| King James Bible | Berean Study Bible |
| 1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. | 1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. |
| 2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. | 2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. |
| 3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. | 3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. |
| 4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. | 4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. |
| 5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. | 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. |
| 6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. | 6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages. |
| 7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. | 7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains. |
| 8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. | 8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. |
| 9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. | 9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. |
| 10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. | 10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush. |
| 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. | 11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help. |
| 12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. | 12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow. |
| 13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. | 13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows. |
| 14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. | 14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long. |
| 15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. | 15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood. |
| 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. | 16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust. |
| 17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. | 17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. |
| 18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: | 18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.” |
| 19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. | 19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall. |
| 20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. | 20Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me. |
| 21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. | 21Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope: |
| 22It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. | 22Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. |
| 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. | 23They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! |
| 24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. | 24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.” |
| 25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. | 25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. |
| 26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. | 26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. |
| 27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. | 27It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young. |
| 28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. | 28Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him. |
| 29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. | 29Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope. |
| 30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. | 30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach. |
| 31For the Lord will not cast off for ever: | 31For the Lord will not cast us off forever. |
| 32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. | 32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion. |
| 33For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. | 33For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men. |
| 34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, | 34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land, |
| 35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, | 35to deny a man justice before the Most High, |
| 36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. | 36to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve. |
| 37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? | 37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it? |
| 38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? | 38Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High? |
| 39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? | 39Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins? |
| 40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. | 40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD. |
| 41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. | 41Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: |
| 42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. | 42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.” |
| 43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. | 43You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity. |
| 44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. | 44You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through. |
| 45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. | 45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. |
| 46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. | 46All our enemies open their mouths against us. |
| 47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. | 47Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction. |
| 48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. | 48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, | 49My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief, |
| 50Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. | 50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. |
| 51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. | 51My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city. |
| 52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. | 52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird. |
| 53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. | 53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me. |
| 54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. | 54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. |
| 55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. | 55I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit. |
| 56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. | 56You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.” |
| 57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. | 57You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.” |
| 58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. | 58You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life. |
| 59O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. | 59You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause! |
| 60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. | 60You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me. |
| 61Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; | 61O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me— |
| 62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. | 62the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long. |
| 63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick. | 63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song. |
| 64Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. | 64You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. |
| 65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. | 65Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them! |
| 66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. | 66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD. |
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