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Bishops' Bible of 1568
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1 I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie. I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD’s wrath.
2 He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light. he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;
3 Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me. surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.
4 My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised. He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
5 He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile. he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer. he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago. He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
7 He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me. He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy; He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.
8 Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer. though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked. he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
10 He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare, and as a lion in a hole. He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding; Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
11 He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether. he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate; he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.
12 He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at. he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
13 The arrowes of his quiuer hath he shot, euen into my reynes. He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver; He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
14 I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long. I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long. I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15 He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke. He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood. He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.
16 He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust. He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes; He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.
17 He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges. my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 I thought in my selfe, I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the Lorde. so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD.” So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.”
19 O remember yet my miserie and my trouble, the wormewood and the gall. Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
20 Yea thou shalt remember them, for my soule melteth away in me. My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
21 Whyle I consider these thinges in my heart, I get a hope agayne. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
22 namely it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed, for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed. The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
23 Newe mercyes shall the Lord shewe vpon thee early in the day springing, (O Lorde) great is thy faythfulnesse. they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
24 The Lorde is my portion saith my soule therefore wyll I hope in hym. “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
25 O howe good is the Lord vnto them that put their trust in hym, and to the soule that seeketh after hym. The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
26 The good man with stilnesse and pacience, taryeth for the health of the Lorde. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
27 O howe good is it for a man to take the yoke vpon him from his youth vp? It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.
28 He sitteth alone, he holdeth hym styll, because he hath taken the Lordes yoke vpon hym. Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him; Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him.
29 He layeth his face vpon the earth, if there happen to be any hope. let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope; Let him bury his face in the dust— there may yet be hope.
30 He offreth his cheeke to the smyter, he wyll be content with reproffes: let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults. Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.
31 For the Lord wil not forsake for euer. For the Lord will not cast off forever, For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.
32 But though he punishe, yet according to the multitude of his mercies he receaueth to grace agayne. but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
33 For he doth not plague willingly, and afflict the chyldren of men, for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.
34 To treade all the prysoners of the earth vnder his feete, To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
35 To moue the iudgement of man before the most highest, to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, to deny people their rights before the Most High,
36 To condemne a man in his cause: the Lord hath not pleasure in such thinges. to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve. to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?
37 What is he then that saith, there should some thing be done without the Lordes commaundement? Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
38 Out of the mouth of the most highest goeth not euyll and good? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
39 Wherefore then murmureth the liuing man? let hym murmure at his owne sinne. Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins? Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
40 Let vs looke well vpon our wayes, and remember our selues, and turne agayne to the Lorde. Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD! Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
41 Let vs lift our heartes with our handes vnto the Lorde that is in heauen. Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
42 We haue ben dissemblers and haue offended, wylt thou therefore not be intreated? “We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven. “We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
43 Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slayne vs without any fauour. “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
44 Thou hast hid thy selfe in a cloude, that our prayer should not go through. you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through. You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
45 Thou hast made vs outcastes, and to be despised among the people. You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples. You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46 All our enemies gape vpon vs. “All our enemies open their mouths against us; “All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
47 Feare and pit is come vpon vs, yea deceipt and destruction. panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction; We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”
48 Whole riuers of water gushe out of mine eyes for the hurt of my people: my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
49 Myne eyes runne and cannot ceasse, for there is no rest: “My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite, My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
50 O Lorde, when wylt thou looke downe from heauen and consider? until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees; until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 Mine eyes breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my citie. my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city. What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
52 Mine enemies hunted me out sharply like a byrde, yea & that without a cause. “I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause; Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
53 They haue put downe my life into a pit, and they haue cast stones vpon me. they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me; They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
54 They haue powred water vpon my head: then thought I, nowe am I vndone. water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’ the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.
55 I called vpon thy name O Lorde out of the deepe pit. “I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit; I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the pit.
56 Thou hast heard my voyce, and hast not turned away thyne eares from my sighing and crying. you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!’ You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”
57 Thou hast inclyned thy selfe vnto me when I called vpon thee: and hast said, feare not. You came near when I called on you; you said, ‘Do not fear!’ You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”
58 Thou (O Lorde) hast mayntayned the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my lyfe. “You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life. You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.
59 O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, take thou my cause vpon thee. You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause. LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
60 Thou hast well considered howe they go about to do me harme, and that all their counsels are against me. You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
61 Thou hast hearde their despitefull wordes O Lorde, yea and all the imaginations against me: “You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me. LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
62 The lippes of mine enemies, and their deuises that they take against me al the day long. The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long. what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
63 Thou seest also their sitting downe and their rising vp, they make their songes of nothing but of me. Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts. Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
64 Rewarde them, O Lorde, according to the workes of their handes. “You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done.
65 Geue them an obstinate heart, euen thy curse. You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them. Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
66 Persecute them O Lorde with thyne indignation, and roote them out from vnder the heauen. You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD.” Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
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