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[1] I am the man who has seen affliction
by the rod of his wrath.
[2] He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,
and not in light.
[3] Surely he turns his hand against me
again and again all day long. [4] He has made my flesh and my skin old.
He has broken my bones.
[5] He has built against me,
and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
[6] He has made me dwell in dark places,
as those who have been long dead. [7] He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.
He has made my chain heavy.
[8] Yes, when I cry, and call for help,
he shuts out my prayer.
[9] He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
He has made my paths crooked. [10] He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
as a lion in hiding.
[11] He has turned away my path,
and pulled me in pieces.
He has made me desolate.
[12] He has bent his bow,
and set me as a mark for the arrow. [13] He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
[14] I have become a derision to all my people,
and their song all day long.
[15] He has filled me with bitterness.
He has stuffed me with wormwood. [16] He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
He has covered me with ashes.
[17] You have removed my soul far away from peace.
I forgot prosperity.
[18] I said, “My strength has perished,
along with my expectation from Yahweh.” [19] Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the bitterness.
[20] My soul still remembers them,
and is bowed down within me.
[21] This I recall to my mind;
therefore I have hope. [22] It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his mercies don’t fail.
[23] They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.
[24] “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul.
“Therefore I will hope in him.” [25] Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
[26] It is good that a man should hope
and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
[27] It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [28] Let him sit alone and keep silence,
because he has laid it on him.
[29] Let him put his mouth in the dust,
if it is so that there may be hope.
[30] Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
Let him be filled full of reproach. [31] For the Lord will not cast off forever.
[32] For though he causes grief,
yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
[33] For he does not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men. [34] To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
[35] to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
[36] to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve. [37] Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
when the Lord doesn’t command it?
[38] Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
[39] Why should a living man complain,
a man for the punishment of his sins? [40] Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to Yahweh.
[41] Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God§ in the heavens.
[42] “We have transgressed and have rebelled.
You have not pardoned. [43] “You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
You have killed.
You have not pitied.
[44] You have covered yourself with a cloud,
so that no prayer can pass through.
[45] You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
in the middle of the peoples. [46] “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
[47] Terror and the pit have come on us,
devastation and destruction.” [48] My eye runs down with streams of water,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
[49] My eye pours down
and doesn’t cease,
without any intermission,
[50] until Yahweh looks down,
and sees from heaven.
[51] My eye affects my soul,
because of all the daughters of my city. [52] They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
those who are my enemies without cause.
[53] They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
and have cast a stone on me.
[54] Waters flowed over my head.
I said, “I am cut off.” [55] I called on your name, Yahweh,
out of the lowest dungeon.
[56] You heard my voice:
“Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
and my cry.” [57] You came near in the day that I called on you.
You said, “Don’t be afraid.” [58] Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
You have redeemed my life.
[59] Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.
Judge my cause.
[60] You have seen all their vengeance
and all their plans against me. [61] You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,
and all their plans against me,
[62] the lips of those that rose up against me,
and their plots against me all day long.
[63] You see their sitting down and their rising up.
I am their song. [64] You will pay them back, Yahweh,
according to the work of their hands.
[65] You will give them hardness of heart,
your curse to them.
[66] You will pursue them in anger,
and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
by the rod of his wrath.
[2] He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,
and not in light.
[3] Surely he turns his hand against me
again and again all day long. [4] He has made my flesh and my skin old.
He has broken my bones.
[5] He has built against me,
and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
[6] He has made me dwell in dark places,
as those who have been long dead. [7] He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.
He has made my chain heavy.
[8] Yes, when I cry, and call for help,
he shuts out my prayer.
[9] He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
He has made my paths crooked. [10] He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
as a lion in hiding.
[11] He has turned away my path,
and pulled me in pieces.
He has made me desolate.
[12] He has bent his bow,
and set me as a mark for the arrow. [13] He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
[14] I have become a derision to all my people,
and their song all day long.
[15] He has filled me with bitterness.
He has stuffed me with wormwood. [16] He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
He has covered me with ashes.
[17] You have removed my soul far away from peace.
I forgot prosperity.
[18] I said, “My strength has perished,
along with my expectation from Yahweh.” [19] Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the bitterness.
[20] My soul still remembers them,
and is bowed down within me.
[21] This I recall to my mind;
therefore I have hope. [22] It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his mercies don’t fail.
[23] They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.
[24] “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul.
“Therefore I will hope in him.” [25] Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
[26] It is good that a man should hope
and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
[27] It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [28] Let him sit alone and keep silence,
because he has laid it on him.
[29] Let him put his mouth in the dust,
if it is so that there may be hope.
[30] Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
Let him be filled full of reproach. [31] For the Lord will not cast off forever.
[32] For though he causes grief,
yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
[33] For he does not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men. [34] To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
[35] to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
[36] to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve. [37] Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
when the Lord doesn’t command it?
[38] Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
[39] Why should a living man complain,
a man for the punishment of his sins? [40] Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to Yahweh.
[41] Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God§ in the heavens.
[42] “We have transgressed and have rebelled.
You have not pardoned. [43] “You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
You have killed.
You have not pitied.
[44] You have covered yourself with a cloud,
so that no prayer can pass through.
[45] You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
in the middle of the peoples. [46] “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
[47] Terror and the pit have come on us,
devastation and destruction.” [48] My eye runs down with streams of water,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
[49] My eye pours down
and doesn’t cease,
without any intermission,
[50] until Yahweh looks down,
and sees from heaven.
[51] My eye affects my soul,
because of all the daughters of my city. [52] They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
those who are my enemies without cause.
[53] They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
and have cast a stone on me.
[54] Waters flowed over my head.
I said, “I am cut off.” [55] I called on your name, Yahweh,
out of the lowest dungeon.
[56] You heard my voice:
“Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
and my cry.” [57] You came near in the day that I called on you.
You said, “Don’t be afraid.” [58] Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
You have redeemed my life.
[59] Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.
Judge my cause.
[60] You have seen all their vengeance
and all their plans against me. [61] You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,
and all their plans against me,
[62] the lips of those that rose up against me,
and their plots against me all day long.
[63] You see their sitting down and their rising up.
I am their song. [64] You will pay them back, Yahweh,
according to the work of their hands.
[65] You will give them hardness of heart,
your curse to them.
[66] You will pursue them in anger,
and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
Footnotes
- The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
King James Version
[1] I [am] the manH1397 [that] hath seenH7200(QalPerf) afflictionH6040 by the rodH7626 of his wrath.H5678 [2] He hath ledH5090(QalPerf) me, and broughtH3212(HiphImpf) [me into] darkness,H2822 but not [into] light.H216 [3] Surely against me is he turned;H7725(QalImpf) he turnethH2015(QalImpf) his handH3027 [against me] all the day.H3117 [4] My fleshH1320 and my skinH5785 hath he made old;H1086(PielPerf) he hath brokenH7665(PielPerf) my bones.H6106 [5] He hath builded againstH1129(QalPerf) me, and compassedH5362(HiphImpf) [me] with gallH7219 and travail.H8513 [6] He hath setH3427(HiphPerf) me in dark places,H4285 as [they that be] deadH4191(QalPtc) of old.H5769 [7] He hath hedgedH1443(QalPerf) me about, that I cannot get out:H3318(QalImpf) he hath made my chainH5178 heavy.H3513(HiphPerf) [8] Also when I cryH2199(QalImpf) and shout,H7768(PielImpf) he shutteth outH5640(QalPerf) my prayer.H8605 [9] He hath inclosedH1443(QalPerf) my waysH1870 with hewn stone,H1496 he hath made my pathsH5410 crooked.H5753(PielPerf) [10] He [was] unto me [as] a bearH1677 lying in wait,H693(QalActPtc) [and as] a lionH738 in secret places.H4565 [11] He hath turned asideH5493(PolePerf) my ways,H1870 and pulled me in pieces:H6582(PielImpf) he hath madeH7760(QalPerf) me desolate.H8074(QalActPtc) [12] He hath bentH1869(QalPerf) his bow,H7198 and setH5324(HiphImpf) me as a markH4307 for the arrow.H2671 [13] He hath caused the arrowsH1121 of his quiverH827 to enterH935(HiphPerf) into my reins.H3629 [14] I was a derisionH7814 to all my people;H5971 [and] their songH5058 all the day.H3117 [15] He hath filledH7646(HiphPerf) me with bitterness,H4844 he hath made me drunkenH7301(HiphPerf) with wormwood.H3939 [16] He hath also brokenH1638(HiphImpf) my teethH8127 with gravel stones,H2687 he hath coveredH3728(HiphPerf) me with ashes.H665 [17] And thou hast removedH2186 my soulH5315 far offH2186(QalImpf) from peace:H7965 I forgatH5382(QalPerf) prosperity.H2896 [18] And I said,H559(QalImpf) My strengthH5331 and my hopeH8431 is perishedH6(QalPerf) from the Lord:H3068 [19] RememberingH2142(QalImpv) mine afflictionH6040 and my misery,H4788 the wormwoodH3939 and the gall.H7219 [20] My soulH5315 hath [them] stillH2142(QalInf) in remembrance,H2142(QalImpf) and is humbledH7743(HiphImpf) in me. [21] This I recallH7725(HiphImpf) to my mind,H3820 therefore have I hope.H3176(HiphImpf) [22] [It is of] the Lord’sH3068 merciesH2617 that we are not consumed,H8552(QalPerf) because his compassionsH7356 failH3615(QalPerf) not. [23] [They are] newH2319 every morning:H1242 greatH7227 [is] thy faithfulness.H530 [24] The LordH3068 [is] my portion,H2506 saithH559(QalPerf) my soul;H5315 therefore will I hopeH3176(HiphImpf) in him. [25] The LordH3068 [is] goodH2896 unto them that waitH6960(QalActPtc) for him, to the soulH5315 [that] seekethH1875(QalImpf) him. [26] [It is] goodH2896 that [a man] should both hopeH3175(Qere) and quietly waitH1748 for the salvationH8668 of the Lord.H3068 [27] [It is] goodH2896 for a manH1397 that he bearH5375(QalImpf) the yokeH5923 in his youth.H5271 [28] He sittethH3427(QalImpf) aloneH910 and keepeth silence,H1826(QalImpf) because he hath borneH5190(QalPerf) [it] upon him. [29] He puttethH5414(QalImpf) his mouthH6310 in the dust;H6083 if so be there may beH3426 hope.H8615 [30] He givethH5414(QalImpf) [his] cheekH3895 to him that smitethH5221(HiphPtc) him: he is filled fullH7646(QalImpf) with reproach.H2781 [31] For the LordH136 will not cast offH2186(QalImpf) for ever:H5769 [32] But though he cause grief,H3013(HiphPerf) yet will he have compassionH7355(PielPerf) according to the multitudeH7230 of his mercies.H2617 [33] For he doth not afflictH6031(PielPerf) willinglyH3820 nor grieveH3013(PielImpf) the childrenH1121 of men.H376 [34] To crushH1792(PielInf) under his feetH7272 all the prisonersH615 of the earth,H776 [35] To turn asideH5186(HiphInf) the rightH4941 of a manH1397 before the faceH6440 of the most High,H5945 [36] To subvertH5791(PielInf) a manH120 in his cause,H7379 the LordH136 approvethH7200(QalPerf) not. [37] Who [is] he [that] saith,H559(QalPerf) and it cometh to pass, [when] the LordH136 commandethH6680(PielPerf) [it] not? [38] Out of the mouthH6310 of the most HighH5945 proceedethH3318(QalImpf) not evilH7451 and good?H2896 [39] Wherefore doth a livingH2416 manH120 complain,H596(HithImpf) a manH1397 for the punishment of his sins?H2399 [40] Let us searchH2664(QalImpf) and tryH2713(QalImpf) our ways,H1870 and turn againH7725(QalImpf) to the Lord.H3068 [41] Let us lift upH5375(QalImpf) our heartH3824 with [our] handsH3709 unto GodH410 in the heavens.H8064 [42] WeH5168 have transgressedH6586(QalPerf) and have rebelled:H4784(QalPerf) thou hast not pardoned.H5545(QalPerf) [43] Thou hast coveredH5526(QalPerf) with anger,H639 and persecutedH7291(QalImpf) us: thou hast slain,H2026(QalPerf) thou hast not pitied.H2550(QalPerf) [44] Thou hast coveredH5526(QalPerf) thyself with a cloud,H6051 that [our] prayerH8605 should not pass through.H5674(QalInf) [45] Thou hast madeH7760(QalImpf) us [as] the offscouringH5501 and refuseH3973 in the midstH7130 of the people.H5971 [46] All our enemiesH341(QalActPtc) have openedH6475(QalPerf) their mouthsH6310 against us. [47] FearH6343 and a snareH6354 is come upon us, desolationH7612 and destruction.H7667 [48] Mine eyeH5869 runneth downH3381(QalImpf) with riversH6388 of waterH4325 for the destructionH7667 of the daughterH1323 of my people.H5971 [49] Mine eyeH5869 trickleth down,H5064(NiphPerf) and ceasethH1820(QalImpf) not, without any intermission,H2014 [50] Till the LordH3068 look down,H8259(HiphImpf) and beholdH7200(QalImpf) from heaven.H8064 [51] Mine eyeH5869 affectethH5953(PoelPerf) mine heartH5315 because of all the daughtersH1323 of my city.H5892 [52] Mine enemiesH341(QalActPtc) chasedH6679(QalPerf) me sore,H6679(QalInf) like a bird,H6833 without cause.H2600 [53] They have cut offH6789(QalPerf) my lifeH2416 in the dungeon,H953 and castH3034(PielImpf) a stoneH68 upon me. [54] WatersH4325 flowed overH6687(QalPerf) mine head;H7218 [then] I said,H559(QalPerf) I am cut off.H1504(NiphPerf) [55] I calledH7121(QalPerf) upon thy name,H8034 O Lord,H3068 out of the lowH8482 dungeon.H953 [56] Thou hast heardH8085(QalPerf) my voice:H6963 hideH5956(HiphImpf) not thine earH241 at my breathing,H7309 at my cry.H7775 [57] Thou drewest nearH7126(QalPerf) in the dayH3117 [that] I calledH7121(QalImpf) upon thee: thou saidst,H559(QalPerf) FearH3372(QalImpf) not. [58] O Lord,H136 thou hast pleadedH7378(QalPerf) the causesH7379 of my soul;H5315 thou hast redeemedH1350(QalPerf) my life.H2416 [59] O Lord,H3068 thou hast seenH7200(QalPerf) my wrong:H5792 judgeH8199(QalImpv) thou my cause.H4941 [60] Thou hast seenH7200(QalPerf) all their vengeanceH5360 [and] all their imaginationsH4284 against me. [61] Thou hast heardH8085(QalPerf) their reproach,H2781 O Lord,H3068 [and] all their imaginationsH4284 against me; [62] The lipsH8193 of those that rose upH6965(QalPtc) against me, and their deviceH1902 against me all the day.H3117 [63] BeholdH5027(HiphImpv) their sitting down,H3427(QalInf) and their rising up;H7012 I [am] their musick.H4485 [64] RenderH7725(HiphImpf) unto them a recompence,H1576 O Lord,H3068 according to the workH4639 of their hands.H3027 [65] GiveH5414(QalImpf) them sorrowH4044 of heart,H3820 thy curseH8381 unto them. [66] PersecuteH7291(QalImpf) and destroyH8045(HiphImpf) them in angerH639 from under the heavensH8064 of the Lord.H3068
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