I<\/span> AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>For the LORD will not cast off for ever:<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,<\/span> <\/p>\n 36<\/sup>To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.<\/span> <\/p>\n 37<\/sup>Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?<\/span> <\/p>\n 38<\/sup>Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?<\/span> <\/p>\n 39<\/sup>Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?<\/span> <\/p>\n 40<\/sup>Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.<\/span> <\/p>\n 41<\/sup>Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.<\/span> <\/p>\n 42<\/sup>We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.<\/span> <\/p>\n 43<\/sup>Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.<\/span> <\/p>\n 44<\/sup>Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.<\/span> <\/p>\n 45<\/sup>Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.<\/span> <\/p>\n 46<\/sup>All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.<\/span> <\/p>\n 47<\/sup>Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.<\/span> <\/p>\n 48<\/sup>Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.<\/span> <\/p>\n 49<\/sup>Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.<\/span> <\/p>\n 50<\/sup>Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.<\/span> <\/p>\n 51<\/sup>Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.<\/span> <\/p>\n 52<\/sup>Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.<\/span> <\/p>\n 53<\/sup>They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 54<\/sup>Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.<\/span> <\/p>\n 55<\/sup>I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.<\/span> <\/p>\n 56<\/sup>Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.<\/span> <\/p>\n 57<\/sup>Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.<\/span> <\/p>\n 58<\/sup>O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.<\/span> <\/p>\n 59<\/sup>O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.<\/span> <\/p>\n 60<\/sup>Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 61<\/sup>Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;<\/span> <\/p>\n 62<\/sup>The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.<\/span> <\/p>\n 63<\/sup>Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.<\/span> <\/p>\n 64<\/sup>Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.<\/span> <\/p>\n 65<\/sup>Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.<\/span> <\/p>\n 66<\/sup>Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.<\/span> <\/p>\n