| 1 | I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
| 2 | He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. |
| 3 | Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day. |
| 4 | My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones. |
| 5 | He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail. |
| 6 | He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. |
| 7 | He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy. |
| 8 | Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. |
| 9 | He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked. |
| 10 | He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. |
| 11 | He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate. |
| 12 | He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
| 13 | He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys. |
| 14 | I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. |
| 15 | He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood. |
| 16 | He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes. |
| 17 | You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity. |
| 18 | I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh. |
| 19 | Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
| 20 | My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. |
| 21 | This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. |
| 22 | It is because of Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail. |
| 23 | They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. |
| 24 | Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him. |
| 25 | Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. |
| 26 | It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh. |
| 27 | It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. |
| 28 | Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him. |
| 29 | Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. |
| 30 | Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach. |
| 31 | For the Lord will not cast off forever. |
| 32 | For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. |
| 33 | For he does not afflict willingly, nor 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 subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve. |
| 37 | Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it? |
| 38 | Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? |
| 39 | Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
| 40 | Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. |
| 41 | Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. |
| 42 | We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned. |
| 43 | You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied. |
| 44 | You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. |
| 45 | You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
| 46 | All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. |
| 47 | Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction. |
| 48 | My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 49 | My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission, |
| 50 | Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven. |
| 51 | My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
| 52 | They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. |
| 53 | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. |
| 54 | Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| 55 | I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon. |
| 56 | You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
| 57 | You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid. |
| 58 | Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life. |
| 59 | Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause. |
| 60 | You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. |
| 61 | You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me, |
| 62 | The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. |
| 63 | You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. |
| 64 | You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands. |
| 65 | You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them. |
| 66 | You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh. |
