Lamentations 3
1 ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.
I [am] the man [who] he has seen affliction by [the] rod of fury his.
2 ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.
Me he has driven and he has made walk darkness and not light.
3 ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.
Surely on me he returned he turned hand his all the day.
4 BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
He has made to waste away flesh my and skin my he has broken bones my.
5 BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.
He has built on me and he has surrounded [me] poison and hardship.
6 BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
In dark places he has caused to dwell me like dead people of antiquity.
7 GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.
He has walled up behind me and not I will go out he has made heavy bronze fetter[s] my.
8 GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
Also if I will cry out and I may cry for help he has shut out prayer my.
9 GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.
He has walled up ways my with hewn [stone] paths my he has made crooked.
10 DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.
[is] a bear Lying in wait he to me (a lion *Q(K)*) in hiding places.
11 DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation.
Ways my he has caused to deviate and he has torn in pieces me he has made me desolate.
12 DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.
He has bent (bow his *L(abh)*) and he has set up me like target for arrow.
13 HE. He has shot into my kidneys the daughters of his quiver.
He has brought in kidneys my [the] sons of quiver his.
14 HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day.
I have become a laughingstock to all people my taunt song their all the day.
15 HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood.
He has surfeited me with bitter things he has made drink me wormwood.
16 VAU. And he has broken each one of my teeth; he has fed me with ashes.
And he has broken with gravel teeth my he has made cower me in ash[es].
17 VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good.
And it has excluded from peace self my I have forgotten good.
18 VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.”
And I said it has perished endurance my and hope my from Yahweh.
19 ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
Remember affliction my and homelessness my wormwood and poison.
20 ZAIN. I will call to mind the past, and my soul shall languish within me.
Continually it remembers (so it may bow down *Q(K)*) on me self my.
21 ZAIN. These recollections are in my heart; therefore, I shall hope.
This I bring back to heart my there-fore I will wait.
22 HETH. By the mercies of the Lord, we are not consumed. For his compassion has not passed away.
[the] covenant loyalti of Yahweh for not we have met our end for not they come to an end compassion his.
23 HETH. I know it at first light; great is your faithfulness.
[they are] new To the mornings [is] great faithfulness your.
24 HETH. “The Lord is my portion,” said my soul. Because of this, I will wait for him.
[is] portion My Yahweh it has said self my there-fore I will wait for him.
25 TETH. The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him.
[is] good Yahweh (to [those who] wait for him *Q(K)*) to anyone [who] it will seek him.
26 TETH. It is good to stand ready in silence for the salvation of God.
[is] good And waiting and silently for [the] salvation of Yahweh.
27 TETH. It is good for a man, when he has carried the yoke from his youth.
[is] good For man that he will bear a yoke in youth his.
28 JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself.
Let him sit alone and let him be silent for he has laid [it] on him.
29 JOD. He shall place his mouth in the dirt, if perhaps there may be hope.
Let him put in the dust mouth his perhaps there [is] hope.
30 JOD. He shall give his cheek to those who strike him; he shall be saturated with reproaches.
Let him give to [the] [one who] strikes him a cheek let him be sated with reproach.
31 CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever.
For not he will reject for ever [the] Lord.
32 CAPH. For, if he has cast down, he will also have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.
That except he has caused grief and he will have compassion according to [the] greatness of (covenant loyalti his. *Q(K)*)
33 CAPH. For he has not humiliated from his heart, nor has he thrown aside the sons of men,
For not he has afflicted from heart his and he has grieved ([the] children of *L(abh)*) a man.
34 LAMED. as if to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
To crush under feet his 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,
To turn aside [the] justice of a man before [the] presence of [the] Most High.
36 LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this.
To subvert anyone in case at law his [the] Lord not he has seen.
37 MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?
Who? this has he spoken and it was [the] Lord not he commanded [it].
38 MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed 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 MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?
Why? will he complain a person living a man on (sins his. *Q(K)*)
40 NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.
Let us examine ways our and let us examine and let us return to Yahweh.
41 NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.
Let us lift up heart our to palms to God in the heavens.
42 NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.
We we have transgressed and we have rebelled you not you have forgiven.
43 SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.
You have covered yourself with anger and you have pursued us you have killed not you have spared.
44 SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.
You have covered with cloud yourself from passing through prayer of.
45 SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.
Scouring and refuse you have made us in [the] midst of the peoples.
46 PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.
They have opened on us mouth their all enemies our.
47 PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.
Terror and a pit it has happened to us devastation and brokenness.
48 PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.
Streams of water it goes down eye my on [the] brokenness of [the] daughter of people my.
49 AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest
Eye my it has poured itself and not it will cease from not stop.
50 AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.
Until he will look down and he will see Yahweh from heaven.
51 AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city.
Eye my it has dealt severely to self my from all [the] daughters of city my.
52 SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.
Certainly they hunted me like bird enemies my without cause.
53 SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.
They destroyed in the pit life my and they threw down a stone on me.
54 SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, “I am lost.”
They overflowed waters over head my I said I have been cut off.
55 COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit.
I called name your O Yahweh from a pit of lowest parts.
56 COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries.
Voice my you heard may not you hide ear your to relief my to cry for help my.
57 COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, “Fear not.”
You drew near on [the] day [when] I called on you you said may not you fear.
58 RES. You have judged, O Lord, the case of my soul. You are the Redeemer of my life.
You have conducted O Lord [the] cases of self my you have redeemed life my.
59 RES. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me. Judge my case.
You have seen O Yahweh oppression my judge! judgment my.
60 RES. You have seen all their fury, every one of their thoughts is against me.
You have seen all vengeance their all plans their to me.
61 SIN. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their thoughts are against me.
You have heard reproach their O Yahweh all plans their on me.
62 SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long.
[the] lips of [those who] rise against Me and muttering their on me all the day.
63 SIN. Watch their sitting down and their rising up: I am their psalm.
Sitting their and rising their look at! I [am] mocking song their.
64 THAU. You shall pay a recompense to them, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
You will repay to them recompense O Yahweh according to [the] work of hands their.
65 THAU. You shall give them a heavy shield of the heart: your hardship.
You will give to them shamelessness of heart curse your [may it belong] to them.
66 THAU. You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord.
You will pursue [them] in anger and you will destroy them from under [the] heavens of Yahweh.
