The Prophet’s Afflictions 1 CPDV ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation. BSB BSB: I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
2 CPDV ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light. BSB BSB: He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
3 CPDV ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long. BSB BSB: Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
4 CPDV BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones. BSB BSB: He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
5 CPDV BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship. BSB BSB: He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 CPDV BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead. BSB BSB: He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
7 CPDV GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement. BSB BSB: He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
8 CPDV GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer. BSB BSB: Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9 CPDV GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths. BSB BSB: He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
10 CPDV DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding. BSB BSB: He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
11 CPDV DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation. BSB BSB: He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
12 CPDV DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows. BSB BSB: He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
13 CPDV HE. He has shot into my kidneys the daughters of his quiver. BSB BSB: He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
14 CPDV HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day. BSB BSB: I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15 CPDV HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood. BSB BSB: He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
16 CPDV VAU. And he has broken each one of my teeth; he has fed me with ashes. BSB BSB: He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
17 CPDV VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good. BSB BSB: My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 CPDV VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.” BSB BSB: So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
The Prophet’s Hope 19 CPDV ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall. BSB BSB: Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
20 CPDV ZAIN. I will call to mind the past, and my soul shall languish within me. BSB BSB: Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
21 CPDV ZAIN. These recollections are in my heart; therefore, I shall hope. BSB BSB: Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
23 CPDV HETH. I know it at first light; great is your faithfulness. BSB BSB: They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
24 CPDV HETH. “The Lord is my portion,” said my soul. Because of this, I will wait for him. BSB BSB: “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
25 CPDV TETH. The Lord is good to those who hope in 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 CPDV TETH. It is good to stand ready in silence for the salvation of God. BSB BSB: It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
27 CPDV TETH. It is good for a man, when he has carried the yoke from his youth. BSB BSB: It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
28 CPDV JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself. BSB BSB: Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.
29 CPDV JOD. He shall place his mouth in the dirt, if perhaps there may be hope. BSB BSB: Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.
30 CPDV JOD. He shall give his cheek to those who strike him; he shall be saturated with reproaches. BSB BSB: Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
31 CPDV CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever. BSB BSB: For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
32 CPDV CAPH. For, if he has cast down, he will also 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 CPDV CAPH. For he has not humiliated from his heart, nor has he thrown aside the sons of men, BSB BSB: For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
34 CPDV LAMED. as if to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land, BSB BSB: To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
35 CPDV LAMED. as if to turn aside the judgment of a man in the sight of the presence of the Most High, BSB BSB: to deny a man justice before the Most High,
36 CPDV LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this. BSB BSB: to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
God’s Justice 37 CPDV MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command? BSB BSB: Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
38 CPDV MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High? BSB BSB: Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
39 CPDV MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins? BSB BSB: Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
40 CPDV NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord. BSB BSB: Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
41 CPDV NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens. BSB BSB: Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
42 CPDV NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless. BSB BSB: “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
43 CPDV SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared. BSB BSB: You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
44 CPDV SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through. BSB BSB: You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
45 CPDV SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out. BSB BSB: You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46 CPDV PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us. BSB BSB: All our enemies open their mouths against us.
47 CPDV PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief. BSB BSB: Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
48 CPDV PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition 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 CPDV AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest BSB BSB: My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
50 CPDV AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens. BSB BSB: until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 CPDV AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city. BSB BSB: My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
52 CPDV SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason. BSB BSB: Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
53 CPDV SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me. BSB BSB: They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
54 CPDV SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, “I am lost.” BSB BSB: The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
55 CPDV COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit. BSB BSB: I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
56 CPDV COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries. BSB BSB: You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
57 CPDV COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, “Fear not.” BSB BSB: You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”
58 CPDV RES. You have judged, O Lord, the case of my soul. You are the Redeemer of my life. BSB BSB: You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
59 CPDV RES. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me. Judge my case. BSB BSB: You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
60 CPDV RES. You have seen all their fury, every one of their thoughts is against me. BSB BSB: You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
61 CPDV SIN. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their thoughts are against me. BSB BSB: O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
62 CPDV SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long. BSB BSB: the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
63 CPDV SIN. Watch their sitting down and their rising up: I am their psalm. BSB BSB: When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
64 CPDV THAU. You shall pay a recompense to them, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. BSB BSB: You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 CPDV THAU. You shall give them a heavy shield of the heart: your hardship. BSB BSB: Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!
66 CPDV THAU. You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord. BSB BSB: You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
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