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3I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
²He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
³Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
⁴My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
⁶He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
⁷He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
⁸Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
⁹He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
¹⁰He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
¹¹He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
¹²He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
¹³He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
¹⁴I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
¹⁵He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
¹⁶He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
¹⁷And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
¹⁸And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
²⁰My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
²¹This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
²²It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
²⁴The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
²⁵The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
²⁶It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
²⁸He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
³⁰He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
³¹For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
³²But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
³³For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
³⁴To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
³⁵To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
³⁶To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
³⁷Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
³⁸Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
⁴¹Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
⁴²We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.