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3:1  I am the gever that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
3:2  He hath driven me away, and brought me into choshech, but not into ohr.
3:3  Surely against me is He turned; He turneth His yad against me kol hayom.
3:4  My basar and my ohr (skin) hath He made old; He hath broken my atzmot.
3:5  He hath set up seigeworks against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
3:6  He hath set me in dark places, like the mesei olam (long dead).
3:7  He hath hedged me about, that I cannot escape; He hath made my chain heavy.
3:8  Also when I cry and call out, He shutteth out my tefillah.
3:9  He hath barred my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
3:10  He was unto me like a dov (bear) lying in wait, and like an aryeh in mistarim (hiding places).
3:11  He hath turned aside the darkhei of mine, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.
3:12  He hath bent His keshet, and set me as a target for the khetz (arrow).
3:13  He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my organs.
3:14  I was a derision to kol ami; and their [mocking] song kol hayom.
3:15  He hath filled me with merorim (bitter herbs); He hath made me drunk with suffering.
3:16  He hath also broken my teeth with gravel, He hath covered me with aphar.
3:17  And Thou hast removed my nefesh far off from shalom; I forgot tovah (prosperity).
3:18  And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from Hashem;
3:19  Remember mine oni (affliction) and my misery, the sorrow and the trouble.
3:20  My nefesh hath them still in remembrance, and is downcast in me.
3:21  This I recall to my lev, therefore have I hope:
3:22  Because of the chasdei Hashem we are not consumed, for His rachamim fail not.
3:23  They are chadashim every boker; great is Thy faithfulness.
3:24  Hashem is my chelek, saith my nefesh; therefore in hope will I wait for Him.
3:25  Hashem is tov unto them that wait for Him, to the nefesh that seeketh Him.
3:26  It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the Teshu’at Hashem.
3:27  It is tov for a gever that he bear the ol (yoke) from his youth.
3:28  He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because He hath laid it upon him.
3:29  He putteth his mouth in the aphar; there may yet be tikvah.
3:30  He offereth his lekhi (cheek) to him that striketh him; he is filled full with reproach [Isa 50:6].
3:31  For Adonoi will not cast off l’olam (forever);
3:32  But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the rov chasadav (the multitude of His mercies).
3:33  For He doth not afflict willingly nor bring grief to Bnei Ish.
3:34  To crush under His feet kol asirei eretz (all the prisoners of the earth),
3:35  To turn aside the mishpat gever (the right of a man) before the face of Elyon,
3:36  To subvert a man in his cause, Adonoi approveth not.
3:37  Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when Adonoi commandeth it not?
3:38  Out of the mouth of Elyon proceedeth not hara’ot (the woe) and hatov (the good)?
3:39  Why doth an adam chai (any man alive) complain, a gever for the punishment of his sins?
3:40  Let us search and test derakheinu (our ways), and let us turn again to Hashem.
3:41  Let us lift up levavenu (our heart) with our hands unto El baShomayim.
3:42  We have transgressed and have rebelled; Atah lo salachta (Thou hast not pardoned, forgiven).
3:43  Thou hast covered with af (anger), and pursued us; Thou hast slain, Thou hast not pitied.
3:44  Thou hast covered Thyself with an anan, that our tefillah not pass through.
3:45  Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse among the amim.
3:46  Kol oyveinu (all our enemies) have opened their mouths against us.
3:47  Pachad (terror) and a snare is come upon us, ruin and destruction.
3:48  Mine eye runneth down with streams of mayim for the destruction of Bat Ami.
3:49  Mine eye will flow down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission
3:50  Till Hashem look down, and behold from Shomayim.
3:51  Mine eye affecteth mine nefesh because of all the banot of my city.
3:52  Mine enemies hunted me down, like a tzippor (bird), without cause.
3:53  They have cut off my life in the bor (pit) and cast an even (stone) upon me.
3:54  Mayim flowed over mine rosh; then I said, I am cut off.
3:55  I called upon Thy Shem, Hashem, out of the lowest pit.
3:56  Thou hast heard my voice; close not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
3:57  Thou drewest near on the Yom that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst, Fear not.
3:58  Adonoi, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my nefesh; Thou hast redeemed my life.
3:59  Hashem, Thou hast seen my wrong; uphold my cause.
3:60  Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their machsh’vot against me.
3:61  Thou hast heard their reproach, Hashem, and all their machsh’vot against me;
3:62  The whisperings of those that rose up against me, and their muttering against me kol hayom.
3:63  Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; Ani (I) am their mocking song.
3:64  Render unto them a gemul (recompence), Hashem, according to the work of their hands.
3:65  Give them hardness of lev as thy curse unto them.
3:66  Pursue in anger and destroy them from under HaShomayim of Hashem.