The Prophet’s Afflictions 1 AKJV I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. BSB BSB: I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
2 AKJV He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. BSB BSB: He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
3 AKJV Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day. BSB BSB: Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
4 AKJV My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones. BSB BSB: He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
5 AKJV He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. BSB BSB: He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 AKJV He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. BSB BSB: He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
7 AKJV He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy. BSB BSB: He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
8 AKJV Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer. BSB BSB: Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9 AKJV He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked. BSB BSB: He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
10 AKJV He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. BSB BSB: He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
11 AKJV He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate. BSB BSB: He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
12 AKJV He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. BSB BSB: He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
13 AKJV He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. BSB BSB: He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
14 AKJV I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. BSB BSB: I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15 AKJV He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood. BSB BSB: He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
16 AKJV He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes. BSB BSB: He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
17 AKJV And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity. BSB BSB: My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 AKJV And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: BSB BSB: So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
The Prophet’s Hope 19 AKJV Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. BSB BSB: Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
20 AKJV My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. BSB BSB: Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
21 AKJV This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. BSB BSB: Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
23 AKJV They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness. BSB BSB: They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
24 AKJV The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him. BSB BSB: “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
25 AKJV The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. BSB BSB: The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
26 AKJV It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. BSB BSB: It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
27 AKJV It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth. BSB BSB: It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
28 AKJV He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him. BSB BSB: Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.
29 AKJV He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. BSB BSB: Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.
30 AKJV He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach. BSB BSB: Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
31 AKJV For the LORD will not cast off for ever: BSB BSB: For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
32 AKJV But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. BSB BSB: Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
33 AKJV For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. BSB BSB: For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
34 AKJV To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth. BSB BSB: To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
35 AKJV To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, BSB BSB: to deny a man justice before the Most High,
36 AKJV To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not. BSB BSB: to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
God’s Justice 37 AKJV Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not? BSB BSB: Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
38 AKJV Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good? BSB BSB: Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
39 AKJV Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? BSB BSB: Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
40 AKJV Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. BSB BSB: Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
41 AKJV Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. BSB BSB: Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
42 AKJV We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned. BSB BSB: “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
43 AKJV You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied. BSB BSB: You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
44 AKJV You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. BSB BSB: You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
45 AKJV You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people. BSB BSB: You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46 AKJV All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. BSB BSB: All our enemies open their mouths against us.
47 AKJV Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction. BSB BSB: Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
48 AKJV My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. BSB BSB: Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 AKJV My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission. BSB BSB: My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
50 AKJV Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. BSB BSB: until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 AKJV My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city. BSB BSB: My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
52 AKJV My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. BSB BSB: Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
53 AKJV They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone on me. BSB BSB: They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
54 AKJV Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off. BSB BSB: The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
55 AKJV I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. BSB BSB: I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
56 AKJV You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry. BSB BSB: You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
57 AKJV You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not. BSB BSB: You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”
58 AKJV O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life. BSB BSB: You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
59 AKJV O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause. BSB BSB: You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
60 AKJV You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. BSB BSB: You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
61 AKJV You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; BSB BSB: O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
62 AKJV The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. BSB BSB: the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
63 AKJV Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. BSB BSB: When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
64 AKJV Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. BSB BSB: You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 AKJV Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them. BSB BSB: Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!
66 AKJV Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. BSB BSB: You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
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