| 3:1 |
I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath. |
| 3:2 |
By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light. |
| 3:3 |
Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day. |
| 3:4 |
My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken. |
| 3:5 |
He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. |
| 3:6 |
He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead. |
| 3:7 |
He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain. |
| 3:8 |
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out. |
| 3:9 |
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted. |
| 3:10 |
He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places. |
| 3:11 |
By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste. |
| 3:12 |
With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows. |
| 3:13 |
He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body. |
| 3:14 |
I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day. |
| 3:15 |
He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure. |
| 3:16 |
By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust. |
| 3:17 |
My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good. |
| 3:18 |
And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord. |
| 3:19 |
Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison. |
| 3:20 |
My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me. |
| 3:21 |
This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope. |
| 3:22 |
It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit. |
| 3:23 |
They are new every morning; great is your good faith. |
| 3:24 |
I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him. |
| 3:25 |
The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him. |
| 3:26 |
It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord. |
| 3:27 |
It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young. |
| 3:28 |
Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him. |
| 3:29 |
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope. |
| 3:30 |
Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame. |
| 3:31 |
For the Lord does not give a man up for ever. |
| 3:32 |
For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love. |
| 3:33 |
For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men. |
| 3:34 |
In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, |
| 3:35 |
In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High. |
| 3:36 |
In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure. |
| 3:37 |
Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord? |
| 3:38 |
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High? |
| 3:39 |
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin? |
| 3:40 |
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord; |
| 3:41 |
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens. |
| 3:42 |
We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness. |
| 3:43 |
Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity; |
| 3:44 |
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through. |
| 3:45 |
You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples. |
| 3:46 |
The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us. |
| 3:47 |
Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction. |
| 3:48 |
Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 3:49 |
My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest, |
| 3:50 |
Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven. |
| 3:51 |
The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town. |
| 3:52 |
They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird; |
| 3:53 |
They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones. |
| 3:54 |
Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| 3:55 |
I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison. |
| 3:56 |
My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry. |
| 3:57 |
You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear. |
| 3:58 |
O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe. |
| 3:59 |
O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause. |
| 3:60 |
You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me. |
| 3:61 |
Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me; |
| 3:62 |
The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day. |
| 3:63 |
Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song. |
| 3:64 |
You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands. |
| 3:65 |
You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them. |
| 3:66 |
You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord. |
