1    ^noteI The man ^note that see my pouertie in the rod of his indignation.

2    ^noteHe hath led me, and brought me into darknes and not into light.

3    ^noteOnly against me he hath turned and hath conuerted his hand al the day.

4    ^noteHe hath made my skinne old and my flesh, he hath broken my bones.

5    ^noteHe hath built round about me, and he hath compased me with ^note gaul, and ^note labour.

6    ^noteIn darke places he hath placed me as the euerlasting dead.

7    ^noteHe hath built round about against me, that I goe not forth: he hath aggrauated my fetters.

8    ^noteYea and when I shal crie, and aske, he hath excluded my prayer.

9    ^noteHe hath shut vp my wayes with square stones, he hath subuerted my pathes.

10    ^noteHe is become vnto me a beare lying inwaite: a lyon in secret places.

11    ^noteHe hath subuerted my pathes, and hath broken me, he hath made me desolate.

12    ^noteHe hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow.

13    ^noteHe hath shot in my reines the daughters of his quiuer.

14    ^noteI am made a derision to al my people, their songue al the day.

15    ^noteHe hath replenished me with bitternes, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.

16    ^noteAnd he ^note hath broken my teeth by number, he hath fed me with ashes.

17    ^noteAnd my soule is repelled from peace, I haue forgotten good thinges.

18    ^noteAnd I sayd: Mine end is ^note perished, and mine hope from our Lord.

19    ^noteRemember my pouertie, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gual.

20    ^noteRemembring I wil be mindful, and my soule shal languish in me.

21    ^noteRecording this thing in my hart, therfore wil I hope.

22    ^noteThe mercies of our Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations haue not fayled.

23    ^{note note}New in the morning, great is thy fidelite.

24    ^noteOur Lord is my portion, sayd my soule: therfore wil I expect him.

25    ^noteOur Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soule that seeketh him.

26    ^noteIt is good to waite with silence for the saluation ^note of God.

27    ^noteIt is good for a man, when he beareth the yoke from his youth.

28    ^noteHe shal sit solitarie, and hold his peace: because he hath lifted himselfe aboue himself.

29    ^noteHe shal put his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there be hope.

30    ^noteHe ^note shal geue the cheeke to him that striketh him, he shal be filled with reproches.

31    ^noteBecause our Lord wil not reiect for euer.

32    ^noteBecause if he hath reiected, he wil also haue mercie, according to the multitude of his mercies.

33    ^noteFor he hath not humbled ^note from his hart, and cast of the children of men.

34    ^noteTo stamp vnder his fete al the prisoners of the earth.

35    ^noteTo auert the iudgement of a man before the face of the Highest.

36    ^noteTo peruert a man in his iudgement, ^note our Lord hath not knowne.

37    ^noteWho is this, that hath commanded it to be done, our Lord not commanding it?

38    ^noteOut of the mouth of the Highest, there shal not procede neither euil thinges, ^note nor good.

39    ^noteWhat hath the liuing man murmured, man for his sinnes?

40    ^noteLet vs search our wayes, & seeke, and returne to our Lord.

41    ^noteLet vs lift vp our hartes with our handes to our Lord into the heauens.

42    ^noteWe haue done wickedly, and prouoked to wrath: therfore thou art inexorable.

43    ^noteThou hast couered in furie, and hast strooken vs: thou hast killed, and not spared.

44    ^noteThou hast sette a cloude before thee, that prayer may not passe.

45    ^noteThou hast made me to be rooted out, and abiect in the middes of the peoples.

46    ^noteAl the enemies haue opened their mouth vpon vs.

47    ^{note note}Prophecie is made vnto vs, feare, and snare, and destruction.

48    ^noteMyne eye hath shed streames of waters, in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49    ^noteMyne eye is afflicted, neither hath it bene quiet, because there was no rest:

50    ^noteTil our Lord regarded and looked from the heauens.

51    ^noteMine eye hath spoyled my soule for al the daughters of my citie.

52    ^noteMyne enemies in hunting haue caught me as a birde, without cause.

53    ^noteMy life is fallen into the lake, and they haue layd a stone vpon me.

54    ^noteThe waters haue flowed ouer my head: I sayd: I am vndone.

55    ^noteI haue inuocated thy name ô Lord from the lowest lake.

56    ^noteThou hast heard my voice: turne not away thine eare from my sobbings, and cries.

57    ^noteThou didst approch in the day, when I inuocated thee: thou hast sayd: Feare not.

58    ^noteThou hast iudged ô Lord the cause of my soule, redemer of my life.

59    ^noteThou hast seene ô Lord their iniquitie against me: ^note iudge my iudgement.

60    ^noteThou hast seene al their furie, al their cogitations against me.

61    ^noteThou hast heard their reproch ô Lord, al their cogitations against me.

62    ^noteThe lippes of them that rise vp against me; and their cogitations against me al the day.

63    ^noteSee their sitting downe, and their rysing vp, I am their psalme.

64    ^noteThou shalt render them a recompence ô Lord, according to the workes of their handes.

65    ^noteThou shalt geue them ^note a shild of hart ^note thy labour.

66    ^noteThou shalt persecute in furie, and shalt destroy them from vnder the heauens ô Lord.

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