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

<>hath seen affliction, <>his wrath

2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

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

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

<>gall

6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

<>dead

7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

<>v. 8

9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

<>my ways, <>hewn, <>he hath made my paths crooked

10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

<>secret places

11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

<>v. 13

14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

<>I was … their song

15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

<>drunken, <>wormwood

16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

<>thou hast removed my soul far off from peace, <>peace, <>prosperity

18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

<>v. 18, <>hope

19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

<>vv. 19-21

20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

<>vv. 19-21

21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

<>vv. 19-21

22 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

<>vv. 22-23, <>It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, <>the LORD'S mercies

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

<>vv. 22-23

24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

<>The LORD is my portion, <>The LORD … I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

<>The LORD is good, <>The LORD … wait for him, <>The LORD is good … to the soul that seeketh him., <>The LORD … the soul that seeketh him, <>unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

<>v. 26, <>salvation

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

<>v. 27, <>his youth

28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

<>v. 29

30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

<>He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him

31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

<>though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion

33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

<>children

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

<>vv. 35-36, <>v. 35

36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

<>vv. 35-36, <>v. 36

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

<>v. 37

38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

<>v. 38

39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

<>v. 39

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

<>v. 40, <>Let us search and try our ways, <>turn again to the LORD

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

<>Let us lift up … our hands unto God, <>Let us lift up our … hands unto God

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

<>We … have rebelled, <>transgressed, <>thou hast not pardoned

43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

<>persecuted

44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

<>v. 44, <>Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud

45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

<>vv. 48-49

49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

<>vv. 48-49

50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

<>Mine eye affecteth mine heart, <>city

52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

<>Mine enemies chased me sore … without cause.

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

54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

<>I called upon thy name, O LORD

56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

<>Thou hast heard my voice, <>hide not thine ear … at my cry

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

<>Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee

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

<>O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul, <>thou hast redeemed my life, <>redeemed

59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

<>my cause

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

<>their imaginations

61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

<>their device, <>device

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

<>Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, <>I am their musick.

64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

<>the heavens of the LORD

1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

<>How is the gold become dim!, <>fine gold, <>the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street

2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

<>precious sons … the work of the hands of the potter!, <>earthen pitchers, <>the potter

3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

<>the daughter of my people is become cruel

4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

<>child … children, <>thirst, <>the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them, <>young, <>bread

5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

<>embrace dunghills, <>embrace

6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

<>v. 6, <>Sodom … was overthrown, <>overthrown as in a moment

7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

<>they are not known in the streets

9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

<>stricken through for want, <>want

10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

<>The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat, <>sodden, <>the destruction of the daughter of my people

11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

<>he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire, <>foundations

12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

<>inhabitants, <>the adversary and the enemy … entered into the gates of Jerusalem, <>adversary, <>the gates

13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

<>vv. 13-14

14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

<>vv. 13-14, <>garments

15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

<>Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not

16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

<>The anger of the LORD hath divided them, <>they favoured not the elders

17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

<>eyes as yet failed, <>eyes … failed, <>vain help, <>we have watched for a nation that could not save us

18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

<>They hunt our steps, <>our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come

19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

<>Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles, <>persecutors

20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

<>The breath of our nostrils, <>The breath of our nostrils … was taken, <>anointed, <>Under his shadow we shall live

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

<>thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked, <>drunken

22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

<>into captivity, <>he will discover thy sins, <>discover

1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

<>inheritance, <>strangers, <>our houses to aliens, <>aliens

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

<>v. 3

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

<>We have drunken our water for money

5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

<>persecution, <>we labour, and have no rest

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

<>bread

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

<>Our fathers have sinned, and are not, <>Our fathers have sinned … and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

<>Servants have ruled over us, <>ruled over, <>there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

<>famine

11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

<>cities

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

<>the faces of elders were not honoured

13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

<>v. 13, <>young men, <>children

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

<>The elders have ceased from the gate, <>the gate, <>the young men from their musick

15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

<>our dance is turned into mourning

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

<>woe unto us, that we have sinned!, <>we have sinned

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

<>faint

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

<>Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

<>Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.