The Latin Vulgate VUL
New King James Version NKJV
1 ALEPH ego vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis eius
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I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
2 ALEPH me minavit et adduxit in tenebris et non in lucem
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He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
3 ALEPH tantum in me vertit et convertit manum suam tota die
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Surely He has turned His hand against me Time and time again throughout the day.
4 BETH vetustam fecit pellem meam et carnem meam contrivit ossa mea
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He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones.
5 BETH aedificavit in gyro meo et circumdedit me felle et labore
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He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.
6 BETH in tenebrosis conlocavit me quasi mortuos sempiternos
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He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago.
7 GIMEL circumaedificavit adversum me ut non egrediar adgravavit conpedem meam
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He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.
8 GIMEL sed et cum clamavero et rogavero exclusit orationem meam
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Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
9 GIMEL conclusit vias meas lapidibus quadris semitas meas subvertit
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He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
10 DELETH ursus insidians factus est mihi leo in absconditis
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He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush.
11 DELETH semitas meas subvertit et confregit me posuit me desolatam
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He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; He has made me desolate.
12 DELETH tetendit arcum suum et posuit me quasi signum ad sagittam
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He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow.
13 HE misit in renibus meis filias faretrae suae
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He has caused the arrows of His quiver To pierce my loins.
14 HE factus sum in derisu omni populo meo canticum eorum tota die
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I have become the ridicule of all my people-- Their taunting song all the day.
15 HE replevit me amaritudinibus inebriavit me absinthio
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He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood.
16 VAV et fregit ad numerum dentes meos cibavit me cinere
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He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes.
17 VAV et repulsa est anima mea oblitus sum bonorum
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You have moved my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.
18 VAV et dixi periit finis meus et spes mea a Domino
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And I said, "My strength and my hope Have perished from the Lord."
19 ZAI recordare paupertatis et transgressionis meae absinthii et fellis
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Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.
20 ZAI memoria memor ero et tabescet in me anima mea
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My soul still remembers And sinks within me.
21 ZAI hoc recolens in corde meo ideo sperabo
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This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
22 HETH misericordiae Domini quia non sumus consumpti quia non defecerunt miserationes eius
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Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.
23 HETH novae diluculo multa est fides tua
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They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
24 HETH pars mea Dominus dixit anima mea propterea expectabo eum
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"The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I hope in Him!"
25 TETH bonus est Dominus sperantibus in eum animae quaerenti illum
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The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him.
26 TETH bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Domini
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It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the Lord.
27 TETH bonum est viro cum portaverit iugum ab adulescentia sua
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It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.
28 IOTH sedebit solitarius et tacebit quia levavit super se
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Let him sit alone and keep silent, Because God has laid it on him;
29 IOTH ponet in pulvere os suum si forte sit spes
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Let him put his mouth in the dust-- There may yet be hope.
30 IOTH dabit percutienti se maxillam saturabitur obprobriis
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Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him, And be full of reproach.
31 CAPH quia non repellet in sempiternum Dominus
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For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32 CAPH quia si abiecit et miserebitur secundum multitudinem misericordiarum suarum
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Though He causes grief, Yet He will show compassion According to the multitude of His mercies.
33 CAPH non enim humiliavit ex corde suo et abiecit filios hominis
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For He does not afflict willingly, Nor grieve the children of men.
34 LAMED ut contereret sub pedibus suis omnes vinctos terrae
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To crush under one's feet All the prisoners of the earth,
35 LAMED ut declinaret iudicium viri in conspectu vultus Altissimi
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To turn aside the justice due a man Before the face of the Most High,
36 LAMED ut perverteret hominem in iudicio suo Dominus ignoravit
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Or subvert a man in his cause-- The Lord does not approve.
37 MEM quis est iste qui dixit ut fieret Domino non iubente
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Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, When the Lord has not commanded it?
38 MEM ex ore Altissimi non egredientur nec mala nec bona
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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That woe and well-being proceed?
39 MEM quid murmuravit homo vivens vir pro peccatis suis
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Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?
40 NUN scrutemur vias nostras et quaeramus et revertamur ad Dominum
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Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord;
41 NUN levemus corda nostra cum manibus ad Dominum in caelos
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Let us lift our hearts and hands To God in heaven.
42 NUN nos inique egimus et ad iracundiam provocavimus idcirco tu inexorabilis es
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We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.
43 SAMECH operuisti in furore et percussisti nos occidisti nec pepercisti
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You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.
44 SAMECH opposuisti nubem tibi ne transeat oratio
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You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That prayer should not pass through.
45 SAMECH eradicationem et abiectionem posuisti me in medio populorum
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You have made us an offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.
46 FE aperuerunt super nos os suum omnes inimici
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All our enemies Have opened their mouths against us.
47 FE formido et laqueus facta est nobis vaticinatio et contritio
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Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction.
48 FE divisiones aquarum deduxit oculus meus in contritione filiae populi mei
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My eyes overflow with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 AIN oculus meus adflictus est nec tacuit eo quod non esset requies
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My eyes flow and do not cease, Without interruption,
50 AIN donec respiceret et videret Dominus de caelis
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Till the Lord from heaven Looks down and sees.
51 AIN oculus meus depraedatus est animam meam in cunctis filiabus urbis meae
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My eyes bring suffering to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.
52 SADE venatione ceperunt me quasi avem inimici mei gratis
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My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird.
53 SADE lapsa est in lacu vita mea et posuerunt lapidem super me
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They silenced my life in the pit And threw stones at me.
54 SADE inundaverunt aquae super caput meum dixi perii
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The waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"
55 COPH invocavi nomen tuum Domine de lacis novissimis
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I called on Your name, O Lord, From the lowest pit.
56 COPH vocem meam audisti ne avertas aurem tuam a singultu meo et clamoribus
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You have heard my voice: "Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help."
57 COPH adpropinquasti in die quando invocavi te dixisti ne timeas
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You drew near on the day I called on You, And said, "Do not fear!"
58 RES iudicasti Domine causam animae meae redemptor vitae meae
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O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul; You have redeemed my life.
59 RES vidisti Domine iniquitatem adversum me iudica iudicium meum
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O Lord, You have seen how I am wronged; Judge my case.
60 RES vidisti omnem furorem universas cogitationes eorum adversum me
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You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
61 SEN audisti obprobria eorum Domine omnes cogitationes eorum adversum me
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You have heard their reproach, O Lord, All their schemes against me,
62 SEN labia insurgentium mihi et meditationes eorum adversum me tota die
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The lips of my enemies And their whispering against me all the day.
63 SEN sessionem eorum et resurrectionem eorum vide ego sum psalmus eorum
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Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their taunting song.
64 THAU reddes eis vicem Domine iuxta opera manuum suarum
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Repay them, O Lord, According to the work of their hands.
65 THAU dabis eis scutum cordis laborem tuum
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Give them a veiled heart; Your curse be upon them!
66 THAU persequeris in furore et conteres eos sub caelis Domine
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In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them From under the heavens of the Lord.
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