3:1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
3:2 Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light. |
3:3 Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day. |
3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones. |
3:5 He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil. |
3:6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead. |
3:7 He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. |
3:8 Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. |
3:9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. |
3:10 He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places. |
3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. |
3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. |
3:14 I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day. |
3:15 He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood. |
3:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. |
3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity. |
3:18 And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah. |
3:19 Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall. |
3:20 My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me. |
3:21 -- This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope. |
3:22 It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not; |
3:23 they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. |
3:24 Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. |
3:25 Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him. |
3:26 It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah. |
3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth: |
3:28 He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him; |
3:29 he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope; |
3:30 he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach. |
3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever; |
3:32 but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses: |
3:33 for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men. |
3:34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, |
3:35 to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, |
3:36 to wrong a man in his cause, -- will not the Lord see it? |
3:37 Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded? |
3:38 Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good? |
3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. |
3:41 Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto ùGod in the heavens. |
3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. |
3:43 Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared. |
3:44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through. |
3:45 Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. |
3:47 Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin. |
3:48 Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people. |
3:49 Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, |
3:50 till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens. |
3:51 Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
3:52 They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird. |
3:53 They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me. |
3:54 Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
3:55 I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit. |
3:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry. |
3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not. |
3:58 Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life. |
3:59 Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. |
3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me. |
3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me; |
3:62 the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day. |
3:63 Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song. |
3:64 Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands; |
3:65 give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them; |
3:66 pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah. |