3 : 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 3 : 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 : 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me 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 set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 3 : 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. 3 : 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 3 : 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. 3 : 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and 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 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 3 : 14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. 3 : 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken 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 and my hope is perished from the Lord: 3 : 19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 3 : 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. 3 : 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 3 : 22 It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 3 : 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 3 : 24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 3 : 25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 3 : 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. 3 : 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 3 : 28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. 3 : 29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. 3 : 30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. 3 : 31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever: 3 : 32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. 3 : 33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. 3 : 34 To crush under his feet 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 proceedeth 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 the Lord. 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 persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 3 : 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 3 : 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 3 : 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 3 : 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 3 : 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 3 : 49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 3 : 50 Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven. 3 : 51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. 3 : 52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. 3 : 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. 3 : 54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. 3 : 55 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. 3 : 56 Thou hast heard 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 Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. 3 : 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. 3 : 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me; 3 : 62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. 3 : 63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick. 3 : 64 Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands. 3 : 65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. 3 : 66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.