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| 3:1 |
 am the man that hath seene affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
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| 3:2 |
He hath led me and brought mee into darkenesse, but not into light. |
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| 3:3 |
Surely against me is he turned, he turneth his hand against me all the day. |
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| 3:4 |
My flesh and my skinne hath he made old, he hath broken my bones. |
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| 3:5 |
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and trauel. |
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| 3:6 |
He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead of old. |
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| 3:7 |
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: hee hath made my chaine heauie. |
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| 3:8 |
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. |
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| 3:9 |
Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked. |
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| 3:10 |
He was vnto me as a Beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places. |
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| 3:11 |
Hee hath turned aside my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: hee hath made me desolate. |
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| 3:12 |
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow. |
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| 3:13 |
Hee hath caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines. |
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| 3:14 |
I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. |
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| 3:15 |
Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood. |
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| 3:16 |
He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes. |
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| 3:17 |
And thou hast remoued my soule farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie. |
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| 3:18 |
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: |
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| 3:19 |
Remembring mine affliction and my miserie, the wormewood & the gall. |
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| 3:20 |
My soule hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. |
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| 3:21 |
This I recall to my mind, therefore haue I hope. |
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| 3:22 |
It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not. |
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| 3:23 |
They are newe euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse. |
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| 3:24 |
The Lord is my portion, sayth my soule, therefore will I hope in him. |
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| 3:25 |
The Lord is good vnto them that waite for him, to the soule that seeketh him. |
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| 3:26 |
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the saluation of the Lord. |
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| 3:27 |
It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth. |
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| 3:28 |
Hee sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because hee hath borne it vpon him. |
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| 3:29 |
He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. |
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| 3:30 |
Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him, hee is filled full with reproch. |
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| 3:31 |
For the Lord will not cast off for euer. |
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| 3:32 |
But though hee cause griefe, yet will hee haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. |
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| 3:33 |
For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieue the children of men. |
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| 3:34 |
To crush vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth, |
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| 3:35 |
To turne aside the right of a man before the face of the most high, |
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| 3:36 |
To subuert a man in his cause, the Lord approoueth not. |
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| 3:37 |
Who is hee that sayth, and it commeth to passe, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
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| 3:38 |
Out of the mouth of the most hie proceedeth not euill and good? |
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| 3:39 |
Wherefore doeth a liuing man complaine, a man for the punishment of his sinnes? |
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| 3:40 |
Let vs search and try our waies, and turne againe to the Lord. |
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| 3:41 |
Let vs lift vp our heart with our hands vnto God in the heauens. |
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| 3:42 |
We haue transgressed, and haue rebelled, thou hast not pardoned. |
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| 3:43 |
Thou hast couered with anger, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine, thou hast not pitied. |
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| 3:44 |
Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloud, that our prayer should not passe through. |
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| 3:45 |
Thou hast made vs as the offscouring and refuse in the middest of the people. |
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| 3:46 |
All our enemies haue opened their mouthes against vs. |
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| 3:47 |
Feare and a snare is come vpon vs, desolation and destruction. |
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| 3:48 |
Mine eye runneth downe with riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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| 3:49 |
Mine eye trickleth downe and ceaseth not, without any intermission: |
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| 3:50 |
Till the Lord looke downe, and behold from heauen. |
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| 3:51 |
Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city. |
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| 3:52 |
Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird, without cause. |
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| 3:53 |
They haue cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me. |
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| 3:54 |
Waters flowed ouer mine head, then I sayd, I am cut off. |
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| 3:55 |
I called vpon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. |
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| 3:56 |
Thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine eare at my breathing, at my crie. |
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| 3:57 |
Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saidst, Feare not. |
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| 3:58 |
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soule, thou hast redeemed my life. |
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| 3:59 |
O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause. |
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| 3:60 |
Thou hast seene all their vengeance; and all their imaginations against me. |
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| 3:61 |
Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me: |
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| 3:62 |
The lippes of those that rose vp against me, and their deuice against me all the day. |
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| 3:63 |
Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, I am their musicke. |
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| 3:64 |
Render vnto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the worke of their hands. |
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| 3:65 |
Giue them sorrow of heart, thy curse vnto them. |
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| 3:66 |
Persecute and destroy them in anger, from vnder the heauens of the Lord. |
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