I am the man who has aseen
affliction
Because of the rod
of His wrath
.
He has driven me and made me walk
In adarkness
and not in light
.
Surely against me He has aturned
His hand
Repeatedly
all
the day
.
He has caused my aflesh and my skin
to waste
away
, He has bbroken
my bones
.
He has abesieged and encompassed
me with bbitterness
and hardship
.
In adark places
He has made me dwell
, Like those who have long
been dead
.
He has awalled me in so that I cannot
go
out; He has made
my 1 bchain
heavy
.
Even when
I cry
out and call
for help
, He ashuts
out my prayer
.
He has ablocked my ways
with hewn
stone
; He has made
my paths
crooked
.
He is to me like a bear lying
in wait
, Like a lion
in secret
places
.
He has turned aside
my ways
and atorn
me to pieces
; He has made
me desolate
.
He abent His bow
And bset
me as a target
for the arrow
.
He made the 1arrows of His aquiver
To enter
into my 2inward
parts
.
I have become a alaughingstock
to all
my people
, Their mocking bsong
all
the day
.
He has afilled me with bitterness
, He has made
me drunk
with wormwood
.
He has abroken my teeth
with bgravel
; He has made me cower
in the cdust
.
My soul has been
rejected
afrom peace
; I have forgotten
1happiness
.
So I say, "My strength
has perished
, And so has my ahope
from the LORD
."
Remember my affliction
and my 1wandering
, the awormwood
and bitterness
.
Surely amy soul
remembers
And is bbowed
down
within
me.
This I recall
to my mind
, Therefore
I have
ahope
.
The LORD'S alovingkindnesses
1indeed
never
cease
, bFor His compassions
never
fail
.
They are new aevery morning
; Great
is bYour faithfulness
.
"The LORD is my aportion
," says
my soul
, "Therefore
I bhave
hope
in Him."
The LORD is good
to those who await
for Him, To the 1person
who bseeks
Him.
It is good that he awaits
silently
For the salvation
of the LORD
.
It is good for a man
that he should bear
The yoke
in his youth
.
Let him asit alone
and be silent
Since
He has laid
it on him.
Let him 1put his mouth
in the adust
, Perhaps
there
is bhope
.
Let him give his acheek
to 1the smiter
, Let him be filled
with reproach
.
For the Lord will anot reject
forever
,
For if He causes
grief
, Then He will have
acompassion
According to His abundant
lovingkindness
.
For He adoes not afflict 1willingly
Or grieve
the sons
of men
.
To crush under
His feet
All
the prisoners
of the 1land
,
To 1deprive a man
of ajustice
In the presence
of the Most
High
,
To 1 adefraud a man
in his lawsuit
-- Of these things the Lord
does not 2approve
.
Who is 1there
who speaks
and it acomes
to pass
, Unless
the Lord
has commanded
it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most
High
That 1 aboth good
and ill
go
forth
?
Why should any living
1mortal
, or any man
, Offer
acomplaint
2in view
of his sins
?
Let us aexamine and probe
our ways
, And let us return
to the LORD
.
We alift up our heart
1and hands
Toward
God
in heaven
;
We have atransgressed and rebelled
, You have bnot pardoned
.
You have covered Yourself with aanger
And bpursued
us; You have slain
and chave not spared
.
You have acovered Yourself with a cloud
So
that bno
prayer
can pass
through
.
You have made us mere aoffscouring
and refuse
In the midst
of the peoples
.
All our enemies
have aopened
their mouths
against
us.
aPanic and pitfall
have befallen
us, Devastation
and destruction
;
My 1 aeyes run
down
with streams
of water
Because
of the destruction
of the daughter
of my people
.
My eyes pour
down
aunceasingly
, Without
stopping
,
Until the LORD
alooks
down
And sees
from heaven
.
My eyes bring
pain
to my soul
Because
of all
the daughters
of my city
.
My enemies awithout
cause
Hunted
me down
blike a bird
;
They have silenced 1me ain the pit
And have 2 bplaced
a stone
on me.
Waters flowed
aover
my head
; I said
, "I am cut
off
!"
I acalled on Your name
, O LORD
, Out of the lowest
pit
.
You have aheard my voice
, " bDo not hide
Your ear
from my prayer for relief
, From my cry
for help
."
You adrew near
when
I called
on You; You said
, " bDo not fear
!"
O Lord, You ahave pleaded
my soul's
cause
; You have bredeemed
my life
.
O LORD, You have aseen
my oppression
; bJudge
my case
.
You have seen all
their vengeance
, All
their aschemes
against me.
You have heard their areproach
, O LORD
, All
their schemes
against
me.
The alips of my assailants
and their whispering
Are against
me all
day
long.
Look on their asitting
and their rising
; bI am their mocking
song
.
You will arecompense them, O LORD
, According to the work
of their hands
.
You will give them 1 ahardness
of heart
, Your curse
will be on them.
You will apursue them in anger
and destroy
them From under
the bheavens
of the LORD
!