Holy Bible - Revised Standard Version(RSV)

3:1	I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;
3:2	he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
3:3	surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.
3:4	He has made my flesh and my skin waste away, and broken my bones;
3:5	he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
3:6	he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
3:7	He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;he has put heavy chains on me;
3:8	though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
3:9	he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
3:10	He is to me like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding;
3:11	he led me off my way and tore me to pieces;he has made me desolate;
3:12	he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.
3:13	He drove into my heart the arrows of his quiver;
3:14	I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the burden of their songs all day long.
3:15	He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
3:16	He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
3:17	my soul is bereft of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;
3:18	so I say, 'Gone is my glory, and my expectation from the LORD.'
3:19	Remember my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the gall!
3:20	My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me.
3:21	But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
3:22	The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;
3:23	they are new every morning;great is thy faithfulness.
3:24	'The LORD is my portion,' says my soul, 'therefore I will hope in him.'
3:25	The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
3:26	It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
3:27	It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
3:28	Let him sit alone in silence when he has laid it on him;
3:29	let him put his mouth in the dust -- there may yet be hope;
3:30	let him give his cheek to the smiter, and be filled with insults.
3:31	For the Lord will not cast off for ever,
3:32	but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
3:33	for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
3:34	To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
3:35	to turn aside the right of a man in the presence of the Most High,
3:36	to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.
3:37	Who has commanded and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
3:38	Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come?
3:39	Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
3:40	Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD!
3:41	Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
3:42	'We have transgressed and rebelled, and thou hast not forgiven.
3:43	'Thou hast wrapped thyself with anger and pursued us, slaying without pity;
3:44	thou hast wrapped thyself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
3:45	Thou hast made us offscouring and refuse among the peoples.
3:46	'All our enemies rail against us;
3:47	panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;
3:48	my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3:49	'My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,
3:50	until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees;
3:51	my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the maidens of my city.
3:52	'I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;
3:53	they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;
3:54	water closed over my head;I said, I am lost.'
3:55	'I called on thy name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit;
3:56	thou didst hear my plea, Do not close thine ear to my cry for help!'
3:57	Thou didst come near when I called on thee;thou didst say, Do not fear!'
3:58	'Thou hast taken up my cause, O Lord, thou hast redeemed my life.
3:59	Thou hast seen the wrong done to me, O LORD;judge thou my cause.
3:60	Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their devices against me.
3:61	'Thou hast heard their taunts, O LORD, all their devices against me.
3:62	The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.
3:63	Behold their sitting and their rising;I am the burden of their songs.
3:64	'Thou wilt requite them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
3:65	Thou wilt give them dullness of heart;thy curse will be on them.
3:66	Thou wilt pursue them in anger and destroy them from under thy heavens, O LORD.'