< Lamentations 3 >

1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
I [am] the man [who] he has seen affliction by [the] rod of fury his.
2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
Me he has driven and he has made walk darkness and not light.
3 Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
Surely on me he returned he turned hand his all the day.
4 He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
He has made to waste away flesh my and skin my he has broken bones my.
5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
He has built on me and he has surrounded [me] poison and hardship.
6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
In dark places he has caused to dwell me like dead people of antiquity.
7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
He has walled up behind me and not I will go out he has made heavy bronze fetter[s] my.
8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Also if I will cry out and I may cry for help he has shut out prayer my.
9 He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
He has walled up ways my with hewn [stone] paths my he has made crooked.
10 He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
[is] a bear Lying in wait he to me (a lion *Q(K)*) in hiding places.
11 He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
Ways my he has caused to deviate and he has torn in pieces me he has made me desolate.
12 He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
He has bent (bow his *L(abh)*) and he has set up me like target for arrow.
13 He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
He has brought in kidneys my [the] sons of quiver his.
14 I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
I have become a laughingstock to all people my taunt song their all the day.
15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
He has surfeited me with bitter things he has made drink me wormwood.
16 He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
And he has broken with gravel teeth my he has made cower me in ash[es].
17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
And it has excluded from peace self my I have forgotten good.
18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
And I said it has perished endurance my and hope my from Yahweh.
19 Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Remember affliction my and homelessness my wormwood and poison.
20 Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
Continually it remembers (so it may bow down *Q(K)*) on me self my.
21 Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
This I bring back to heart my there-fore I will wait.
22 Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
[the] covenant loyalti of Yahweh for not we have met our end for not they come to an end compassion his.
23 They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
[they are] new To the mornings [is] great faithfulness your.
24 “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
[is] portion My Yahweh it has said self my there-fore I will wait for him.
25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
[is] good Yahweh (to [those who] wait for him *Q(K)*) to anyone [who] it will seek him.
26 It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
[is] good And waiting and silently for [the] salvation of Yahweh.
27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
[is] good For man that he will bear a yoke in youth his.
28 Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.
Let him sit alone and let him be silent for he has laid [it] on him.
29 Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope.
Let him put in the dust mouth his perhaps there [is] hope.
30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
Let him give to [the] [one who] strikes him a cheek let him be sated with reproach.
31 For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
For not he will reject for ever [the] Lord.
32 Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
That except he has caused grief and he will have compassion according to [the] greatness of (covenant loyalti his. *Q(K)*)
33 For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
For not he has afflicted from heart his and he has grieved ([the] children of *L(abh)*) a man.
34 To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
To crush under feet his all [the] prisoners of [the] land.
35 to deny a man justice before the Most High,
To turn aside [the] justice of a man before [the] presence of [the] Most High.
36 to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
To subvert anyone in case at law his [the] Lord not he has seen.
37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
Who? this has he spoken and it was [the] Lord not he commanded [it].
38 Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
From [the] mouth of [the] Most High not does it goes forth? the troubles and the good.
39 Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
Why? will he complain a person living a man on (sins his. *Q(K)*)
40 Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
Let us examine ways our and let us examine and let us return to Yahweh.
41 Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
Let us lift up heart our to palms to God in the heavens.
42 “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
We we have transgressed and we have rebelled you not you have forgiven.
43 You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
You have covered yourself with anger and you have pursued us you have killed not you have spared.
44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
You have covered with cloud yourself from passing through prayer of.
45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
Scouring and refuse you have made us in [the] midst of the peoples.
46 All our enemies open their mouths against us.
They have opened on us mouth their all enemies our.
47 Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.
Terror and a pit it has happened to us devastation and brokenness.
48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Streams of water it goes down eye my on [the] brokenness of [the] daughter of people my.
49 My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
Eye my it has poured itself and not it will cease from not stop.
50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
Until he will look down and he will see Yahweh from heaven.
51 My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
Eye my it has dealt severely to self my from all [the] daughters of city my.
52 Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
Certainly they hunted me like bird enemies my without cause.
53 They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
They destroyed in the pit life my and they threw down a stone on me.
54 The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
They overflowed waters over head my I said I have been cut off.
55 I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
I called name your O Yahweh from a pit of lowest parts.
56 You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
Voice my you heard may not you hide ear your to relief my to cry for help my.
57 You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”
You drew near on [the] day [when] I called on you you said may not you fear.
58 You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
You have conducted O Lord [the] cases of self my you have redeemed life my.
59 You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
You have seen O Yahweh oppression my judge! judgment my.
60 You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
You have seen all vengeance their all plans their to me.
61 O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
You have heard reproach their O Yahweh all plans their on me.
62 the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
[the] lips of [those who] rise against Me and muttering their on me all the day.
63 When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
Sitting their and rising their look at! I [am] mocking song their.
64 You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
You will repay to them recompense O Yahweh according to [the] work of hands their.
65 Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!
You will give to them shamelessness of heart curse your [may it belong] to them.
66 You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
You will pursue [them] in anger and you will destroy them from under [the] heavens of Yahweh.

< Lamentations 3 >