2He has led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

3Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand [against me] all the day.

4My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

5He has built against me, and compassed [me] with gall (something bitter or poisonous) and travail.

6He has set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

7He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.

8Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

9He has enclosed my ways with cut stone, he has made my paths crooked.

10He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.

11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.

12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion).

14I was a ridicule (laughing at enemies’ threats) to all my people; [and] their song all the day.

15He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.

16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.

17And youⁱ have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.

18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate):

19Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall (something bitter or poisonous).

20My soul has [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

21This I recall to (to do entirely, do wholly) my mind, therefore have I hope.

22[It is of] the LORD-Yehovah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23[They are] new every morning: great [is] youⁱ faithfulness.

24The LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25The LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeks him.

26[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

27[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne [it] upon him.

29He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

30He gives [his] cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach (disgrace; shame).

31For the Lord-Adonai (The Father)[Greatest Above All Things] will not cast off forever:

32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord-Adonai (The Father)[Greatest Above All Things] approves not.

37Who [is] he [that] says, and it comes to pass, [when] the Lord-Adonai (The Father)[Greatest Above All Things] commands [it] not?

38Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?

39For what reason does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

41Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in the heavens.

42We have transgressed and have rebelled: youⁱ have not pardoned.

43youⁱ have covered with anger, and persecuted us: youⁱ have slain, youⁱ have not pitied.

44youⁱ have covered yourself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.

45youⁱ have made us [as] the outcast and refuse in the midst of the people.

46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

48Mine eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49Mine eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission,

50Till the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) look down, and behold from heaven.

51Mine eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

54Waters flowed over my head; [then] I said, I am cut off.

55I called upon youⁱ name, O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), out of the low dungeon.

56youⁱ have heard my voice: hide not youⁱ ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57youⁱ drew near in the day [that] I called upon youⁱ: youⁱ said, Fear not.

58O Lord-Adonai (The Father)[Greatest Above All Things], youⁱ have pleaded the causes of my soul; youⁱ have redeemed my life.

59O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youⁱ have seen my wrong: judge youⁱ my cause.

60youⁱ have seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.

61youⁱ have heard their reproach (disgrace; shame), O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [and] all their imaginations against me;

62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their music.

64Render unto them a recompense, O LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to the work of their hands.

65Give them sorrow of heart, youⁱ curse unto them.

66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).