3 I am the gever that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

² He hath driven me away, and brought me into choshech, but not into ohr.

³ Surely against me is He turned; He turneth His yad against me kol hayom.

⁴ My basar and my ohr (skin) hath He made old; He hath broken my atzmot.

⁵ He hath set up seigeworks against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

⁶ He hath set me in dark places, like the mesei olam (long dead).

⁷ He hath hedged me about, that I cannot escape; He hath made my chain heavy.

⁸ Also when I cry and call out, He shutteth out my tefillah.

⁹ He hath barred my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.

¹⁰ He was unto me like a dov (bear) lying in wait, and like an aryeh in mistarim (hiding places).

¹¹ He hath turned aside the darkhei of mine, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.

¹² He hath bent His keshet, and set me as a target for the khetz (arrow).

¹³ He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my organs.

¹⁴ I was a derision to kol ami; and their [mocking] song kol hayom.

¹⁵ He hath filled me with merorim (bitter herbs); He hath made me drunk with suffering.

¹⁶ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel, He hath covered me with aphar.

¹⁷ And Thou hast removed my nefesh far off from shalom; I forgot tovah (prosperity).

¹⁸ And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from Hashem;

¹⁹ Remember mine oni (affliction) and my misery, the sorrow and the trouble.

²⁰ My nefesh hath them still in remembrance, and is downcast in me.

²¹ This I recall to my lev, therefore have I hope:

²² Because of the chasdei Hashem we are not consumed, for His rachamim fail not.

²³ They are chadashim every boker; great is Thy faithfulness.

²⁴ Hashem is my chelek, saith my nefesh; therefore in hope will I wait for Him.

²⁵ Hashem is tov unto them that wait for Him, to the nefesh that seeketh Him.

²⁶ It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the Teshu’at Hashem.

²⁷ It is tov for a gever that he bear the ol (yoke) from his youth.

²⁸ He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because He hath laid it upon him.

²⁹ He putteth his mouth in the aphar; there may yet be tikvah.

³⁰ He offereth his lekhi (cheek) to him that striketh him; he is filled full with reproach [Isa 50:6].

³¹ For Adonoi will not cast off l’olam (forever);

³² But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the rov chasadav (the multitude of His mercies).

³³ For He doth not afflict willingly nor bring grief to Bnei Ish.

³⁴ To crush under His feet kol asirei eretz (all the prisoners of the earth),

³⁵ To turn aside the mishpat gever (the right of a man) before the face of Elyon,

³⁶ To subvert a man in his cause, Adonoi approveth not.

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

³⁸ Out of the mouth of Elyon proceedeth not hara’ot (the woe) and hatov (the good)?

³⁹ Why doth an adam chai (any man alive) complain, a gever for the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰ Let us search and test derakheinu (our ways), and let us turn again to Hashem.

⁴¹ Let us lift up levavenu (our heart) with our hands unto El baShomayim.

⁴² We have transgressed and have rebelled; Atah lo salachta (Thou hast not pardoned, forgiven).

⁴³ Thou hast covered with af (anger), and pursued us; Thou hast slain, Thou hast not pitied.

⁴⁴ Thou hast covered Thyself with an anan, that our tefillah not pass through.

⁴⁵ Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse among the amim.

⁴⁶ Kol oyveinu (all our enemies) have opened their mouths against us.

⁴⁷ Pachad (terror) and a snare is come upon us, ruin and destruction.

⁴⁸ Mine eye runneth down with streams of mayim for the destruction of Bat Ami.

⁴⁹ Mine eye will flow down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission

⁵⁰ Till Hashem look down, and behold from Shomayim.

⁵¹ Mine eye affecteth mine nefesh because of all the banot of my city.

⁵² Mine enemies hunted me down, like a tzippor (bird), without cause.

⁵³ They have cut off my life in the bor (pit) and cast an even (stone) upon me.

⁵⁴ Mayim flowed over mine rosh; then I said, I am cut off.

⁵⁵ I called upon Thy Shem, Hashem, out of the lowest pit.

⁵⁶ Thou hast heard my voice; close not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.

⁵⁷ Thou drewest near on the Yom that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst, Fear not.

⁵⁸ Adonoi, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my nefesh; Thou hast redeemed my life.

⁵⁹ Hashem, Thou hast seen my wrong; uphold my cause.

⁶⁰ Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their machsh’vot against me.

⁶¹ Thou hast heard their reproach, Hashem, and all their machsh’vot against me;

⁶² The whisperings of those that rose up against me, and their muttering against me kol hayom.

⁶³ Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; Ani (I) am their mocking song.

⁶⁴ Render unto them a gemul (recompence), Hashem, according to the work of their hands.

⁶⁵ Give them hardness of lev as thy curse unto them.

⁶⁶ Pursue in anger and destroy them from under HaShomayim of Hashem.