By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

I have become the sport of all the peoples I am their song all the day.

By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

My soul still keeps the memory of them and is bent down in me.

It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.

I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage and because of this I will have hope in him.

It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.

Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows let him be full of shame.

For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.

In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.

Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord

We have done wrong and gone against your law we have not had your forgiveness.

Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.

The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.

They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird

Waters were flowing over my head I said, I am cut off.

My voice came to you let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.

O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.

You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.

The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.

You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.

You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!

The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.

Their face is blacker than night in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem.

They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.

They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered for our end has come.

Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.

The punishment of your evil-doing is complete, O daughter of Zion never again will he take you away as a prisoner: he will give you the reward of your evil-doing, O daughter of Edom he will let your sin be uncovered.

Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.

The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste jackals go over it.

Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

But you have quite given us up you are full of wrath against us.

And Judas, who was false to him, had knowledge of the place because Jesus went there frequently with his disciples.

Then Jesus, having knowledge of everything which was coming on him, went forward and said to them, Who are you looking for?

And when he said to them, I am he, they went back, falling to the earth.

Jesus made answer, I have said that I am he if you are looking for me, let these men go away.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, took it out and gave the high priest's servant a blow, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

Then the band and the chief captain and the police took Jesus and put cords round him.

It was Caiaphas who had said to the Jews that it was in their interest for one man to be put to death for the people.

But Peter was kept outside at the door. Then this other disciple, who was a friend of the high priest, came out and had a word with the girl who kept the door, and took Peter in.

Now the servants and the police had made a fire of coals because it was cold they were warming themselves in front of it and Peter was there with them, warming himself.

Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come and I have said nothing secretly.

When he said this, one of the police by his side gave him a blow with his open hand, saying, Do you give such an answer to the high priest?

Then Annas sent him chained to Caiaphas, the high priest.

One of the servants of the high priest, a relation of him whose ear had been cut off by Peter, said, Did I not see you with him in the garden?