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Jeremiah Shares Israel’s Affliction | ||||
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| 1 I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath. | 1 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. | 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. | 1 Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation. | 1 I am the man who hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath. | 2 He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. | 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. | 2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. | 2 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. | 2 Me He hath led, and causeth to go in darkness, and without light. | 3 Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day. | 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. | 3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day. | 3 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day. | 3 Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day. | 4 He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones. | 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. | 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. | 4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones. | 4 He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones. | 5 He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship. | 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. | 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. | 5 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour. | 5 He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 6 In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead. | 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. | 6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. | 6 Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. | 6 In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old. | 7 He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy. | 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. | 7 He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy. | 7 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. | 7 He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter. | 8 Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer. | 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. | 8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer. | 8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. | 8 Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer. | 9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. | 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. | 9 He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. | 9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. | 9 He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked. | 10 He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places. | 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. | 10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. | 10 Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places. | 10 A bear lying in wait He is to me, A lion in secret hiding-places. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate. | 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. | 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. | 11 Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate. | 11 My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation. | 12 He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow. | 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. | 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. | 12 Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows. | 12 He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow. | 13 He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts. | 13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. | 13 He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. | 13 He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver. | 13 He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver. | 14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day. | 14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. | 14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. | 14 He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long. | 14 I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day. | 15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood. | 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. | 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood. | 15 He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. | 15 He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust. | 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. | 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes. | 16 Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes. | 16 And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes. | 17 My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness. | 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. | 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity. | 17 Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things. | 17 And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity. | 18 So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD." | 18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: | 18 And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah. | 18 Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord. | 18 And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah. | Hope of Relief in God’s Mercy |
| 19 Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness. | 19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. | 19 Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. | 19 Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall. | 19 Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall! | 20 Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me. | 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. | 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me. | 20 Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me. | 20 Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 21 This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. | 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. | 21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. | 21 Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope. | 21 This I turn to my heart -- therefore I hope. | 22 The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. | 22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. | 22 It is of Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. | 22 Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed. | 22 The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies. | 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. | 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. | 23 They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. | 23 Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness. | 23 New every morning, abundant is thy faithfulness. | 24 "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I have hope in Him." | 24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. | 24 Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. | 24 Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him. | 24 My portion is Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him. | 25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him. | 25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. | 25 Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. | 25 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. | 25 Good is Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul that seeketh Him. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 26 It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD. | 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. | 26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. | 26 Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God. | 26 Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah. | 27 It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth. | 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth. | 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. | 27 Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth. | 27 Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth. | 28 Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him. | 28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. | 28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. | 28 Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself. | 28 He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid it upon him. | 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope. | 29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. | 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. | 29 Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. | 29 He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope. | 30 Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach. | 30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. | 30 Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach. | 30 Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches. | 30 He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 31 For the Lord will not reject forever, | 31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever: | 31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever. | 31 Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever. | 31 For the Lord doth not cast off to the age. | 32 For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness. | 32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. | 32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. | 32 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies. | 32 For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness. | 33 For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men. | 33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. | 33 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. | 33 Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men. | 33 For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men. | 34 To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land, | 34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth. | 34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, | 34 Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land, | 34 To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth, | 35 To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High, | 35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, | 35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, | 35 Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High, | 35 To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High, | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 36 To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve. | 36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not. | 36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. | 36 Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved. | 36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved. | 37 Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it? | 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? | 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? | 37 Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not? | 37 Who is this -- he hath said, and it is, And the Lord hath not commanded it? | 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth? | 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? | 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good? | 38 Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest? | 38 From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good. | 39 Why should any living mortal, or any man, Offer complaint in view of his sins? | 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? | 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? | 39 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? | 39 What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin? | 40 Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD. | 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. | 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. | 40 Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord. | 40 We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 41 We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven; | 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. | 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. | 41 Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens. | 41 We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens. | 42 We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned. | 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. | 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned. | 42 Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable. | 42 We -- we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou -- Thou hast not forgiven. | 43 You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and have not spared. | 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. | 43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. | 43 Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared. | 43 Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain -- Thou hast not pitied. | 44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through. | 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. | 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. | 44 Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through. | 44 Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through. | 45 You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples. | 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. | 45 Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. | 45 Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people. | 45 Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. | 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. | 46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. | 46 Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. | 46 Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies. | 47 Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction; | 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. | 47 Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction. | 47 Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction. | 47 Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction. | 48 My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. | 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. | 48 Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. | 48 Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. | 48 Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people. | 49 My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping, | 49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission. | 49 Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, | 49 Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest: | 49 Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission, | 50 Until the LORD looks down And sees from heaven. | 50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. | 50 Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven. | 50 Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens. | 50 Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens, | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 51 My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city. | 51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. | 51 Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. | 51 Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city. | 51 My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city. | 52 My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird; | 52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. | 52 They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. | 52 Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause. | 52 Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause. | 53 They have silenced me in the pit And have placed a stone on me. | 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. | 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. | 53 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. | 53 They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me. | 54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!" | 54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. | 54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. | 54 Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off. | 54 Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off. | 55 I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit. | 55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. | 55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon. | 55 Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit. | 55 I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 56 You have heard my voice, "Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help." | 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. | 56 Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. | 56 Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries. | 56 My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing -- at my cry. | 57 You drew near when I called on You; You said, "Do not fear!" | 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. | 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not. | 57 Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not. | 57 Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee, Thou hast said, Fear not. | 58 O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life. | 58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. | 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. | 58 Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life. | 58 Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life. | 59 O LORD, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case. | 59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. | 59 O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause. | 59 Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment. | 59 Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause. | 60 You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me. | 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. | 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. | 60 Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me. | 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me. | 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; | 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me, | 61 Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me. | 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me, | 62 The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long. | 62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. | 62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. | 62 Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day. | 62 The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day. | 63 Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song. | 63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick. | 63 Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. | 63 Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song. | 63 Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I am their song. | 64 You will recompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands. | 64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. | 64 Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands. | 64 Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. | 64 Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands. | 65 You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them. | 65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. | 65 Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them. | 65 Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour. | 65 Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them. | NASB | KJV | ASV | DRB | YLT |
| 66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD! | 66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. | 66 Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah. | 66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord. | 66 Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah! |
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