⁴ He has aged ^(A)my flesh and my skin,
And ^(B)broken my bones.
⁵ He has besieged me
And surrounded me with bitterness and ^[a]woe.
^6 (C)He has set me in dark places
Like the dead of long ago.

^7 (D)He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
⁸ Even ^(E)when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.
⁹ He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.

^10 (F)He has been to me a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in ^[b]ambush.
¹¹ He has turned aside my ways and ^(G)torn me in pieces;
He has made me desolate.
¹² He has bent His bow
And ^(H)set me up as a target for the arrow.

¹³ He has caused ^(I)the ^[c]arrows of His quiver
To pierce my ^[d]loins.
¹⁴ I have become the ^(J)ridicule of all my people—
^(K)Their taunting song all the day.
^15 (L)He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink wormwood.

¹⁶ He has also broken my teeth ^(M)with gravel,
And ^[e]covered me with ashes.
¹⁷ You have moved my soul far from peace;
I have forgotten ^[f]prosperity.
^18 (N)And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the Lord.”

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and roaming,
^(O)The wormwood and the ^[g]gall.
²⁰ My soul still remembers
And ^[h]sinks within me.
²¹ This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have ^(P)hope.

^22 (Q)Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions ^(R)fail not.
²³ They are new ^(S)every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
²⁴ “The Lord is my ^(T)portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I ^(U)hope in Him!”

²⁵ The Lord is good to those who ^(V)wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.
²⁶ It is good that one should ^(W)hope ^(X)and wait quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.
^27 (Y)It is good for a man to bear
The yoke in his youth.

^28 (Z)Let him sit alone and keep silent,
Because God has laid it on him;
^29 (AA)Let him put his mouth in the dust—
There may yet be hope.
^30 (AB)Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him,
And be full of reproach.

^31 (AC)For the Lord will not cast off forever.
³² Though He causes grief,
Yet He will show compassion
According to the multitude of His mercies.
³³ For ^(AD)He does not afflict ^[i]willingly,
Nor grieve the children of men.

³⁴ To crush under one’s feet
All the prisoners of the earth,
³⁵ To turn aside the justice due a man
Before the face of the Most High,
³⁶ Or subvert a man in his cause—
^(AE)The Lord does not approve.

³⁷ Who is he ^(AF)who speaks and it comes to pass,
When the Lord has not commanded it?
³⁸ Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That ^(AG)woe and well-being proceed?
^39 (AH)Why should a living man ^[j]complain,
^(AI)A man for the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰ Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the Lord;
^41 (AJ)Let us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.
^42 (AK)We have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.

⁴³ You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and not pitied.
⁴⁴ You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
That prayer should not pass through.
⁴⁵ You have made us an ^(AL)offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.

^46 (AM)All our enemies
Have opened their mouths against us.
^47 (AN)Fear and a snare have come upon us,
^(AO)Desolation and destruction.
^48 (AP)My eyes overflow with rivers of water
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

^49 (AQ)My eyes flow and do not cease,
Without interruption,
⁵⁰ Till the Lord from heaven
^(AR)Looks down and sees.
⁵¹ My eyes bring suffering to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.

⁵² My enemies ^(AS)without cause
Hunted me down like a bird.
⁵³ They ^[k]silenced my life ^(AT)in the pit
And ^(AU)threw ^[l]stones at me.
^54 (AV)The waters flowed over my head;
^(AW)I said, “I am cut off!”

^55 (AX)I called on Your name, O Lord,
From the lowest ^(AY)pit.
^56 (AZ)You have heard my voice:
“Do not hide Your ear
From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
⁵⁷ You ^(BA)drew near on the day I called on You,
And said, ^(BB)“Do not fear!”

⁵⁸ O Lord, You have ^(BC)pleaded the case for my soul;
^(BD)You have redeemed my life.
⁵⁹ O Lord, You have seen ^[m]how I am wronged;
^(BE)Judge my case.
⁶⁰ You have seen all their vengeance,
All their ^(BF)schemes against me.

⁶¹ You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
All their schemes against me,
⁶² The lips of my enemies
And their whispering against me all the day.
⁶³ Look at their ^(BG)sitting down and their rising up;
I am their taunting song.

^64 (BH)Repay them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.
⁶⁵ Give them ^[n]a veiled heart;
Your curse be upon them!
⁶⁶ In Your anger,
Pursue and destroy them
^(BI)From under the heavens of the ^(BJ)Lord.