Lamentations 3
1 Aleph. I am the man that see my 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 hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
Me he has driven and he has made walk darkness and not light.
3 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
Surely on me he returned he turned hand his all the day.
4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.
He has made to waste away flesh my and skin my he has broken bones my.
5 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.
He has built on me and he has surrounded [me] poison and hardship.
6 Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
In dark places he has caused to dwell me like dead people of antiquity.
7 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.
He has walled up behind me and not I will go out he has made heavy bronze fetter[s] my.
8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
Also if I will cry out and I may cry for help he has shut out prayer my.
9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
He has walled up ways my with hewn [stone] paths my he has made crooked.
10 Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
[is] a bear Lying in wait he to me (a lion *Q(K)*) in hiding places.
11 Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
Ways my he has caused to deviate and he has torn in pieces me he has made me desolate.
12 Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
He has bent (bow his *L(abh)*) and he has set up me like target for arrow.
13 He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.
He has brought in kidneys my [the] sons of quiver his.
14 He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
I have become a laughingstock to all people my taunt song their all the day.
15 He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.
He has surfeited me with bitter things he has made drink me wormwood.
16 Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath 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 is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.
And it has excluded from peace self my I have forgotten good.
18 Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
And I said it has perished endurance my and hope my from Yahweh.
19 Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.
Remember affliction my and homelessness my wormwood and poison.
20 Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.
Continually it remembers (so it may bow down *Q(K)*) on me self my.
21 Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.
This I bring back to heart my there-fore I will wait.
22 Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
[the] covenant loyalti of Yahweh for not we have met our end for not they come to an end compassion his.
23 Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.
[they are] new To the mornings [is] great faithfulness your.
24 Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I 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 them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh 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 wait with 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 hath borne 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 hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.
Let him sit alone and let him be silent for he has laid [it] on him.
29 Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
Let him put in the dust mouth his perhaps there [is] hope.
30 Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled 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 cast off for ever.
For not he will reject for ever [the] Lord.
32 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, 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 hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.
For not he has afflicted from heart his and he has grieved ([the] children of *L(abh)*) a man.
34 Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
To crush under feet his all [the] prisoners of [the] land.
35 Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,
To turn aside [the] justice of a man before [the] presence of [the] Most High.
36 Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.
To subvert anyone in case at law his [the] Lord not he has seen.
37 Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Who? this has he spoken and it was [the] Lord not he commanded [it].
38 Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?
From [the] mouth of [the] Most High not does it goes forth? the troubles and the good.
39 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?
Why? will he complain a person living a man on (sins his. *Q(K)*)
40 Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, 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 to the Lord in the heavens.
Let us lift up heart our to palms to God in the heavens.
42 Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
We we have transgressed and we have rebelled you not you have forgiven.
43 Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
You have covered yourself with anger and you have pursued us you have killed not you have spared.
44 Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
You have covered with cloud yourself from passing through prayer of.
45 Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
Scouring and refuse you have made us in [the] midst of the peoples.
46 Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
They have opened on us mouth their all enemies our.
47 Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
Terror and a pit it has happened to us devastation and brokenness.
48 Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for 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 Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:
Eye my it has poured itself and not it will cease from not stop.
50 Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
Until he will look down and he will see Yahweh from heaven.
51 Ain. My eye hath wasted 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 Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
Certainly they hunted me like bird enemies my without cause.
53 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
They destroyed in the pit life my and they threw down a stone on me.
54 Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
They overflowed waters over head my I said I have been cut off.
55 Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.
I called name your O Yahweh from a pit of lowest parts.
56 Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.
Voice my you heard may not you hide ear your to relief my to cry for help my.
57 Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.
You drew near on [the] day [when] I called on you you said may not you fear.
58 Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.
You have conducted O Lord [the] cases of self my you have redeemed life my.
59 Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.
You have seen O Yahweh oppression my judge! judgment my.
60 Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.
You have seen all vengeance their all plans their to me.
61 Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.
You have heard reproach their O Yahweh all plans their on me.
62 Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.
[the] lips of [those who] rise against Me and muttering their on me all the day.
63 Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
Sitting their and rising their look at! I [am] mocking song their.
64 Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, 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. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.
You will give to them shamelessness of heart curse your [may it belong] to them.
66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.
You will pursue [them] in anger and you will destroy them from under [the] heavens of Yahweh.
