| New American Standard Bible 1995 | New International Version |
| 1I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath. | 1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD's wrath. |
| 2He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. | 2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light; |
| 3Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day. | 3indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long. |
| 4He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones. | 4He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones. |
| 5He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship. | 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. |
| 6In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead. | 6He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead. |
| 7He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy. | 7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains. |
| 8Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer. | 8Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer. |
| 9He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. | 9He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked. |
| 10He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places. | 10Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding, |
| 11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate. | 11he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help. |
| 12He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow. | 12He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows. |
| 13He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts. | 13He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver. |
| 14I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day. | 14I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long. |
| 15He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood. | 15He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink. |
| 16He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust. | 16He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust. |
| 17My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness. | 17I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. |
| 18So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has 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 my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness. | 19I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. |
| 20Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me. | 20I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. |
| 21This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. | 21Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: |
| 22The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions 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 have 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 person who seeks Him. | 25The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; |
| 26It is good that he waits silently 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 should bear The yoke in his youth. | 27It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. |
| 28Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him. | 28Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him. |
| 29Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope. | 29Let him bury his face in the dust-- there may yet be hope. |
| 30Let him give his cheek to the smiter, 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 reject forever, | 31For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. |
| 32For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness. | 32Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. |
| 33For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men. | 33For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone. |
| 34To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land, | 34To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land, |
| 35To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High, | 35to deny people their rights before the Most High, |
| 36To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve. | 36to deprive them of justice-- would not the Lord see such things? |
| 37Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it? | 37Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? |
| 38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth? | 38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? |
| 39Why should any living mortal, or any man, Offer complaint in view of his sins? | 39Why should the living complain when punished for their sins? |
| 40Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD. | 40Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD. |
| 41We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven; | 41Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say: |
| 42We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned. | 42"We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven. |
| 43You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and have not spared. | 43"You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity. |
| 44You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through. | 44You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through. |
| 45You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples. | 45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. |
| 46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. | 46"All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us. |
| 47Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction; | 47We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction." |
| 48My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. | 48Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. |
| 49My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping, | 49My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief, |
| 50Until the LORD looks down And sees from heaven. | 50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. |
| 51My eyes bring pain 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. |
| 52My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird; | 52Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird. |
| 53They have silenced me in the pit And have placed a stone on me. | 53They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me; |
| 54Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!" | 54the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish. |
| 55I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit. | 55I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the pit. |
| 56You have heard my voice, "Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help." | 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 fear!" | 57You came near when I called you, and you said, "Do not fear." |
| 58O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life. | 58You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life. |
| 59O LORD, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case. | 59LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause! |
| 60You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me. | 60You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me. |
| 61You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me. | 61LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me-- |
| 62The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long. | 62what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long. |
| 63Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song. | 63Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs. |
| 64You will recompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands. | 64Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done. |
| 65You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them. | 65Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them! |
| 66You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD! | 66Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD. |
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