[It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.

My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.

My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

For the Lord will not cast off forever.

Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.

You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.

You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.

My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.

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

You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

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

You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.

You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,

You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.