Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
I am the man who has
seen affliction under
the rod of God’s
wrath.
I `
am '
the man `
who '
hath
seen affliction By
the rod of His
wrath.
He
has
driven
me away
and made
me
walk
in darkness instead
of
light.
Me He
hath
led,
and causeth
to
go
`
in '
darkness ,
and
without
light.
Indeed
, He keeps
turning
His hand against
me
all day long
.
Surely
against
me
He
turneth
back
, He turneth
His hand all the
day.
He has
worn away
my flesh and skin ;
He has
shattered
my bones.
He hath
worn out
my flesh and my
skin .
He hath
broken
my bones.
He has
besieged
me and surrounded
me
with
bitterness
and hardship
.
He hath
built
up
against
me ,
And setteth
round
poverty
and weariness
.
He has
made
me dwell in
darkness
like
those
dead for
ages
.
In
dark
places
He hath
caused
me to
dwell ,
As
the
dead of
old
.
He has
walled
me in
so
I cannot
escape;
He has
weighed
me
down
with
chains
.
He hath
hedged
me about,
and
I go
not
out,
He hath
made
heavy
my
fetter
.
Even
when I cry out and
plead
for
help
, He shuts
out my prayer.
Also
when I call
and
cry out, He hath
shut
out my prayer.
He has
barred
my ways with cut
stones;
He
has
made
my paths crooked.
He hath
hedged
my ways with hewn
work,
My paths He
hath
made
crooked.
He
is
a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding
in ambush
.
A bear lying in wait He
`is'
to
me
, A lion in secret
hiding-places
.
He
forced
me
off
my path
and tore
me to
pieces ;
He left
me without
help
.
My ways
He
is
turning
aside,
and He
pulleth
me in
pieces ,
He hath
made
me a
desolation
.
He bent
His bow and set
me as the
target
for His
arrow.
He hath
trodden
His bow ,
And setteth
me up
as a
mark
for an
arrow.
He pierced
my kidneys
with
His arrows
.
He hath
caused
to
enter
into
my reins
The
sons
of
His quiver
.
I am
a laughingstock
to all my people ;
they
mock
me
in
song all day long
.
I have
been
a derision
to all my people ,
Their
song all the
day.
He has
filled me with bitterness;
He has
intoxicated
me with wormwood.
He hath
filled me with bitter
things,
He hath
filled
me `
with '
wormwood.
He has
ground
my
teeth
with gravel and
trampled
me in
the
dust
.
And
He breaketh
with gravel my
teeth,
He
hath
covered
me with
ashes
.
My soul has
been
deprived
of
peace;
I have forgotten what
prosperity is
.
And
Thou
castest
off
from
peace
my soul ,
I have forgotten prosperity.
So
I say, “
My strength has
perished,
along
with
my hope from the
LORD
. ”
And
I say, Perished
hath
my strength and
my hope from Jehovah
.
Remember my affliction and wandering
, the
wormwood and the
gall .
Remember my affliction and my
mourning
, Wormwood and gall !
Surely
my soul remembers
and
is
humbled
within
me.
Remember
well,
and
bow
down
doth
my soul in
me.
Yet
I
call
this to mind,
and
therefore I have
hope :
This I
turn
to my
heart
--
therefore I hope .
Because
of
the loving
devotion
of the
LORD
we are
not consumed, for His mercies never
fail
.
The kindnesses
of Jehovah!
For
we have
not been
consumed, For not
ended
have
His mercies.
They
are
new every morning ;
great
is Your
faithfulness !
New every morning ,
abundant
`
is '
thy
faithfulness .
“The
LORD
is
my portion, ”
says
my soul, “
therefore I will
hope in
Him. ”
My portion `is'
Jehovah
, hath
my soul said
, Therefore I hope for
Him.
The
LORD
is
good to those who
wait
for Him, to the soul who
seeks
Him.
Good `is'
Jehovah
to those waiting
for Him, To the soul `that'
seeketh
Him.
It
is
good to
wait
quietly
for the salvation of the
LORD
.
Good !
when
one
doth
stay
and
stand
still
For the salvation of Jehovah
.
It
is
good for a man to
bear
the
yoke
while
he is
still
young
.
Good for a man that
he beareth
a
yoke
in
his
youth
.
Let
him
sit
alone in
silence
, for God
has
disciplined
him.
He
sitteth
alone, and
is
silent,
For He
hath
laid
`it'
upon
him.
Let
him
bury
his
face
in the dust —
perhaps
there is still
hope.
He
putteth
in the dust his
mouth,
if
so
be
there is hope.
Let
him
offer
his
cheek
to the one
who
would
strike
him;
let
him
be
filled with reproach.
He
giveth
to his
smiter
the cheek,
He
is
filled with reproach.
For the Lord will
not cast us
off forever
.
For the Lord doth
not cast off to
the
age
.
Even
if
He causes
grief
, He will
show
compassion
according to His abundant
loving
devotion
.
For
though
He afflicted
, yet
He hath
pitied,
According to the
abundance
of
His kindness
.
For He does
not willingly
afflict
or
grieve the sons of men.
For He hath
not afflicted
with
His
heart,
Nor
doth
He
grieve the sons of men.
To crush
underfoot
all
the
prisoners
of the
land
,
To bruise
under
one's
feet
any
bound
ones
of earth
,
to deny
a man justice
before
the Most High,
To turn
aside
the
judgment
of
a man ,
Over-against
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 hath
not approved
.
Who has
spoken
and it came
to
pass
, unless
the Lord has
ordained
it?
Who `is'
this
--
he
hath
said,
and it is
, `And'
the Lord hath
not
commanded
`
it '
?
Do
not
both
adversity
and
good
come
from the mouth of the Most High ?
From the mouth of the Most High Go
not
forth
the
evils
and
the
good.
Why
should
any
mortal
man complain
, in
view
of
his sins
?
What
--
sigh
habitually
doth
a
living
man, A
man
for
his sin
?
Let
us
examine
and
test
our ways, and turn back to
the
LORD
.
We
search
our ways, and investigate,
And
turn back unto
Jehovah
.
Let
us
lift up our hearts
and
hands to
God in heaven:
We
lift up our heart
on
the
hands unto
God in the
heavens.
“
We have sinned
and rebelled ;
You
have
not forgiven. ”
We --
we
have transgressed
and rebelled ,
Thou
--
Thou
hast
not forgiven.
You
have
covered Yourself
in
anger and pursued
us; You
have
killed
without
pity
.
Thou
hast
covered Thyself
with
anger ,
And dost
pursue
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 ,
So
that prayer doth
not
pass through.
You
have
made
us
scum
and refuse among
the nations
.
Offscouring
and refuse Thou
dost
make
us
In
the midst
of
the
peoples
.
All our enemies open
their
mouths
against
us
.
Opened
against
us
their
mouth
have
all our enemies.
Panic
and pitfall
have
come
upon
us —
devastation
and destruction.
Fear
and a
snare
hath
been
for
us ,
Desolation
and destruction.
Streams
of tears
flow
from
my eyes
over
the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Rivulets
of water
go
down
my eye,
For
the destruction of the daughter of my people.
My
eyes
overflow
unceasingly
, without relief
,
Mine
eye
is
poured
out
, And
doth
not
cease
without intermission
,
until
the
LORD
looks
down
from
heaven
and sees.
Till
Jehovah
looketh
and seeth
from
the
heavens,
My eyes
bring
grief
to
my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
My eye
affecteth
my soul ,
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Without
cause
my
enemies
hunted me like
a bird.
Hunted me sore
as
a bird have
my
enemies
without
cause
.
They dropped
me
alive
into
a pit and cast stones
upon
me.
They have
cut
off
in
a pit my
life,
And they
cast a
stone
against
me.
The
waters
flowed over my head, and
I thought
I was
going
to
die
.
Flowed have
waters
over my head, I have
said,
I have
been
cut
off
.
I called on
Your
name, O LORD
, out
of
the
depths
of
the Pit.
I called Thy
name, O Jehovah
, from
the lower
pit.
You
heard
my plea:
“Do
not ignore
my cry for
relief
. ”
My voice
Thou
hast
heard,
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
hast
drawn
near in
the
day
I call
Thee,
Thou
hast
said, Fear
not.
You
defend
my
cause
, O Lord ;
You
redeem
my life.
Thou
hast
pleaded
, O Lord ,
the
pleadings
of
my soul,
Thou
hast
redeemed
my
life.
You
have
seen, O LORD
, the
wrong
done
to
me;
vindicate
my cause !
Thou
hast
seen, O Jehovah
, my overthrow,
Judge
Thou
my
cause .
You
have
seen all their malice
, all their plots
against
me.
Thou
hast
seen all their vengeance
, All their thoughts
of
me.
O
LORD,
You
have
heard their insults
, all their plots
against me —
Thou
hast
heard their reproach
, O
Jehovah,
All their thoughts
against me ,
the slander
and
murmuring
of my assailants
against me all day long
.
The lips
of my withstanders,
Even
their
meditation
against me all the
day.
When
they
sit
and when
they
rise
, see
how
they
mock
me
in
song.
Their
sitting
down,
and their
rising
up
, Behold
attentively,
I
`am'
their
song.
You
will
pay
them back
what
they
deserve
, O LORD
, according to the work of their hands.
Thou
returnest
to
them the
deed
, O Jehovah
, According to the work of their hands.
Put
a veil
of
anguish
over
their
hearts;
may
Your
curse be
upon
them !
Thou
givest
to
them
a covered
heart,
Thy
curse to
them .
You
will
pursue
them
in anger and exterminate
them from under Your
heavens ,
O
LORD.
Thou
pursuest
in anger ,
and destroyest
them ,
From under the
heavens of
Jehovah!
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