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For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Psalms 73:14 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
  • BSB For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
  • ESV For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked 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 ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
  • Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
  • Job 7:3–4So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
  • Amos 3:2You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
  • Jer 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
  • Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
  • 1 Pet 1:6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
  • Job 7:18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
  • Job 10:3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
  • Job 10:17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

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.

How Psalms 73:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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