Lamentations 3
3
1I [am] the man [who] hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
2Me He hath led, and causeth to go [in] darkness, and without light.
3Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.
4He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.
5He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.
7He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
8Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.
9He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
10A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.
11My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.
12He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.
13He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.
14I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
15He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me [with] wormwood.
16And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
17And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.
18And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.
19Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
20Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.
21This I turn to my heart — therefore I hope.
22The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.
23New every morning, abundant [is] thy faithfulness.
24My portion [is] Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.
25Good [is] Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul [that] seeketh Him.
26Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.
27Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.
28He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid [it] upon him.
29He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope.
30He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach.
31For the Lord doth not cast off to the age.
32For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.
33For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men.
34To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth,
35To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,
36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved.
37Who [is] this — he hath said, and it is, [And] the Lord hath not commanded [it]?
38From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.
39What — sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?
40We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
41We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.
42We — we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou — Thou hast not forgiven.
43Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain — Thou hast not pitied.
44Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.
45Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.
46Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
47Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.
48Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission,
50Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,
51My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
52Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.
53They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.
54Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
55I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.
56My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing — at my cry.
57Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee, Thou hast said, Fear not.
58Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.
59Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause.
60Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.
61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me,
62The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.
63Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I [am] their song.
64Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands.
65Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them.
66Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!
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Lamentations 3
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1 ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.
2 ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.
3 ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.
4 BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
5 BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.
6 BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
7 GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.
8 GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
9 GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.
10 DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.
11 DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation.
12 DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.
13 HE. He has shot into my kidneys the daughters of his quiver.
14 HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day.
15 HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood.
16 VAU. And he has broken each one of my teeth; he has fed me with ashes.
17 VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good.
18 VAU. And I said, "My end and my hope from the Lord has perished."
19 ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
20 ZAIN. I will call to mind the past, and my soul shall languish within me.
21 ZAIN. These recollections are in my heart; therefore, I shall hope.
22 HETH. By the mercies of the Lord, we are not consumed. For his compassion has not passed away.
23 HETH. I know it at first light; great is your faithfulness.
24 HETH. "The Lord is my portion," said my soul. Because of this, I will wait for him.
25 TETH. The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him.
26 TETH. It is good to stand ready in silence for the salvation of God.
27 TETH. It is good for a man, when he has carried the yoke from his youth.
28 JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself.
29 JOD. He shall place his mouth in the dirt, if perhaps there may be hope.
30 JOD. He shall give his cheek to those who strike him; he shall be saturated with reproaches.
31 CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever.
32 CAPH. For, if he has cast down, he will also have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 CAPH. For he has not humiliated from his heart, nor has he thrown aside the sons of men,
34 LAMED. as if to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
35 LAMED. as if to turn aside the judgment of a man in the sight of the presence of the Most High,
36 LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this.
37 MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?
38 MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
39 MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?
40 NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.
41 NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.
42 NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.
43 SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.
44 SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.
45 SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.
46 PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.
47 PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.
48 PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.
49 AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest
50 AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.
51 AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city.
52 SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.
53 SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.
54 SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, "I am lost."
55 COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit.
56 COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries.
57 COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, "Fear not."
58 RES. You have judged, O Lord, the case of my soul. You are the Redeemer of my life.
59 RES. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me. Judge my case.
60 RES. You have seen all their fury, every one of their thoughts is against me.
61 SIN. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their thoughts are against me.
62 SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long.
63 SIN. Watch their sitting down and their rising up: I am their psalm.
64 THAU. You shall pay a recompense to them, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
65 THAU. You shall give them a heavy shield of the heart: your hardship.
66 THAU. You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord.
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