1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.studyinterlinear
2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.studyinterlinear
3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.studyinterlinear
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.studyinterlinear
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.studyinterlinear
6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.studyinterlinear
7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.studyinterlinear
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.studyinterlinear
9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.studyinterlinear
10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.studyinterlinear
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.studyinterlinear
12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.studyinterlinear
13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.studyinterlinear
14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.studyinterlinear
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.studyinterlinear
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.studyinterlinear
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.studyinterlinear
18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:studyinterlinear
19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.studyinterlinear
20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.studyinterlinear
21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.studyinterlinear
22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.studyinterlinear
23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.studyinterlinear
24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.studyinterlinear
25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.studyinterlinear
26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.studyinterlinear
27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.studyinterlinear
28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.studyinterlinear
29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.studyinterlinear
30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.studyinterlinear
31For the Lord will not cast off for ever:studyinterlinear
32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.studyinterlinear
33For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.studyinterlinear
34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,studyinterlinear
35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,studyinterlinear
36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.studyinterlinear
37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?studyinterlinear
38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?studyinterlinear
39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?studyinterlinear
40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.studyinterlinear
41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.studyinterlinear
42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.studyinterlinear
43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.studyinterlinear
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.studyinterlinear
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.studyinterlinear
46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.studyinterlinear
47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.studyinterlinear
48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.studyinterlinear
49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,studyinterlinear
50Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.studyinterlinear
51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.studyinterlinear
52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.studyinterlinear
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.studyinterlinear
54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.studyinterlinear
55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.studyinterlinear
56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.studyinterlinear
57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.studyinterlinear
58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.studyinterlinear
59O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.studyinterlinear
60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.studyinterlinear
61Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;studyinterlinear
62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.studyinterlinear
63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.studyinterlinear
64Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.studyinterlinear
65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.studyinterlinear
66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.studyinterlinear