Lamentations 3
1 Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
2 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
[obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
3 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.
to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
5 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.
to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
6 Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
in/on/with darkness to dwell me like/as to die forever: antiquity
7 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.
to wall up/off about/through/for me and not to come out: come to honor: heavy bronze my
8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
to wall up/off way: road my in/on/with cutting path my to twist
10 Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
bear to ambush he/she/it to/for me (lion *Q(K)*) in/on/with hiding
11 Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
way: journey my to turn aside: turn aside and to tear me to set: make me devastated
12 Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
to tread (bow his *L(abh)*) and to stand me like/as guardhouse to/for arrow
13 He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.
to come (in): bring in/on/with kidney my son: type of quiver his
14 He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
15 He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.
to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
16 Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.
and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
17 Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.
and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
18 Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
19 Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.
to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
20 Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.
to remember to remember (and to sink *Q(K)*) upon me soul my
21 Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.
this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
22 Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
23 Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.
new to/for morning many faithfulness your
24 Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.
portion my LORD to say soul my upon so to wait: hope to/for him
25 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.
pleasant LORD (to/for to await him *Q(K)*) to/for soul to seek him
26 Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.
pleasant and waiting and silence to/for deliverance: salvation LORD
27 Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.
pleasant to/for great man for to lift: bear yoke in/on/with youth his
28 Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.
to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
29 Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
30 Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.
to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
31 Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
32 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.
that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *Q(K)*)
33 Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.
for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer (son: child *L(abh)*) man
34 Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
to/for to crush underneath: under foot his all prisoner land: country/planet
35 Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,
to/for to stretch justice great man before face Most High
36 Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.
to/for to pervert man in/on/with strife his Lord not to see: select
37 Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?
who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
38 Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?
from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
39 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?
what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *Q(K)*)
40 Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.
to search way: conduct our and to search and to return: return till LORD
41 Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.
to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
42 Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
43 Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
44 Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
45 Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
offscouring and refuse to set: make us in/on/with entrails: among [the] people
46 Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
to open upon us lip their all enemy our
47 Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
48 Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
49 Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:
eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
50 Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
51 Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
eye my to abuse to/for soul: myself my from all daughter city my
52 Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
53 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
to destroy in/on/with pit life my and to give thanks stone in/on/with me
54 Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
to flow water upon head my to say to cut
55 Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.
to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
56 Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.
voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
57 Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.
to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
58 Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.
to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
59 Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.
to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
60 Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.
to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
61 Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.
to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
62 Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.
lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
63 Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
64 Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
65 Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.
to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.
to pursue in/on/with face: anger and to destroy them from underneath: under heaven LORD
