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

2 H e hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3 S urely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

4 M y flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

5 H e hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

6 H e hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

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

8 A lso when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

9 H e hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

10 H e was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

11 H e hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

12 H e hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 H e 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 H e hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

16 H e hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

17 A nd thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

18 A nd I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

19 r emembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

20 M y soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

21 T his I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

22 I t is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23 T hey are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 T he Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 T he Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26 I t is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

27 I t is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28 H e sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

29 H e putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

30 H e giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

31 F or the Lord will not cast off for ever:

32 b ut though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33 F or he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

34 T o crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35 t o turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

36 t o subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

37 W ho is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

38 O ut of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

39 W herefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 L et us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

41 L et us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

42 W e have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

43 T hou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44 T hou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

45 T hou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

46 A ll our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 F ear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

48 M ine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 M ine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

50 t ill the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

51 M ine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

52 M ine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

53 T hey have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

54 W aters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

55 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

56 T hou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 T hou 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 T hou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

61 T hou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

62 t he lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63 B ehold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

64 R ender unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

65 G ive them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

66 P ersecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.