1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.

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

2 He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3 Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains.

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

8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

10 He is like a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding.

He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

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

12 He has bent His bow and made me the target for His arrows.

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He has pierced my inward parts with the arrows from His quiver.

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

14 I have become the laughingstock of all my people; their mocking song all day long.

I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink wormwood.

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

18 So I say, 'My strength is gone, and so is my hope from the LORD.'

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

19 Remember my affliction and my wandering—the bitterness and the gall.

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

20 Surely my soul remembers and is bowed down within me.

My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

21 Yet this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

22 Because of the LORD’s steadfast love we are not consumed, for His mercies never end.

It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness.

They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore I will hope in Him.

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26 It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28 Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

29 Let him put his mouth in the dust—there may yet be hope.

He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who strikes him, and let him be filled with disgrace.

He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

31 For the Lord will not reject forever.

For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

32 For though He causes grief, He will show compassion according to the abundance of His steadfast love.

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

33 For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35 to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High,

To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

36 to subvert a person in their cause—the Lord does not approve.

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

37 Who can speak and have it come to pass, unless the Lord has decreed it?

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

38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good come?

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

42 We have transgressed and rebelled, and You have not forgiven.

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

43 You have covered Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have slain without pity.

Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

48 Streams of water run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 My eyes pour without ceasing, without relief,

Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

50 until the LORD looks down and sees from heaven.

Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

51 My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

52 My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

53 They threw me alive into a pit and cast a stone upon me.

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

54 Waters flowed over my head; I thought, 'I am cut off.'

Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

55 I called on Your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit.

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

56 You heard my plea: 'Do not close Your ear to my cry for relief.'

Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 You came near when I called on You, and You said, 'Do not fear.'

Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

58 You have pleaded my cause, O Lord; You have redeemed my life.

O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

59 You have seen my wrong, O LORD; judge my case.

O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

60 You have seen all their vengeance, all their plans against me.

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

61 You have heard their insults, O LORD, all their plots against me.

Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

62 The lips of my adversaries and their murmuring are against me all day long.

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

63 Look at their sitting and their rising; I am the subject of their mocking song.

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

64 Repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them hardness of heart; may Your curse be upon them.

Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.