1I, am the man, that hath seen affliction, by the rod of his indignation; 2Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light; 3Surely, against me, doth he again and again, turn his hand all the day. 4He hath worn out my flesh and my skin, hath broken my bones; 5He hath built up against me, and carried round me, fortifications and a trench; 6In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times. 7He hath walled up around me, that I cannot get out, hath weighted my fetter; 8Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer; 9He hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back. 10A bear lying in wait, he is to me, a lion, in secret places; 11My ways, hath he turned aside, and hath torn me in pieces, hath made me desolate; 12He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, as a mark for the arrow. 13He hath caused to enter my reins, the sons of his quiver; 14I have become a derision to all my people, their song all the day; 15He hath sated me with bitter things, hath drenched me with wormwood. 16And he hath crushed, with gravel-stones, my teeth, hath made me cower in ashes; 17And thou hast thrust away from welfare, my soul, I have forgotten prosperity; 18And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh. 19Remember my humiliation and my fleeings, the wormwood and poison; 20Thou wilt, indeed remember, that, bowed down concerning myself, is my soul; 21 This, will I bring back to my heart, therefore, will I hope. 22The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, verily they are not exhausted, Verily! not at an end, are his compassions: 23New things for the mornings! Abundant is thy faithfulness: 24My portion, is Yahweh, saith my soul, For this cause, will I wait for him. 25Good is Yahweh, to them who wait for him, to the soul that will seek him; 26Good it is—both to wait and to be silent, for the deliverance of Yahweh; 27Good it is for a man, that he should bear the yoke in his youth. 28Let him sit alone, and keep silence, because he took it upon himself: 29Let him put, in the dust, his mouth, peradventure, there is hope! 30Let him give, to him that smiteth him, his cheek, let him be sated with reproach. 31Surely My Lord, will not cast off, unto times age-abiding; 32Surely, though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses; 33Surely he hath not afflicted from his heart, nor caused sorrow to the sons of men. 34To crush, under his feet, any of the prisoners of the earth; 35To turn aside the right of a man, before the face of the Most High; 36To 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? 38Out of the mouth of the Most High, Proceed there not misfortunes and blessing? 39Why should a living son of earth complain, [Let] a man [complain] because of his sins? 40Let us search out our ways, and examine them well, and let us return unto Yahweh; 41Let 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. 43Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us, hast slain—hast not spared; 44Thou hast screened thyself with the clouds, that prayer, should not pass through; 45Offscouring and refuse, dost thou make us, in the midst of the peoples. 46With their mouth, opened wide over us, [stand] all our foes. 47Terror and a pit, have befallen us, tumult and grievous injury; 48With streams of water, mine eye runneth down, over the grievous injury of the daughter of my people. 49Mine eye, poureth itself out and ceaseth not, without relief; 50Until Yahweh out of the heavens shall look forth, and see, 51Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. 52They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause: 53They have cut off, in the dungeon, my life, and have cast a stone upon me; 54Waters, flowed over, my head, I said, I am cut off! 55 I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below; 56My voice, thou hast heard,—do not close thine ear to my respite, to mine outcry; 57Thou drewest near, in the day I kept calling on thee, thou saidst, Do not fear! 58Thou hast pleaded, O My Lord, the pleas of my soul, hast redeemed my life; 59Thou hast beheld, O Yahweh, my failure to get justice, Pronounce thou my sentence; 60Thou hast seen all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me. 61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Yahweh, all their plots against me; 62The lips of mine assailants, and their mutterings, are against me, all the day; 63On their downsitting and their uprising, do thou look, I, am their song. 64Thou wilt render to them a recompense, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands; 65Thou wilt suffer them a veiling of heart, thy curse to them; 66Thou wilt pursue in anger, and wilt destroy them, from under the heavens of Yahweh.