MLV(i)
1 I am the man who 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 he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.
4 He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
5 He has built against me and encompassed me with gall and travail.
6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have been dead of old.
7 He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. 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 hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed 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 reins. 14 I have become a laughing-stock 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 And you have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. 18 And I said, My strength has perished and my expectation from Jehovah.
19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul still has them in remembrance and is bowed down within me.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope: 22 It is of Jehovah's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail. 23 They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. 24 Jehovah is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.
25 Jehovah is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. 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 upon him. 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, perhaps there may be hope. 30 Let him give his cheek to him who slays him. Let him be filled full with reproach.
31 For the Lord will not cast off everlasting. 32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. 33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons 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 does not approve.
37 Who is he that says and it happens, when the Lord does not command it? 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good?
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 Jehovah. 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 slain; 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 upon 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 does not cease, without any intermission, 50 till Jehovah looks down and beholds from heaven. 51 My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
52 They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. 53 They have cut off my life in the pit and have cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon your name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest pit. 56 You heard my voice. Do not hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 You drew near in the day that I called upon you. You said, Do not fear.
58 O Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life. 59 O Jehovah, you have seen my wrong. Judge you my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. 61 You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah and all their devices against me, 62 the lips of those who rose up against me and their meditation is against me all the day. 63 Behold their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
64 You will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.
7 He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. 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 hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed 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 reins. 14 I have become a laughing-stock 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 And you have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity. 18 And I said, My strength has perished and my expectation from Jehovah.
19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul still has them in remembrance and is bowed down within me.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope: 22 It is of Jehovah's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail. 23 They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. 24 Jehovah is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.
25 Jehovah is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. 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 upon him. 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, perhaps there may be hope. 30 Let him give his cheek to him who slays him. Let him be filled full with reproach.
31 For the Lord will not cast off everlasting. 32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. 33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons 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 does not approve.
37 Who is he that says and it happens, when the Lord does not command it? 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good?
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 Jehovah. 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 slain; 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 upon 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 does not cease, without any intermission, 50 till Jehovah looks down and beholds from heaven. 51 My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
52 They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. 53 They have cut off my life in the pit and have cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon your name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest pit. 56 You heard my voice. Do not hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 You drew near in the day that I called upon you. You said, Do not fear.
58 O Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life. 59 O Jehovah, you have seen my wrong. Judge you my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. 61 You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah and all their devices against me, 62 the lips of those who rose up against me and their meditation is against me all the day. 63 Behold their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
64 You will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, 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 Jehovah.