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¹ I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

² Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.

³ Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.

⁴ My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.

⁵ He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.

⁶ He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.

⁷ He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

⁸ Even 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 is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, 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 am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.

¹⁵ He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk 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 have forgotten prosperity.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.

¹⁹ Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

²⁰ My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

²¹ —This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.

²² It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness 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 one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.

²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:

²⁸ He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;

²⁹ he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be 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 if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:

³³ for he doth not willingly afflict or 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 wrong a man in his cause,—will not the Lord see it?

³⁷ Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?

³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed 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 thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.

⁴⁴ Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.

⁴⁵ Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

⁴⁶ All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.

⁴⁷ Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.

⁴⁸ Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin 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 the heavens.

⁵¹ Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

⁵² They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.

⁵³ They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me.

⁵⁴ Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

⁵⁵ I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.

⁵⁶ Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.

⁵⁷ Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

⁵⁸ Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.

⁵⁹ Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

⁶⁰ Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.

⁶¹ Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;

⁶² the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day.

⁶³ Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.

⁶⁴ Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;

⁶⁵ give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;

⁶⁶ pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.