| 3.1 |
I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
| 3.2 |
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. |
| 3.3 |
Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day. |
| 3.4 |
My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones. |
| 3.5 |
He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail. |
| 3.6 |
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. |
| 3.7 |
He has walled me about, that I can’t go out; he has made my chain heavy. |
| 3.8 |
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. |
| 3.9 |
He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked. |
| 3.10 |
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. |
| 3.11 |
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate. |
| 3.12 |
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
| 3.13 |
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys. |
| 3.14 |
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. |
| 3.15 |
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood. |
| 3.16 |
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes. |
| 3.17 |
You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity. |
| 3.18 |
I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh. |
| 3.19 |
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
| 3.20 |
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. |
| 3.21 |
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. |
| 3.22 |
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. |
| 3.23 |
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. |
| 3.24 |
Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him. |
| 3.25 |
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. |
| 3.26 |
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh. |
| 3.27 |
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. |
| 3.28 |
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him. |
| 3.29 |
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. |
| 3.30 |
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach. |
| 3.31 |
For the Lord will not cast off forever. |
| 3.32 |
For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. |
| 3.33 |
For he does not afflict willingly, nor 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 subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve. |
| 3.37 |
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it? |
| 3.38 |
Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? |
| 3.39 |
Why does 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 Yahweh. |
| 3.41 |
Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. |
| 3.42 |
We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned. |
| 3.43 |
You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied. |
| 3.44 |
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. |
| 3.45 |
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
| 3.46 |
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. |
| 3.47 |
Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction. |
| 3.48 |
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 3.49 |
My eye pours down, and doesn’t cease, without any intermission, |
| 3.50 |
Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven. |
| 3.51 |
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
| 3.52 |
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. |
| 3.53 |
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. |
| 3.54 |
Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| 3.55 |
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon. |
| 3.56 |
You heard my voice; don’t hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
| 3.57 |
You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don’t be afraid. |
| 3.58 |
Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life. |
| 3.59 |
Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause. |
| 3.60 |
You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. |
| 3.61 |
You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me, |
| 3.62 |
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. |
| 3.63 |
You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. |
| 3.64 |
You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands. |
| 3.65 |
You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them. |
| 3.66 |
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh. |
