3:1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

3:2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

3:3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

3:6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

3:7 He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

3:8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

3:9 He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

3:10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as 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 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 hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me 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 forgat prosperity.

3:18 And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

3:19 Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

3:21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

3:22 [It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that 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 a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.

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 hath laid it upon 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 that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

3:32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

3:33 For he doth 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 approveth not.

3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

3:38 Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not 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 God in the heavens.

3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

3:43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

3:44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

3:45 Thou hast 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 upon us, devastation and destruction.

3:48 Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction 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 heaven.

3:51 Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

3:52 They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

3:54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

3:55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

3:56 Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

3:58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

3:59 O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, 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 Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

3:64 Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

3:65 Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

3:66 Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.