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