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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation
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3:1 |
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
I `am' the man `who' hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath. |
3:2 |
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. |
Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light. |
3:3 |
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. |
Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day. |
3:4 |
My flesh and my skin hath he made old: he hath broken my bones. |
He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones. |
3:5 |
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. |
He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness. |
3:6 |
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. |
In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old. |
3:7 |
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. |
He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter. |
3:8 |
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. |
Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer. |
3:9 |
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. |
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked. |
3:10 |
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. |
A bear lying in wait He `is' to me, A lion in secret hiding-places. |
3:11 |
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. |
My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation. |
3:12 |
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow. |
3:13 |
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. |
He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver. |
3:14 |
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. |
I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day. |
3:15 |
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. |
He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood. |
3:16 |
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. |
And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes. |
3:17 |
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. |
And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity. |
3:18 |
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: |
And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah. |
3:19 |
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall! |
3:20 |
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. |
Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me. |
3:21 |
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. |
This I turn to my heart -- therefore I hope. |
3:22 |
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. |
The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies. |
3:23 |
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. |
New every morning, abundant `is' thy faithfulness. |
3:24 |
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. |
My portion `is' Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him. |
3:25 |
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. |
Good `is' Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul `that' seeketh Him. |
3:26 |
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. |
Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah. |
3:27 |
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. |
Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth. |
3:28 |
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. |
He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid `it' upon him. |
3:29 |
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. |
He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope. |
3:30 |
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. |
He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach. |
3:31 |
For the Lord will not cast off for ever: |
For the Lord doth not cast off to the age. |
3:32 |
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. |
For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness. |
3:33 |
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. |
For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men. |
3:34 |
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, |
To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth, |
3:35 |
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, |
To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High, |
3:36 |
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. |
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved. |
3:37 |
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
Who `is' this -- he hath said, and it is, `And' the Lord hath not commanded `it'? |
3:38 |
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? |
From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good. |
3:39 |
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin? |
3:40 |
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. |
We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah. |
3:41 |
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. |
We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens. |
3:42 |
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. |
We -- we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou -- Thou hast not forgiven. |
3:43 |
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. |
Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain -- Thou hast not pitied. |
3:44 |
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. |
Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through. |
3:45 |
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. |
Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples. |
3:46 |
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. |
Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies. |
3:47 |
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. |
Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction. |
3:48 |
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
3:49 |
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, |
Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission, |
3:50 |
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. |
Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens, |
3:51 |
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. |
My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city. |
3:52 |
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. |
Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause. |
3:53 |
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. |
They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me. |
3:54 |
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. |
Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off. |
3:55 |
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. |
I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit. |
3:56 |
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing -- at my cry. |
3:57 |
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. |
Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee, Thou hast said, Fear not. |
3:58 |
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. |
Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life. |
3:59 |
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. |
Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause. |
3:60 |
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. |
Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me. |
3:61 |
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; |
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me, |
3:62 |
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. |
The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day. |
3:63 |
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick. |
Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I `am' their song. |
3:64 |
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. |
Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands. |
3:65 |
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. |
Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them. |
3:66 |
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. |
Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah! |