| Berean Study Bible | NET Bible |
| 1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. | 1I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath. |
| 2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. | 2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light. |
| 3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. | 3He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long. |
| 4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. | 4He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones. |
| 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. | 5He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship. |
| 6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages. | 6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago. |
| 7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains. | 7He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains. |
| 8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. | 8Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer. |
| 9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. | 9He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. |
| 10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush. | 10To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey. |
| 11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help. | 11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate. |
| 12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow. | 12He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow. |
| 13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows. | 13He shot his arrows into my heart. |
| 14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long. | 14I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long. |
| 15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood. | 15He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness. |
| 16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust. | 16He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust. |
| 17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. | 17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is. |
| 18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.” | 18So I said, "My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the LORD." |
| 19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall. | 19Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison. |
| 20Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me. | 20I continually think about this, and I am depressed. |
| 21Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope: | 21But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope: |
| 22Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. | 22The LORD's loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end. |
| 23They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! | 23They are fresh every morning; your faithfulness is abundant! |
| 24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.” | 24"My portion is the Lord," I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him. |
| 25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. | 25The LORD is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him. |
| 26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. | 26It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the LORD. |
| 27It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young. | 27It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. |
| 28Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him. | 28Let a person sit alone in silence, when the LORD is disciplining him. |
| 29Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope. | 29Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope. |
| 30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach. | 30Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; let him have his fill of insults. |
| 31For the Lord will not cast us off forever. | 31For the Lord will not reject us forever. |
| 32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion. | 32Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness. |
| 33For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men. | 33For he is not predisposed to afflict or to grieve people. |
| 34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land, | 34To crush underfoot all the earth's prisoners, |
| 35to deny a man justice before the Most High, | 35to deprive a person of his rights in the presence of the Most High, |
| 36to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve. | 36to defraud a person in a lawsuit--the Lord does not approve of such things! |
| 37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it? | 37Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it? |
| 38Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High? | 38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes--both calamity and blessing? |
| 39Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins? | 39Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins? |
| 40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD. | 40Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the LORD. |
| 41Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: | 41Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven: |
| 42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.” | 42"We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven." |
| 43You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity. | 43You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy. |
| 44You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through. | 44You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through. |
| 45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. | 45You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations. |
| 46All our enemies open their mouths against us. | 46All our enemies have gloated over us; |
| 47Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction. | 47Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction. |
| 48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people. | 48Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. |
| 49My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief, | 49Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no break |
| 50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. | 50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees what has happened. |
| 51My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city. | 51What my eyes see grieves me--all the suffering of the daughters in my city. |
| 52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird. | 52For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird. |
| 53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me. | 53They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me. |
| 54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. | 54The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die. |
| 55I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit. | 55I have called on your name, O LORD, from the deepest pit. |
| 56You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.” | 56You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!" |
| 57You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.” | 57You came near on the day I called to you; you said, "Do not fear!" |
| 58You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life. | 58O Lord, you championed my cause, you redeemed my life. |
| 59You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause! | 59You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; pronounce judgment on my behalf! |
| 60You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me. | 60You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. |
| 61O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me— | 61You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me. |
| 62the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long. | 62My assailants revile and conspire against me all day long. |
| 63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song. | 63Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs. |
| 64You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. | 64Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to what they have done. |
| 65Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them! | 65Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them! |
| 66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD. | 66Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the LORD's heaven. |
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