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[1]I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
[2]He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
[3]Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
[4]My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
[5]He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor.
[6]He hath set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old.
[7]He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
[8]Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
[9]He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
[10]He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and 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 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
[14]I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
[15]He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken 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 and my hope hath perished from the LORD:
[19]Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
[20]My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
[21]This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
[22]It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
[23]They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
[24]The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
[25]The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
[26]It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
[27]It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth.
[28]He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
[29]He putteth his mouth in the dust; if there may be hope.
[30]He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
[31]For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
[32]But though he causeth grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
[33]For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
[34]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]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 proceedeth not evil and good?
[39]Why 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 the LORD.
[41]Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
[42]We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
[43]Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
[44]Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
[45]Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
[46]All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
[47]Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
[48]My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
[49]My eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
[50]Till the LORD shall look down, and behold from heaven.
[51]My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
[52]My enemies chased me fiercely, like a bird without cause.
[53]They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
[54]Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
[55]I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
[56]Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thy 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 LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
[60]Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
[61]Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
[62]The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
[63]Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
[64]Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
[65]Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse to them.
[66]Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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