WeBible

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 out; 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.