1 I
2 He hath led me, and brought
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5 He hath builded against me, and compassed
6 He hath set me in dark places, as
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.
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10 He
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.
14 I was a derision to all my people;
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with 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.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the
19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul hath
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22 It is of
23 They are
24 The
25 The
26 It is
27 It is
28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
30 He giveth
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.
33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
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,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
37 Who
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the
41 Let us lift up our heart with
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that
45 Thou hast made us
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.
49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
50 Till the
51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head;
55 I called upon thy name, O
56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 Thou drewest near in the day
58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
59 O
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I
64 Render unto them a recompence, O
65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the