because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
Parallel translations
- WEB Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.
- KJV Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
- NKJV Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; For You have lifted me up and cast me away.
- NASB Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; For You have lifted me up and thrown me away.
- NLT because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out.
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Quick answer
He traces his suffering to God's indignation, who lifted him up and cast him down. He sees God's hand even in his pain.
Overview
The psalmist attributes his affliction to God's wrath, feeling thrown aside after being raised up. This reflects an honest wrestling with God's sovereignty over suffering, without abandoning faith. Believers can likewise bring such hard questions to God, trusting that in Christ His wrath against His people has been borne and turned to mercy.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 38:3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
- 2 Cor 4:9persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.
- Lam 3:39–42Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
- Ps 147:6The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
- Ps 90:7–9For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
- Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
- Ps 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Lam 1:18The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
- Ps 38:18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
- Dan 9:8–14O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
- Lam 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
- 1 Sam 2:7–8The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
- 2 Chr 25:8Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
- Ps 73:18–20Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
- Ps 30:6–7In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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