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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KJV ³¹ For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

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

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

KJV ³⁴ To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KJV ⁴⁶ All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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