⁴ He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
    ^(D)he has broken my bones;
^5 (E)he has besieged and enveloped me
    with ^(F)bitterness and tribulation;
^6 (G)he has made me dwell in darkness
    like the dead of long ago.

^7 (H)He has walled me about so that ^(I)I cannot escape;
    he has made my chains heavy;
⁸ though ^(J)I call and cry for help,
    he shuts out my prayer;
^9 (K)he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
    he has made my paths crooked.

^19 (A)Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
    ^(B)the wormwood and ^(C)the gall!
²⁰ My soul continually remembers it
    ^(D)and is bowed down within me.
²¹ But this I call to mind,
    and ^(E)therefore I have hope:

^22 (F)The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;^{[a]
    (G)}his mercies never come to an end;
²³ they are new ^(H)every morning;
    ^(I)great is your faithfulness.
^24 (J)“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
    ^(K)“therefore I will hope in him.”

²⁵ The Lord is good to those who ^(L)wait for him,
    to the soul who seeks him.
^26 (M)It is good that one should wait quietly
    for the salvation of the Lord.
^27 (N)It is good for a man that he bear
    the yoke ^(O)in his youth.

²⁸ Let him ^(P)sit alone in silence
    when it is laid on him;
^29 (Q)let him put his mouth in the dust—
    there may yet be hope;
^30 (R)let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
    and let him be filled with insults.

^31 (S)For the Lord will not
    cast off forever,
³² but, though he ^(T)cause grief, ^(U)he will have compassion
    ^(V)according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
^33 (W)for he does not afflict from his heart
    or ^(X)grieve the children of men.

^52 (A)“I have been hunted ^(B)like a bird
    by those who were my enemies ^(C)without cause;
^53 (D)they flung me alive into the pit
    ^(E)and cast stones on me;
^54 (F)water closed over my head;
    I said, ^(G)‘I am lost.’

^55 (H)“I called on your name, O Lord,
    from the depths of the pit;
^56 (I)you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
    your ear to my cry for help!’
^57 (J)You came near when I called on you;
    you said, ^(K)‘Do not fear!’

⁵⁸ “You have ^(L)taken up my cause, ^(M)O Lord;
    you have ^(N)redeemed my life.
⁵⁹ You have seen the wrong done to me, ^(O)O Lord;
    judge my cause.
⁶⁰ You have seen all their vengeance,
    all ^(P)their plots against me.

^61 (Q)“You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
    all ^(R)their plots against me.
⁶² The lips and thoughts ^(S)of my assailants
    are against me all the day long.
^63 (T)Behold their sitting and their rising;
    ^(U)I am the object of their taunts.

^64 (V)“You will repay them,^[a] O Lord,
    ^(W)according to the work of their hands.
⁶⁵ You will give them^[b] dullness of heart;
    your curse will be^[c] on them.
⁶⁶ You will pursue them^[d] in anger and ^(X)destroy them
    from under ^(Y)your heavens, O Lord.”^[e]