Lamentations 3
1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
ἐγὼ ἀνὴρ ὁ βλέπων πτωχείαν ἐν ῥάβδῳ θυμοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐπ’ ἐμέ
2 Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
παρέλαβέν με καὶ ἀπήγαγεν εἰς σκότος καὶ οὐ φῶς
3 Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.
πλὴν ἐν ἐμοὶ ἐπέστρεψεν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν
4 My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.
ἐπαλαίωσεν σάρκας μου καὶ δέρμα μου ὀστέα μου συνέτριψεν
5 He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
ἀνῳκοδόμησεν κατ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ ἐκύκλωσεν κεφαλήν μου καὶ ἐμόχθησεν
6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.
ἐν σκοτεινοῖς ἐκάθισέν με ὡς νεκροὺς αἰῶνος
7 He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
ἀνῳκοδόμησεν κατ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐξελεύσομαι ἐβάρυνεν χαλκόν μου
8 Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
καί γε κεκράξομαι καὶ βοήσω ἀπέφραξεν προσευχήν μου
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
ἀνῳκοδόμησεν ὁδούς μου ἐνέφραξεν τρίβους μου ἐτάραξεν
10 He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.
ἄρκος ἐνεδρεύουσα αὐτός μοι λέων ἐν κρυφαίοις
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
κατεδίωξεν ἀφεστηκότα καὶ κατέπαυσέν με ἔθετό με ἠφανισμένην
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
ἐνέτεινεν τόξον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐστήλωσέν με ὡς σκοπὸν εἰς βέλος
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
εἰσήγαγεν τοῖς νεφροῖς μου ἰοὺς φαρέτρας αὐτοῦ
14 I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
ἐγενήθην γέλως παντὶ λαῷ μου ψαλμὸς αὐτῶν ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν
15 He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
ἐχόρτασέν με πικρίας ἐμέθυσέν με χολῆς
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
καὶ ἐξέβαλεν ψήφῳ ὀδόντας μου ἐψώμισέν με σποδόν
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
καὶ ἀπώσατο ἐξ εἰρήνης ψυχήν μου ἐπελαθόμην ἀγαθὰ
18 And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
καὶ εἶπα ἀπώλετο νεῖκός μου καὶ ἡ ἐλπίς μου ἀπὸ κυρίου
19 Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
ἐμνήσθην ἀπὸ πτωχείας μου καὶ ἐκ διωγμοῦ μου πικρίας καὶ χολῆς μου
20 My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
μνησθήσεται καὶ καταδολεσχήσει ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἡ ψυχή μου
21 — This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.
ταύτην τάξω εἰς τὴν καρδίαν μου διὰ τοῦτο ὑπομενῶ
22 It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
23 they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24 Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.
ἀγαθὸς κύριος τοῖς ὑπομένουσιν αὐτόν ψυχῇ ἣ ζητήσει αὐτὸν ἀγαθὸν
26 It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.
καὶ ὑπομενεῖ καὶ ἡσυχάσει εἰς τὸ σωτήριον κυρίου
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:
ἀγαθὸν ἀνδρὶ ὅταν ἄρῃ ζυγὸν ἐν νεότητι αὐτοῦ
28 He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;
καθήσεται κατὰ μόνας καὶ σιωπήσεται ὅτι ἦρεν ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ
29 he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;
30 he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.
δώσει τῷ παίοντι αὐτὸν σιαγόνα χορτασθήσεται ὀνειδισμῶν
31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever;
ὅτι οὐκ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἀπώσεται κύριος
32 but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:
ὅτι ὁ ταπεινώσας οἰκτιρήσει κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ ἐλέους αὐτοῦ
33 for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.
ὅτι οὐκ ἀπεκρίθη ἀπὸ καρδίας αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐταπείνωσεν υἱοὺς ἀνδρός
34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
τοῦ ταπεινῶσαι ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ πάντας δεσμίους γῆς
35 to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
τοῦ ἐκκλῖναι κρίσιν ἀνδρὸς κατέναντι προσώπου ὑψίστου
36 to wrong a man in his cause, — will not the Lord see it?
καταδικάσαι ἄνθρωπον ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαι αὐτὸν κύριος οὐκ εἶπεν
37 Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?
τίς οὕτως εἶπεν καὶ ἐγενήθη κύριος οὐκ ἐνετείλατο
38 Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
ἐκ στόματος ὑψίστου οὐκ ἐξελεύσεται τὰ κακὰ καὶ τὸ ἀγαθόν
39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
τί γογγύσει ἄνθρωπος ζῶν ἀνὴρ περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας αὐτοῦ
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
ἐξηρευνήθη ἡ ὁδὸς ἡμῶν καὶ ἠτάσθη καὶ ἐπιστρέψωμεν ἕως κυρίου
41 Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.
ἀναλάβωμεν καρδίας ἡμῶν ἐπὶ χειρῶν πρὸς ὑψηλὸν ἐν οὐρανῷ
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
ἡμαρτήσαμεν ἠσεβήσαμεν καὶ οὐχ ἱλάσθης
43 Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.
ἐπεσκέπασας ἐν θυμῷ καὶ ἀπεδίωξας ἡμᾶς ἀπέκτεινας οὐκ ἐφείσω
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.
ἐπεσκέπασας νεφέλην σεαυτῷ εἵνεκεν προσευχῆς
45 Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
καμμύσαι με καὶ ἀπωσθῆναι ἔθηκας ἡμᾶς ἐν μέσῳ τῶν λαῶν
46 All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
διήνοιξαν ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν πάντες οἱ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν
47 Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.
φόβος καὶ θυμὸς ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν ἔπαρσις καὶ συντριβή
48 Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
ἀφέσεις ὑδάτων κατάξει ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐπὶ τὸ σύντριμμα τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ λαοῦ μου
49 Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου κατεπόθη καὶ οὐ σιγήσομαι τοῦ μὴ εἶναι ἔκνηψιν
50 till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.
ἕως οὗ διακύψῃ καὶ ἴδῃ κύριος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ
51 Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐπιφυλλιεῖ ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχήν μου παρὰ πάσας θυγατέρας πόλεως
52 They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.
θηρεύοντες ἐθήρευσάν με ὡς στρουθίον οἱ ἐχθροί μου δωρεάν
53 They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me.
ἐθανάτωσαν ἐν λάκκῳ ζωήν μου καὶ ἐπέθηκαν λίθον ἐπ’ ἐμοί
54 Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
ὑπερεχύθη ὕδωρ ἐπὶ κεφαλήν μου εἶπα ἀπῶσμαι
55 I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.
ἐπεκαλεσάμην τὸ ὄνομά σου κύριε ἐκ λάκκου κατωτάτου
56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
φωνήν μου ἤκουσας μὴ κρύψῃς τὰ ὦτά σου εἰς τὴν δέησίν μου
57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.
εἰς τὴν βοήθειάν μου ἤγγισας ἐν ᾗ σε ἡμέρᾳ ἐπεκαλεσάμην εἶπάς μοι μὴ φοβοῦ
58 Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.
ἐδίκασας κύριε τὰς δίκας τῆς ψυχῆς μου ἐλυτρώσω τὴν ζωήν μου
59 Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
εἶδες κύριε τὰς ταραχάς μου ἔκρινας τὴν κρίσιν μου
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.
εἶδες πᾶσαν τὴν ἐκδίκησιν αὐτῶν εἰς πάντας διαλογισμοὺς αὐτῶν ἐν ἐμοί
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;
ἤκουσας τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν αὐτῶν πάντας τοὺς διαλογισμοὺς αὐτῶν κατ’ ἐμοῦ
62 the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day.
χείλη ἐπανιστανομένων μοι καὶ μελέτας αὐτῶν κατ’ ἐμοῦ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν
63 Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.
καθέδραν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀνάστασιν αὐτῶν ἐπίβλεψον ἐπὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν
64 Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;
ἀποδώσεις αὐτοῖς ἀνταπόδομα κύριε κατὰ τὰ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν
65 give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;
ἀποδώσεις αὐτοῖς ὑπερασπισμὸν καρδίας μόχθον σου αὐτοῖς
66 pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
καταδιώξεις ἐν ὀργῇ καὶ ἐξαναλώσεις αὐτοὺς ὑποκάτω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κύριε
