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¹ I, am the man, that hath seen affliction, by the rod of his indignation;² Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;³ Surely, against me, doth he again and again, turn his hand all the day.⁴ He hath worn out my flesh and my skin, hath broken my bones;⁵ He hath built up against me, and carried round me, fortifications and a trench;⁶ In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.⁷ He hath walled up around me, that I cannot get out, hath weighted my fetter;⁸ Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;⁹ He hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back.¹⁰ A bear lying in wait, he is to me, a lion, in secret places;¹¹ My ways, hath he turned aside, and hath torn me in pieces, hath made me desolate;¹² He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, as a mark for the arrow.¹³ He hath caused to enter my reins, the sons of his quiver;¹⁴ I have become a derision to all my people, their song all the day;¹⁵ He hath sated me with bitter things, hath drenched me with wormwood.¹⁶ And he hath crushed, with gravel-stones, my teeth, hath made me cower in ashes;¹⁷ And thou hast thrust away from welfare, my soul, I have forgotten prosperity;¹⁸ And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.¹⁹ Remember my humiliation and my fleeings, the wormwood and poison;²⁰ Thou wilt, indeed remember, that, bowed down concerning myself, is my soul;

²¹ This, will I bring back to my heart, therefore, will I hope.²² The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, verily they are not exhausted, Verily! not at an end, are his compassions:²³ New things for the mornings! Abundant is thy faithfulness:²⁴ My portion, is Yahweh, saith my soul, For this cause, will I wait for him.²⁵ Good is Yahweh, to them who wait for him, to the soul that will seek him;²⁶ Good it is - both to wait and to be silent, for the deliverance of Yahweh;²⁷ Good it is for a man, that he should bear the yoke in his youth.²⁸ Let him sit alone, and keep silence, because he took it upon himself:²⁹ Let him put, in the dust, his mouth, peradventure, there is hope!³⁰ Let him give, to him that smiteth him, his cheek, let him be sated with reproach.³¹ Surely My Lord, will not cast off, unto times age-abiding;³² Surely, though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses;³³ Surely he hath not afflicted from his heart, nor caused sorrow to the sons of men.³⁴ To crush, under his feet, any of the prisoners of the earth;³⁵ To turn aside the right of a man, before the face of the Most High;³⁶ To oppress a son of earth in his cause, My Lord, hath made no provision.

³⁷ Who was it that spake, and it was done, when , My Lord, had not commanded?³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High, Proceed there not misfortunes and blessing?³⁹ Why should a living son of earth complain, Let a man complain because of his sins?⁴⁰ Let us search out our ways, and examine them well, and let us return unto Yahweh;⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart, to the opened palms, to the Mighty One in the heavens;

⁴² We, have trespassed and rebelled, Thou, hast not pardoned.⁴³ Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us, hast slain - hast not spared;⁴⁴ Thou hast screened thyself with the clouds, that prayer, should not pass through;⁴⁵ Offscouring and refuse, dost thou make us, in the midst of the peoples.⁴⁶ With their mouth, opened wide over us, stand all our foes.⁴⁷ Terror and a pit, have befallen us, tumult and grievous injury;⁴⁸ With streams of water, mine eye runneth down, over the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.⁴⁹ Mine eye, poureth itself out and ceaseth not, without relief;⁵⁰ Until Yahweh out of the heavens shall look forth, and see,⁵¹ Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.⁵² They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause:⁵³ They have cut off, in the dungeon, my life, and have cast a stone upon me;⁵⁴ Waters, flowed over, my head, I said, I am cut off!

⁵⁵ I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below;⁵⁶ My voice, thou hast heard, - do not close thine ear to my respite, to mine outcry;⁵⁷ Thou drewest near, in the day I kept calling on thee, thou saidst, Do not fear!⁵⁸ Thou hast pleaded, O My Lord, the pleas of my soul, hast redeemed my life;⁵⁹ Thou hast beheld, O Yahweh, my failure to get justice, Pronounce thou my sentence;⁶⁰ Thou hast seen all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me.⁶¹ Thou hast heard their reproach, O Yahweh, all their plots against me;⁶² The lips of mine assailants, and their mutterings, are against me, all the day;⁶³ On their downsitting and their uprising, do thou look, I, am their song.⁶⁴ Thou wilt render to them a recompense, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands;⁶⁵ Thou wilt suffer them a veiling of heart, thy curse to them;⁶⁶ Thou wilt pursue in anger, and wilt destroy them, from under the heavens of Yahweh.