| Berean Study Bible | New International Version |
| 1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. | 1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD's wrath. |
| 2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. | 2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light; |
| 3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. | 3indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long. |
| 4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. | 4He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones. |
| 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. | 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. |
| 6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages. | 6He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead. |
| 7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains. | 7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains. |
| 8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. | 8Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer. |
| 9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. | 9He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked. |
| 10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush. | 10Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding, |
| 11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help. | 11he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help. |
| 12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow. | 12He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows. |
| 13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows. | 13He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver. |
| 14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long. | 14I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long. |
| 15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood. | 15He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink. |
| 16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust. | 16He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust. |
| 17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. | 17I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. |
| 18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.” | 18So I say, "My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD." |
| 19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall. | 19I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. |
| 20Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me. | 20I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. |
| 21Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope: | 21Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: |
| 22Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. | 22Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. |
| 23They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! | 23They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. |
| 24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.” | 24I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." |
| 25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. | 25The LORD is good to those whose hope is 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 quietly for the salvation of 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 him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him. |
| 29Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope. | 29Let him bury his face in the dust-- there may yet be 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 one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace. |
| 31For the Lord will not cast us off forever. | 31For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. |
| 32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion. | 32Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. |
| 33For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men. | 33For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone. |
| 34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land, | 34To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land, |
| 35to deny a man justice before the Most High, | 35to deny people their rights before the Most High, |
| 36to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve. | 36to deprive them of justice-- would not the Lord see such things? |
| 37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it? | 37Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not 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 both calamities and good things come? |
| 39Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins? | 39Why should the living complain when punished for their sins? |
| 40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD. | 40Let us examine our ways and test them, 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, and say: |
| 42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.” | 42"We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven. |
| 43You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity. | 43"You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity. |
| 44You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through. | 44You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through. |
| 45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. | 45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. |
| 46All our enemies open their mouths against us. | 46"All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us. |
| 47Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction. | 47We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin 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, | 49My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief, |
| 50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. | 50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. |
| 51My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city. | 51What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city. |
| 52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird. | 52Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird. |
| 53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me. | 53They tried to end my life 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, and I thought I was about to perish. |
| 55I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit. | 55I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the 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 when I called you, and you said, "Do not fear." |
| 58You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life. | 58You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life. |
| 59You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause! | 59LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause! |
| 60You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me. | 60You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me. |
| 61O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me— | 61LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me-- |
| 62the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long. | 62what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long. |
| 63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song. | 63Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs. |
| 64You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. | 64Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done. |
| 65Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them! | 65Put a veil over their hearts, and 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 destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD. |
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