For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
Parallel translations
- WEB For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
- KJV For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
- NKJV For all day long I have been plagued, And chastened every morning.
- NASB For I have been stricken all day long, And punished every morning.
- NLT I get nothing but trouble all day long; every morning brings me pain.
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Quick answer
Meanwhile he himself feels plagued all day long and punished every morning.
Overview
While the wicked prosper, Asaph experiences continual affliction, deepening the apparent unfairness. His suffering felt relentless and undeserved. Yet the psalm will reveal that the path of affliction leads not to ruin but to God's presence and glory, unlike the way of the wicked.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Heb 12:5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
- Ps 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
- Job 7:3–4So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
- Amos 3:2“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
- Jer 15:18Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
- Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
- 1 Pet 1:6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
- Job 7:18that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
- Job 10:3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
- Job 10:17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
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