1I , the one who am writing this, am a man who has been afflicted/punished [MTY] by Yahweh
2It was as though he caused me to walk in a very dark place
3He has punished [IDM] me many times,
4He has caused my skin and my flesh to become old.
5He has surrounded me [DOU]
6It is as though he has buried me in a dark place
7It is as though [MET] he has built a wall around me,
8Although I call out and cry out for him to help me,
9It is as though he has blocked my path with a high stone wall
10He has waited to attack me
11It is as though he has dragged me off the path and ◄mauled me/torn me into pieces►,
12It is as though [MET] he bent his bow and caused me to become the target
13It is as though he shot his arrows deep into my body.
14All my relatives laugh at me;
15He has filled me with ◄bitterness/great suffering►,
16It is as though he has caused me to chew gravel that broke my teeth,
17Things no longer go well for me;
18I continued to say to myself, “I no longer expect to live much longer;
19When I think about my suffering and my wandering away from home,
20I will never forget this time
21However, I confidently expect Yahweh to do good things for me again
22Yahweh never stops faithfully loving us,
23He is the one whom we can always trust/lean on.
24So I say to myself, “Yahweh is all that I need;
25Yahweh is good to all those who depend on him,
26So it is good for us to wait quietly
27And it is good for us to patiently endure suffering
28Those who seek his help should sit by themselves, silently,
29They should lie in the dirt, with their faces on the ground,
30If someone strikes us on one cheek,
31Yahweh does not abandon us his people forever.
32Sometimes he causes us to suffer,
33And he is not happy about causing human beings to suffer
34If people ◄mistreat all the prisoners/crush all the prisoners under their feet►
35or if they rebel against God
36or if they cause judges to decide matters unjustly,
37No one can [RHQ] command something to happen and then cause it to happen
38God in heaven [MTY] is [RHQ] the one who causes disasters to happen,
39So it is certainly not [RHQ] right for us, who are only humans, to complain
40Instead, we should ◄examine/think carefully about► our behavior;
41We should pray [IDM] sincerely and lift up our arms
42“We have sinned and rebelled against you,
43You have surrounded us with your anger and pursued us;
44You have hidden yourself in a cloud,
45You have caused the people of other nations to consider us
46All our enemies have insulted us.
47We are constantly afraid [DOU],
48I cry a lot
49My tears continually flow;
50until Yahweh looks down from heaven and sees us.
51I am very grieved
52Those who are my enemies hunted for me
53They threw me into a pit to kill me,
54The water in the pit rose above my head,
55But from the bottom of the pit I cried out to you [MTY],
56I pleaded with you,
57Then you answered me
58Yahweh, you defended me;
59Now, Yahweh, you have seen the evil things that my enemies have done to me,
60You know the evil things
61Yahweh, you have heard them insult me
62Every day they whisper and mutter things about me,
63Look at them! Whether they are standing or sitting
64Yahweh, cause them to suffer
65Curse them [IDM]
66Because you are angry with them, pursue them and get rid of them,