3:1	I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.
3:2	By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
3:3	Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
3:4	My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
3:5	He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
3:6	He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
3:7	He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
3:8	Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
3:9	He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
3:10	He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
3:11	By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
3:12	With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
3:13	He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
3:14	I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
3:15	He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
3:16	By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
3:17	My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
3:18	And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
3:19	Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
3:20	My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
3:21	This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.
3:22	It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
3:23	They are new every morning; great is your good faith.
3:24	I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.
3:25	The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.
3:26	It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
3:27	It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
3:28	Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
3:29	Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
3:30	Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.
3:31	For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.
3:32	For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
3:33	For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.
3:34	In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
3:35	In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.
3:36	In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.
3:37	Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
3:38	Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
3:39	What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
3:40	Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
3:41	Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
3:42	We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
3:43	Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
3:44	Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
3:45	You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.
3:46	The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.
3:47	Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.
3:48	Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3:49	My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
3:50	Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.
3:51	The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
3:52	They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
3:53	They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
3:54	Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
3:55	I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
3:56	My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
3:57	You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.
3:58	O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.
3:59	O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.
3:60	You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.
3:61	Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;
3:62	The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.
3:63	Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.
3:64	You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.
3:65	You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.
3:66	You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.