3: 2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, 26and not in light.
26Or, without light.
3: 3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
3: 4 My flesh and my skin hath he 27made old; he hath broken my bones.
27Or, worn out;
3: 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
3: 6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
3: 7 He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
3: 8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
3: 9 He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
3: 10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
3: 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
3: 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
3: 13 He hath caused the 28shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
28Hb. sons
3: 14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
3: 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
3: 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
3: 17 And thou hast 29removed my soul far off from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.
29Or, cast off my soul
3: 18 And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
3: 19 Remember mine affliction and my 30misery, the wormwood and the gall.
30Or, wandering, or, outcast state,
3: 20 Truly, thou rememberest, and 31thy soul boweth down over me.
31Sopherim changed to my soul
3: 21 This I bring back to my heart; therefore have I hope.
3: 22 It is of Jehovah’s lovingkindness that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
3: 23 They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
3: 24 Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
3: 25 Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
3: 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
3: 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
3: 28 32Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.
32Or, He sitteth etc. And so through vss. 28-30.
3: 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
3: 30 Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.
3: 31 For 33Jehovah will not cast off for ever.
33Sopherim changed to the Lord And in vss. 36, 37.
3: 32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
3: 33 For he doth not afflict 34willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
34Hb. from his heart,
3: 34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
3: 35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
3: 36 To subvert a man in his cause, Jehovah 35approveth not.
35Hb. seeth not.
3: 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when Jehovah commandeth it not?
3: 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
3: 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, 36a man for the punishment of his sins?
36Or, a man that is in his sins
3: 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
3: 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
3: 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
3: 43 Thou hast 37covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
37Or, covered thyself with anger
3: 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
3: 45 Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
3: 46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
3: 47 Fear and the pit are come upon us, 38devastation and destruction.
38Or, the tumult
3: 48 Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3: 49 Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
3: 50 Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
3: 51 Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
3: 52 They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
3: 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
3: 54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
3: 55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
3: 56 Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
3: 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.
3: 58 39O Jehovah, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast ransomed my life.
39Sopherim changed to O Lord,
3: 59 O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.
3: 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
3: 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
3: 62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
3: 63 Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
3: 64 Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
3: 65 Thou wilt give them 40hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.
40Or, blindness Hb. covering
3: 66 Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
