What Does Psalm 73:14 Mean in the King James?

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

Psalm 73:14 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

“Plagued” carries the root sense of being struck by contact: suffering lands as an impact that keeps arriving.

THE MEANING

This line names pressure that fills the day and correction that returns each morning. It lets that rhythm be spoken without explaining its cause or promising that sincerity makes it stop.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A sincere heart guarantees an easy life. In the surrounding lines, the speaker’s daily affliction unsettles that expectation.

THE ROOT

נִגַּעְתִּי

niggaʿti

GROWS FROM

נגע

To touch, reach, or strike.

The word translated “plagued” grows from the same root as “touch” and “strike,” so the affliction is pictured as an impact, not just a general unease. Its repetition through the day gives that impact a persistent, bodily weight.

ALSO GROWS

nāgaʿ: To touch, reach, or strike.

נָגַע

This verb keeps the sense of impact inside the word translated “plagued.”

negaʿ: A blow, affliction, or plague.

נֶגַע

This noun shows how the root’s sense of striking can name an affliction itself.

THE PATTERN

Scripture lets faithful voices name repeated affliction without first resolving why it is happening.

And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

Job 7:18 · KJVJob gives voice to the relentless feeling of being examined moment after moment, including each morning.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 42:3 · KJVThe psalm names distress that persists across both day and night, without concealing its sting.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

2 Corinthians 4:8 · KJVThe verse speaks plainly of trouble and perplexity as lived realities, without treating them as the whole story.

THE THREAD

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:4 · KJV

Psalm 73’s “plagued” and Isaiah 53’s “stricken” share the Hebrew root ⁨נגע⁩ (nāgaʿ), the language of touching or striking. The shared root makes the felt impact visible while leaving the cause of suffering to each verse’s own words.

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