²⁸ I ^(A)go about darkened, but not by the sun;
    I stand up in ^(B)the assembly and cry for help.

² For you are ^(A)the God in whom I take refuge;
    why have you ^(B)rejected me?
Why do I ^(C)go about mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?

⁹ I say to God, ^(A)my rock:
    “Why have you forgotten me?
^(B)Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”

⁶ I am ^(A)utterly bowed down and ^(B)prostrate;
    all the day I ^(C)go about mourning.

3 ^(A)I am the man who has seen affliction
    under the ^(B)rod of his wrath;
² he has driven and brought me
    ^(C)into darkness without any light;
³ surely against me he turns his hand
    again and again the whole day long.

^3 (A)He was despised and rejected^[a] by men,
    a man of sorrows^[b] and acquainted with^[c] grief;^[d]
and as one from whom men hide their faces^[e]
    he was despised, and ^(B)we esteemed him not.

⁷ Behold, I ^(A)cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered;
    I call for help, but there is no justice.