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.

^(I)“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”?

^(J)“I will be to Him a Father,
And He shall be to Me a Son”?

^(L)“Let all the angels of God worship Him.”

^(M)“Who makes His angels spirits
And His ministers a flame of fire.”

^(N)“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A ^[f]scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
⁹ You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
Therefore God, Your God, ^(O)has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”

^(P)“You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
^11 (Q)They will perish, but You remain;
And ^(R)they will all grow old like a garment;
¹² Like a cloak You will fold them up,
And they will be changed.
But You are the ^(S)same,
And Your years will not fail.”

^(T)“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”?

³ For my days ^[a]are ^(C)consumed like smoke,
And my bones are burned like a hearth.
⁴ My heart is stricken and withered like grass,
So that I forget to eat my bread.
⁵ Because of the sound of my groaning
My bones cling to my ^[b]skin.
⁶ I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
I am like an owl of the desert.
⁷ I lie awake,
And am like a sparrow alone on the housetop.

⁸ My enemies reproach me all day long;
Those who deride me swear an oath against me.
⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And mingled my drink with weeping,
¹⁰ Because of Your indignation and Your wrath;
For You have lifted me up and cast me away.
¹¹ My days are like a shadow that lengthens,
And I wither away like grass.

¹² But You, O Lord, shall endure forever,
And the remembrance of Your name to all generations.
¹³ You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
For the time to favor her,
Yes, the set time, has come.
¹⁴ For Your servants take pleasure in her stones,
And show favor to her dust.
¹⁵ So the ^[c]nations shall ^(D)fear the name of the Lord,
And all the kings of the earth Your glory.
¹⁶ For the Lord shall build up Zion;
^(E)He shall appear in His glory.
^17 (F)He shall regard the prayer of the destitute,
And shall not despise their prayer.

¹⁸ This will be ^(G)written for the generation to come,
That ^(H)a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.
¹⁹ For He ^(I)looked down from the height of His sanctuary;
From heaven the Lord viewed the earth,
^20 (J)To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To release those appointed to death,
²¹ To ^(K)declare the name of the Lord in Zion,
And His praise in Jerusalem,
^22 (L)When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

²³ He weakened my strength in the way;
He ^(M)shortened my days.
^24 (N)I said, “O my God,
Do not take me away in the midst of my days;
^(O)Your years are throughout all generations.
^25 (P)Of old You laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
^26 (Q)They will perish, but You will ^[d]endure;
Yes, they will all grow old like a garment;
Like a cloak You will change them,
And they will be changed.
²⁷ But ^(R)You are the same,
And Your years will have no end.
^28 (S)The children of Your servants will continue,
And their descendants will be established before You.”