You have been very hard on us, making us drink wine that sent us reeling.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
- KJV Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
- BSB You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
- NKJV You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us drink the wine of confusion.
- NASB You have made Your people experience hardship; You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.
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Quick answer
David admits God has shown his people hard things, making them stagger as if drunk on bitter wine. It honestly names suffering as coming from God's hand.
Overview
David does not deny the severity of Israel's experience, comparing it to wine that leaves them reeling. He recognizes God's sovereign hand even in painful discipline. Such honesty before God, neither blaming nor despairing, is the mark of mature faith that trusts God's purposes even in hardship.
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Cross-references · 12
- Ps 71:20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
- Isa 51:17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
- Isa 51:22Thus says your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more:
- Jer 25:15For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
- Ezek 23:31–32You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.’
- Ps 75:8For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
- Dan 9:12He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
- Hab 2:16You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
- Neh 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
- Rev 18:16saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
- Rev 16:19The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
- Lam 4:21Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.
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