1 GLT I am the man seeing affliction by the rod of his fury. BSB BSB: I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
2 GLT He led me and brought about darkness and not light. BSB BSB: He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
3 GLT Surely, against me he turned; his hand twisted all day. BSB BSB: Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
4 GLT He exhausted my flesh and my skin; he shattered my bones. BSB BSB: He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
5 GLT He built up against me and made a surrounding of bitterness and hardship. BSB BSB: He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 GLT He makes me dwell in dark places like the dead of long ago. BSB BSB: He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
7 GLT He built a wall around me and I cannot escape. He made my chains heavy. BSB BSB: He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
8 GLT Even though I call out and cry for help, he blocks my prayer. BSB BSB: Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9 GLT He built a wall around my way with hewn stone; he perverted my paths. BSB BSB: He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
10 GLT He is a bear ready to ambush me, a lion in hiding. BSB BSB: He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
11 GLT He disordered my paths and tore me apart; he has made me desolate. BSB BSB: He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
12 GLT He bent his bow and set me up like a target for an arrow. BSB BSB: He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
13 GLT He pierced my kidneys with the arrows of his quiver. BSB BSB: He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
14 GLT I became a joke to all the peoples, their taunt all day. BSB BSB: I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15 GLT He filled me with bitterness; he forced me to drink wormwood. BSB BSB: He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
16 GLT And he made my teeth grind with gravel; he made me cower in the dust. BSB BSB: He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
17 GLT And my soul is deprived of peace; I have forgotten good. BSB BSB: My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 GLT And I said,“My endurance has perished and my hope in Yahweh.” BSB BSB: So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
19 GLT Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and bitterness. BSB BSB: Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
20 GLT It continually remembers and my soul melts within me. BSB BSB: Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
21 GLT This I return to my heart; therefore, I have hope. BSB BSB: Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
23 GLT They are new morning by morning; great is your faithfulness. BSB BSB: They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
24 GLT “Yahweh is my portion,” my soul said; therefore, I will hope in him. BSB BSB: “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
25 GLT Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul seeking him. BSB BSB: The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
26 GLT It is good to wait and be silent for the salvation of Yahweh. BSB BSB: It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
27 GLT It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. BSB BSB: It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
28 GLT Let him sit alone and be silent when it is laid upon him. BSB BSB: Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.
29 GLT Let him put his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope. BSB BSB: Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.
30 GLT Let him give his cheek to the one striking him; let him be filled with reproach. BSB BSB: Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
31 GLT For the Lord will not withhold forever. BSB BSB: For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
32 GLT Though he brings grief, he will be merciful according to the abundance of his steadfast love. BSB BSB: Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
33 GLT For he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the sons of man. BSB BSB: For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
34 GLT Crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth; BSB BSB: To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
35 GLT denying a man justice before the face of the Most High; BSB BSB: to deny a man justice before the Most High,
36 GLT perverting a man in his dispute— the Lord does not approve. BSB BSB: to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
37 GLT Who has spoken this and it happened, if the Lord did not command? BSB BSB: Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
38 GLT Did not trouble and good come forth from the mouth of the Most High? BSB BSB: Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
39 GLT How can a person, a living man, complain about his guilt? BSB BSB: Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
40 GLT Let us examine our ways and let us seek and return to Yahweh. BSB BSB: Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
41 GLT Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in heaven. BSB BSB: Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
42 GLT We have surely transgressed and disobeyed you; you did not pardon. BSB BSB: “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
43 GLT You wrapped in anger and pursued us; you slayed; you showed no pity. BSB BSB: You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
44 GLT You wrapped yourself in a cloud, from a prayer passing through. BSB BSB: You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
45 GLT You made us an outcast and garbage among the nations. BSB BSB: You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46 GLT They open their mouth against us, all our enemies. BSB BSB: All our enemies open their mouths against us.
47 GLT Panic and pitfall have come for us, ruin and destruction. BSB BSB: Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
48 GLT My eyes flow with streams of water because the daughter of my people are destroyed. BSB BSB: Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 GLT My eye pours forth and it does not cease. There was no relief, BSB BSB: My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
50 GLT until he looked down and Yahweh saw from heaven. BSB BSB: until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 GLT My eyes grieve my soul 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 GLT Surely, my enemies hunted me like a bird without cause. BSB BSB: Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
53 GLT They silenced my life with a pit and threw a stone on me. BSB BSB: They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
54 GLT They made water overflow over my head. I said,‘I have been cut off!’ BSB BSB: The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
55 GLT I called your name, O Yahweh, from the depths of the pit. BSB BSB: I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
56 GLT You heard my voice.‘Do not shut your ear to my relief, to my cry for help.’ BSB BSB: You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
57 GLT You came near in the day I called you; you said,‘Do not fear.’ BSB BSB: You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”
58 GLT O Lord, you defended the dispute of my soul; you saved my life. BSB BSB: You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
59 GLT O Yahweh, you saw my affliction; judge my case. BSB BSB: You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
60 GLT You have seen all their insults, all their plots against me. BSB BSB: You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
61 GLT You have heard their scorn, O Yahweh, all their plots against me. BSB BSB: O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
62 GLT The lips of my assailants and their songs are against me all day. BSB BSB: the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
63 GLT Look! their sitting and rising, their songs are against me. BSB BSB: When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
64 GLT You, O Yahweh, will return to them a payment according to the deeds of their hands. BSB BSB: You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 GLT Give them an insolent heart; your condemnation be upon them! BSB BSB: Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!
66 GLT You pursue in anger and destroy them from under heaven, O Yahweh. BSB BSB: You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
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