Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
I am the man who
has
seen affliction under
the rod of God’s
wrath.
I AM the man that
hath
seen affliction by
the rod of his
wrath.
He has
driven
me away
and made
me walk
in
darkness instead
of
light.
He hath
led
me ,
and brought
me into
darkness ,
but
not
into
light.
Indeed,
He keeps
turning
His hand against me all day long
.
Surely
against
me
is
he turned;
he
turneth
his hand against me all the
day.
He
has
worn
away
my flesh and skin; He has
shattered
my bones.
My flesh and my
skin hath
he
made
old
; he hath
broken
my bones.
He has
besieged
me and surrounded
me with bitterness
and hardship
.
He hath
builded
against
me ,
and compassed
me with gall
and travail
.
He has
made
me dwell
in darkness
like
those
dead for
ages
.
He hath
set
me in dark
places,
as
they
that
be
dead of
old
.
He has
walled
me in
so
I cannot escape;
He has
weighed
me
down
with
chains
.
He hath
hedged
me about,
that
I cannot get
out:
he hath
made
my
chain
heavy
.
Even
when I cry out
and plead
for
help
, He shuts
out my prayer.
Also
when I cry and shout
, he shutteth
out my prayer.
He has
barred
my ways with cut
stones;
He has
made my paths crooked.
He hath
inclosed
my ways with hewn
stone,
he hath
made my paths crooked.
He is
a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding
in ambush
.
He was
unto
me
as
a bear lying in wait, and
as
a lion in secret
places
.
He forced
me
off
my path
and tore
me to
pieces ;
He left
me without
help
.
He hath
turned
aside
my ways,
and pulled
me in
pieces :
he hath
made
me desolate
.
He bent His bow and set me as the
target
for His
arrow.
He hath
bent his bow ,
and set me as a
mark
for the
arrow.
He pierced
my
kidneys
with
His
arrows.
He hath
caused
the
arrows of
his
quiver
to
enter
into
my
reins
.
I am
a laughingstock
to all my people; they
mock
me
in
song all day long
.
I was
a derision
to all my people; and
their
song all the
day.
He has
filled me with bitterness ;
He has
intoxicated
me with wormwood.
He hath
filled me with bitterness ,
he hath
made
me drunken
with wormwood.
He has
ground
my teeth with gravel and
trampled
me in
the
dust
.
He hath
also
broken
my teeth with gravel stones,
he
hath
covered
me with
ashes
.
My soul has
been
deprived
of
peace ;
I have
forgotten
what
prosperity is
.
And
thou
hast
removed
my soul far
off
from
peace :
I forgat
prosperity.
So
I say
, “
My strength has
perished,
along
with
my hope from the LORD .”
And
I said
, My strength and
my hope is
perished
from the LORD :
Remember
my
affliction and wandering
, the wormwood and the gall.
Remembering
mine
affliction and my
misery
, the wormwood and the gall.
Surely
my soul remembers
and is humbled within
me.
My soul hath
them
still
in
remembrance,
and is humbled in
me.
Yet
I
call
this to mind, and
therefore I
have hope :
This I
recall
to my
mind, therefore have I
hope .
Because
of
the
loving
devotion
of the LORD
we are not consumed, for
His mercies
never
fail.
It
is
of the LORD's
mercies
that
we are not consumed, because
his compassions
fail not
.
They are new every morning ;
great is Your
faithfulness !
They are new every morning :
great is thy
faithfulness .
“
The LORD is my portion, ”
says
my soul ,
“
therefore I
will hope in Him. ”
The LORD is my portion, saith
my soul ;
therefore will I
hope in him.
The LORD is good to
those
who
wait for Him, to the soul who
seeks
Him.
The LORD is good unto
them
that
wait for him, to the soul that
seeketh
him.
It is good to
wait
quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
It is good that
a
man
should
both
hope
and
quietly wait
for the salvation of the LORD.
It is good for a man to
bear the yoke while
he
is
still
young
.
It is good for a man that
he
bear the yoke of
his
youth
.
Let
him
sit
alone in
silence, for
God
has
disciplined
him.
He
sitteth
alone and
keepeth
silence, because
he
hath
borne
it
upon
him.
Let
him
bury
his face
in the dust —
perhaps
there is
still
hope.
He
putteth
his mouth
in the dust ;
if
so
be
there may
be
hope.
Let
him
offer
his cheek to the
one
who
would
strike
him ;
let
him be
filled with reproach.
He
giveth
his cheek to him that
smiteth
him :
he
is
filled full
with reproach.
For the Lord will not cast us
off forever.
For the LORD will not cast off for
ever:
Even
if
He causes
grief, He
will show
compassion according to His abundant
loving
devotion
.
But
though
he cause
grief, yet
will he
have
compassion according to the
multitude
of
his mercies
.
For He does
not willingly
afflict or
grieve the sons
of men.
For he doth
not afflict willingly
nor
grieve the children
of men.
To crush underfoot
all the prisoners of the land,
To crush under
his
feet
all the prisoners of the earth.
to deny
a man justice
before the Most High,
To turn
aside
the
right
of
a man before the face
of
the
most High,
to subvert a man in his lawsuit—
of
these
the Lord does
not approve
.
To subvert a man in his cause,
the LORD approveth
not.
Who has
spoken
and it came
to pass, unless
the Lord has
ordained
it?
Who is
he
that
saith,
and it cometh
to pass, when
the Lord commandeth
it not
?
Do
not
both
adversity
and
good
come
from
the mouth of the Most High?
Out
of
the mouth of the most High proceedeth
not
evil
and
good
?
Why
should
any
mortal
man complain, in
view
of his sins?
Wherefore
doth
a
living
man complain, a
man
for
the
punishment
of his sins?
Let us examine
and test
our ways, and turn back
to the LORD.
Let us search
and try
our ways, and turn again
to the LORD.
Let us lift up our hearts
and
hands to
God in heaven:
Let us lift up our heart
with
our
hands unto
God in the
heavens.
“
We have sinned
and rebelled;
You
have not forgiven
. ”
We have transgressed
and have rebelled:
thou
hast
not pardoned
.
You
have
covered Yourself
in
anger and pursued
us ;
You
have
killed
without
pity
.
Thou
hast
covered with
anger ,
and persecuted
us :
thou
hast
slain,
thou
hast
not
pitied
.
You
have
covered Yourself
with a cloud that no
prayer can
pass through.
Thou
hast
covered thyself
with a cloud ,
that our
prayer should
not
pass through.
You
have
made us scum
and refuse among
the nations
.
Thou
hast
made us as
the
offscouring
and refuse in
the midst
of
the
people
.
All our enemies open
their mouths against us.
All our enemies have
opened
their mouths against us.
Panic
and pitfall
have
come upon us —
devastation
and destruction.
Fear
and a
snare
is
come upon us ,
desolation
and destruction.
Streams
of tears
flow
from
my
eyes
over
the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Mine
eye
runneth
down
with
rivers
of water
for
the destruction of the daughter of my people.
My
eyes
overflow
unceasingly
, without
relief
,
Mine
eye
trickleth
down
, and
ceaseth
not
, without
any
intermission.
until
the LORD looks
down from heaven and
sees
.
Till
the LORD look
down ,
and
behold
from heaven.
My
eyes
bring
grief
to
my
soul
because of all the daughters of my city.
Mine
eye
affecteth
mine
heart
because of all the daughters of my city.
Without
cause
my
enemies hunted
me like a bird.
Mine
enemies chased
me sore,
like a bird ,
without
cause
.
They dropped
me
alive
into
a
pit
and cast stones
upon me.
They have
cut
off
my
life
in
the
dungeon,
and cast a
stone
upon me.
The
waters flowed over my
head ,
and
I thought
I was
going
to
die
.
Waters flowed over mine
head ;
then
I said,
I am
cut
off
.
I called on
Your
name, O LORD, out of the depths
of
the
Pit
.
I called upon
thy
name, O LORD, out of the low
dungeon
.
You
heard my plea
: “Do
not ignore
my cry for
relief
. ”
Thou
hast
heard my voice
: hide
not thine
ear
at
my breathing,
at
my
cry.
You
drew
near when
I called on
You;
You
said
, “Do
not be
afraid
. ”
Thou
drewest
near in
the
day
that
I called upon
thee:
thou
saidst
, Fear
not.
You
defend
my
cause,
O Lord; You
redeem
my life.
O LORD ,
thou
hast
pleaded
the
causes
of
my
soul
; thou
hast
redeemed
my life.
You
have
seen,
O LORD, the
wrong done
to
me;
vindicate
my cause !
O LORD, thou
hast
seen
my
wrong :
judge
thou
my cause .
You
have
seen all their malice,
all their plots
against me.
Thou
hast
seen all their vengeance
and
all their imaginations
against me.
O
LORD,
You
have
heard their insults
, all their plots
against me —
Thou
hast
heard their reproach
, O
LORD,
and
all their imaginations
against me ;
the slander
and
murmuring
of my
assailants
against me all day long
.
The lips
of those
that
rose
up
against me ,
and
their
device
against
me
all the
day.
When
they
sit
and
when
they
rise
, see
how
they
mock
me
in
song
.
Behold
their
sitting
down
, and
their
rising
up;
I
am
their
musick
.
You
will
pay
them back
what
they
deserve
, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Render
unto
them a
recompence
, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Put
a
veil
of anguish
over
their
hearts;
may
Your
curse be
upon
them !
Give
them
sorrow
of heart,
thy
curse unto
them .
You
will
pursue
them in anger and
exterminate
them
from under Your
heavens ,
O
LORD.
Persecute
and
destroy
them in anger from under the
heavens of
the
LORD.
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