| 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 compassed 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 forth; 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 hewn 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 reins. |
| 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 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 will he 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 are 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 sore 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 you 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: See you 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. |
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