Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.
Parallel translations
- KJV Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
- BSB because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
- 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 flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
- 2 Cor 4:9pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
- Lam 3:39–42Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
- Ps 147:6Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.
- Ps 90:7–9For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
- Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
- Ps 39:11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
- Lam 1:18“Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
- Ps 38:18For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.
- Dan 9:8–14Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
- 1 Sam 2:7–8Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
- 2 Chr 25:8But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”
- Ps 73:18–20Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
- Ps 30:6–7As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
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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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