Lamentations 3
1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.
I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
[obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
in/on/with darkness to dwell me like/as to die forever: antiquity
7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
to wall up/off about/through/for me and not to come out: come to honor: heavy bronze my
8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
to wall up/off way: road my in/on/with cutting path my to twist
10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
bear to ambush he/she/it to/for me (lion *Q(K)*) in/on/with hiding
11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
way: journey my to turn aside: turn aside and to tear me to set: make me devastated
12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
to tread (bow his *L(abh)*) and to stand me like/as guardhouse to/for arrow
13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
to come (in): bring in/on/with kidney my son: type of quiver his
14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
15 He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
19 Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
20 My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
to remember to remember (and to sink *Q(K)*) upon me soul my
21 This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.
this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
22 It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
23 They are new every morning; great is your good faith.
new to/for morning many faithfulness your
24 I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.
portion my LORD to say soul my upon so to wait: hope to/for him
25 The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.
pleasant LORD (to/for to await him *Q(K)*) to/for soul to seek him
26 It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
pleasant and waiting and silence to/for deliverance: salvation LORD
27 It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
pleasant to/for great man for to lift: bear yoke in/on/with youth his
28 Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
30 Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.
to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
31 For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.
for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
32 For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *Q(K)*)
33 For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.
for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer (son: child *L(abh)*) man
34 In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
to/for to crush underneath: under foot his all prisoner land: country/planet
35 In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.
to/for to stretch justice great man before face Most High
36 In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.
to/for to pervert man in/on/with strife his Lord not to see: select
37 Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
38 Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
39 What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *Q(K)*)
40 Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
to search way: conduct our and to search and to return: return till LORD
41 Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
42 We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
43 Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
44 Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.
offscouring and refuse to set: make us in/on/with entrails: among [the] people
46 The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.
to open upon us lip their all enemy our
47 Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.
dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
48 Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
49 My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
50 Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.
till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
51 The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
eye my to abuse to/for soul: myself my from all daughter city my
52 They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
to destroy in/on/with pit life my and to give thanks stone in/on/with me
54 Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
to flow water upon head my to say to cut
55 I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
56 My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
57 You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.
to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
58 O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.
to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
59 O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.
to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
60 You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.
to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
61 Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;
to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
62 The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.
lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
63 Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.
seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
64 You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.
to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
65 You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.
to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
66 You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.
to pursue in/on/with face: anger and to destroy them from underneath: under heaven LORD
