1I am the man who has seen affliction…
2He has led me and caused me to…
3Surely he turns his hand against me again…
4He has made my flesh and my skin…
5He has built against me, and surrounded me…
6He has made me dwell in dark places,…
7He has walled me about, so that I…
8Yes, when I cry, and call for help,…
9He has walled up my ways with cut…
10He is to me as a bear lying…
11He has turned away my path, and pulled…
12He has bent his bow, and set me…
13He has caused the shafts of his quiver…
14I have become a derision to all my…
15He has filled me with bitterness. He has…
16He has also broken my teeth with gravel.…
17You have removed my soul far away from…
18I said, “My strength has perished, along with…
19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood…
20My soul still remembers them, and is bowed…
21This I recall to my mind; therefore I…
22It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses…
23They are new every morning. Great is your…
24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul.…
25The LORD is good to those who wait…
26It is good that a man should hope…
27It is good for a man that he…
28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because…
29Let him put his mouth in the dust,…
30Let him give his cheek to him who…
31For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32For though he causes grief, yet he will…
33For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve…
34To crush under foot all the prisoners of…
35to turn away the right of a man…
36to subvert a man in his cause, the…
37Who is he who says, and it comes…
38Doesn’t evil and good come out of the…
39Why should a living man complain, a man…
40Let us search and try our ways, and…
41Let’s lift up our heart with our hands…
42“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have…
43“You have covered us with anger and pursued…
44You have covered yourself with a cloud, so…
45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse…
46“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide…
47Terror and the pit have come on us,…
48My eye runs down with streams of water,…
49My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without…
50until the LORD looks down, and sees from…
51My eye affects my soul, because of all…
52They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,…
53They have cut off my life in the…
54Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I…
55I called on your name, LORD, out of…
56You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear…
57You came near in the day that I…
58Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my…
59LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my…
60You have seen all their vengeance and all…
61You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all…
62the lips of those that rose up against…
63You see their sitting down and their rising…
64You will pay them back, LORD, according to…
65You will give them hardness of heart, your…
66You will pursue them in anger, and destroy…
