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1 I the man seeing affliction by the rod of his wrath. I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD’s wrath.
2 He led me and he brought darkness and not light. he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;
3 Surely he will turn back against me; he will turn his hand all the day. surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.
4 He wasted away my flesh and my skin; he broke my bones. He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
5 He built against me, and he will surround with poison and distress. he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 He caused me to dwell in darknesses as the dead of old. he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago. He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
7 He walled about me and I shall not go forth: he loaded my brass. He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy; He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.
8 Also when I shall exclaim and cry out, he stopped my prayer. though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9 He walled up my ways with hewn stones, he made crooked my beaten paths. he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
10 He is to me a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places. He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding; Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
11 He turned aside my ways and he will tear me in pieces: he set me a desolation. he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate; he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.
12 He bent his bow, he will set me up as a mark for the arrow. he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
13 He brought the sons of his quiver into my reins. He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver; He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
14 I was a derision to all my people; their song all the day. I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long. I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15 He filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink. He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood. He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.
16 He will break my teeth with gravel stones, he covered me with ashes. He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes; He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.
17 Thou wilt cast of my soul from peace: I forgat good. my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah: so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD.” So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.”
19 Remembering my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the poison. Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
20 Remembering, my soul will remember, and will be bowed down upon me. My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
21 I will turn this back to my heart; for this I shall hope. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
22 The mercies of Jehovah are that we were not consumed, for his compassions were not finished. The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
23 New for the mornings: great thy faithfulness. they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
24 Jehovah my portion, said my soul; for this I will hope toward him. “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
25 Good Jehovah to those waiting for him, to the soul that will seek him. The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
26 Good, and he shall wait and stand still for the salvation of Jehovah. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
27 Good for a man that he shall lift up the yoke in his youth. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.
28 He will sit alone and be silent, for he laid upon him. Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him; Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him.
29 He will give his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there is hope. let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope; Let him bury his face in the dust— there may yet be hope.
30 He will give the cheek to him striking him: he will be filled with reproach. let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults. Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.
31 For Jehovah will not cast of forever: For the Lord will not cast off forever, For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.
32 For if he afflicted, and he compassionated according to the multitude of his mercy. but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
33 For he afflicted not from his heart and grieved the sons of men, for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.
34 To crush under his feet all the bound of the earth, To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
35 To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High. to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, to deny people their rights before the Most High,
36 To pervert a man in his contention Jehovah saw not. to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve. to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?
37 Who this saying, And it shall be Jehovah commanding not? Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
38 From the mouth of the Most High shall not come forth evil and good. Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
39 Why shall a living man murmur? a man for his sin? Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins? Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
40 We will search out our ways, and examine and turn back even to Jehovah. Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD! Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
41 We will lift up our hearts upon the hands to God in the heavens. Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
42 We transgressed and resisted: thou forgavest not. “We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven. “We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
43 Thou didst cover with anger, and thou wilt pursue us: thou didst slay, thou didst not pity. “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
44 Thou didst cover over thyself with a cloud from a prayer passing through. you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through. You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
45 Thou didst set us the offscouring and despising in the midst of peoples. You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples. You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46 All our enemies opened their mouth against us. “All our enemies open their mouths against us; “All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
47 Fear and a snare were to us, desolation and breaking. panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction; We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”
48 Mine eye will bring down streams of water for the breaking of the daughter of my people. my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
49 Mine eye flowed and it will not be silent, from no intermission, “My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite, My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
50 Till Jehovah shall look forth and see from the heavens. until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees; until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 Mine eye will glean for my soul for all the daughters of my city. my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city. What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
52 Hunting, they hunted me as a bird, mine enemies, gratuitously. “I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause; Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
53 They cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone upon me. they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me; They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
54 Waters were spread over my head; I said I was cut off. water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’ the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.
55 I called thy name, O Jehovah, in the pit underneath. “I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit; I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the pit.
56 Thou heardest my voice: thou wilt not hide thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!’ You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”
57 Thou drewest near in the day I shall call thee: thou saidst, Thou shalt not fear. You came near when I called on you; you said, ‘Do not fear!’ You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”
58 Thou didst contend, O Jehovah, the contentions of my soul; thou didst redeem my life. “You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life. You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.
59 Thou sawest, O Jehovah, my bowing down: judge thou my judgment. You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause. LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
60 Thou sawest all their vengeance, all their purposes against me. You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
61 Thou heardest their reproach, O Jehovah, all their purposes against me. “You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me. LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
62 The lips of those rising up, and their devices against me all the day. The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long. what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
63 Their sitting and their rising, look thou: I their song. Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts. Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
64 Thou wilt turn back to them a retribution, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands. “You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done.
65 Thou wilt give to them a covering of heart, thy curse to them. You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them. Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
66 Thou wilt pursue in thine anger, and thou wilt destroy them from under the heavens, O Jehovah. You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD.” Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
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