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| 1. | I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. | I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath. | I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. | ||
| 2. | He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. | By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light. | He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. | ||
| 3. | Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day. | Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day. | Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. | ||
| 4. | My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones. | My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken. | My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. | ||
| 5. | He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail. | He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. | He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. | ||
| 6. | He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. | He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead. | He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. | ||
| 7. | He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy. | He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain. | He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. | ||
| 8. | Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer. | Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out. | Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. | ||
| 9. | He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked. | He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted. | He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. | ||
| 10. | He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. | He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places. | He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. | ||
| 11. | He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate. | By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste. | He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. | ||
| 12. | He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. | With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows. | He hath 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. | He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body. | He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. | ||
| 14. | I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. | I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day. | I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. | ||
| 15. | He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood. | He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure. | He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. | ||
| 16. | He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes. | By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust. | He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. | ||
| 17. | You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity. | My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good. | And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. | ||
| 18. | I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh. | And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord. | And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: | ||
| 19. | Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. | Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison. | Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. | ||
| 20. | My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me. | My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me. | My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. | ||
| 21. | This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. | This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope. | This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. | ||
| 22. | [It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail. | It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit. | It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. | ||
| 23. | They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. | They are new every morning; great is your good faith. | They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. | ||
| 24. | Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him. | I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him. | The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. | ||
| 25. | Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. | The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him. | The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. | ||
| 26. | It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh. | It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord. | It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. | ||
| 27. | It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. | It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young. | 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. | Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him. | He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. | ||
| 29. | Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. | Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope. | He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. | ||
| 30. | Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach. | Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame. | He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. | ||
| 31. | For the Lord will not cast off forever. | For the Lord does not give a man up for ever. | For the LORD will not cast off for ever: | ||
| 32. | For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. | For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love. | But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. | ||
| 33. | For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. | For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men. | For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. | ||
| 34. | To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, | In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, | To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, | ||
| 35. | To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, | In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High. | To turn aside 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. | In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure. | To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not. | ||
| 37. | Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it? | Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord? | Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? | ||
| 38. | Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? | Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High? | Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? | ||
| 39. | Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? | What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin? | Wherefore doth 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. | Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord; | Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. | ||
| 41. | Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God{The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."} in the heavens. | Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens. | Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. | ||
| 42. | We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned. | We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness. | We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. | ||
| 43. | You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied. | Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity; | Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. | ||
| 44. | You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. | Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through. | Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. | ||
| 45. | You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. | You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples. | Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. | ||
| 46. | All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. | The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us. | All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. | ||
| 47. | Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction. | Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction. | Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. | ||
| 48. | My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. | Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for 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. | ||
| 49. | My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission, | My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest, | Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, | ||
| 50. | Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven. | Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven. | Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. | ||
| 51. | My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. | The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town. | Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. | ||
| 52. | They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. | They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird; | Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. | ||
| 53. | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. | They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones. | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. | ||
| 54. | Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. | Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off. | Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. | ||
| 55. | I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon. | I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison. | I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. | ||
| 56. | You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry. | My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry. | Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. | ||
| 57. | You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid. | You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear. | Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. | ||
| 58. | Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life. | O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe. | O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. | ||
| 59. | Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause. | O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause. | O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. | ||
| 60. | You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. | You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me. | Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. | ||
| 61. | You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me, | Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me; | Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; | ||
| 62. | The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. | The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day. | The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. | ||
| 63. | You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. | Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song. | Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick. | ||
| 64. | You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands. | You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands. | Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. | ||
| 65. | You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them. | You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them. | Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. | ||
| 66. | You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh. | You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord. | Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. | ||