon us, suspense and destruction. |
[47]Feare and pit is come vpon vs, yea deceipt and destruction |
| [48]Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
[48]Whole riuers of water gushe out of mine eyes for the hurt of my people |
| [49]PHE. Mine eye is drowned with tears, and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest, |
[49]Myne eyes runne and cannot ceasse, for there is no rest |
| [50]until the Lord look down, and behold from heaven. |
[50]O Lorde, when wylt thou looke downe from heauen and consider |
| [51]Mine eye shall prey upon my soul, because of all the daughters of the city. |
[51]Mine eyes breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my citie |
| [52]TSADE. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause, |
[52]Mine enemies hunted me out sharply like a byrde, yea & that without a cause |
| [53]and laid a stone upon me. |
[53]They haue put downe my life into a pit, and they haue cast stones vpon me |
| [54]Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off. |
[54]They haue powred water vpon my head: then thought I, nowe am I vndone |
| [55]KOPH. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon. |
[55]I called vpon thy name O Lorde out of the deepe pit |
| [56]Thou heardest my voice: close not thine ears to my supplication. |
[56]Thou hast heard my voyce, and hast not turned away thyne eares from my sighing and crying |
| [57]Thou drewest nigh to my help: in the day wherein I called upon thee thou saidst to me, Fear not. |
[57]Thou hast inclyned thy selfe vnto me when I called vpon thee: and hast said, feare not |
| [58]RECHS. O Lord, thou has pleaded the causes of my soul; thou has redeemed my life. |
[58]Thou (O Lorde) hast mayntayned the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my lyfe |
| [59]Thou hast seen, O Lord, my troubles: thou hast judged my cause. |
[59]O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, take thou my cause vpon thee |
| [60]Thou hast seen all their vengeance, thou hast looked on all their devices against me. |
[60]Thou hast well considered howe they go about to do me harme, and that all their counsels are against me |
| [61]CHSEN. Thou hast heard their reproach and all their devices against me; |
[61]Thou hast hearde their despitefull wordes O Lorde, yea and all the imaginations against me |
| [62]the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day; |
[62]The lippes of mine enemies, and their deuises that they take against me al the day long |
| [63]their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes. |
[63]Thou seest also their sitting downe and their rising vp, they make their songes of nothing but of me |
| [64]Thou wilt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. |
[64]Rewarde them, O Lorde, according to the workes of their handes |
| [65]THAU. Thou wilt give them as a covering, the grief of my heart. |
[65]Geue them an obstinate heart, euen thy curse |
| [66]Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord. |
[66]Persecute them O Lorde with thyne indignation, and roote them out from vnder the heauen |