3 ^[a]I am the man who has seen affliction^(A)
    by the rod of the Lord’s wrath.^(B)

⁷ Your wrath^(A) lies heavily on me;
    you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.^[a](B)

¹⁵ From my youth^(A) I have suffered^(B) and been close to death;
    I have borne your terrors^(C) and am in despair.^(D)
16 Your wrath^(E) has swept over me;
    your terrors^(F) have destroyed me.

²¹ “Have pity on me, my friends,^(A) have pity,
    for the hand of God has struck^(B) me.

¹² “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?^(A)
    Look around and see.
Is any suffering like my suffering^(B)
    that was inflicted on me,
that the Lord brought on me
    in the day of his fierce anger?^(C)

¹³ “From on high he sent fire,
    sent it down into my bones.^(D)
He spread a net^(E) for my feet
    and turned me back.
He made me desolate,^(F)
    faint^(G) all the day long.

¹⁴ “My sins have been bound into a yoke^[a];^(H)
    by his hands they were woven together.
They have been hung on my neck,
    and the Lord has sapped my strength.
He has given me into the hands^(I)
    of those I cannot withstand.