I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

{Am} I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

When his candle shined upon my head, {and when} by his light I walked {through} darkness; {candle: or, lamp}

Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

He runneth upon him, {even} on {his} neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply {my} days as the sand.

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

For the arrows of the Almighty {are} within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

He runneth upon him, {even} on {his} neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, {when} thou shalt make ready {thine arrows} upon thy strings against the face of them. {shalt thou...: or, thou shalt set them as a butt} {back: Heb. shoulder}

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. {daily: or, all the day}

And {in} every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, {it} shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. {in every...: Heb. every passing of the rod founded} {lay...: Heb. cause to rest upon} {with it: or, against them}

I reckoned till morning, {that}, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day {even} to night wilt thou make an end of me.

He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all {that were} pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. {all...: Heb. all the desirable of the eye}

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?