Lamentations 3
1 I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
I [am] the man [who] he has seen affliction by [the] rod of fury his.
2 He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Me he has driven and he has made walk darkness and not light.
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.
Surely on me he returned he turned hand his all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
He has made to waste away flesh my and skin my he has broken bones my.
5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
He has built on me and he has surrounded [me] poison and hardship.
6 He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
In dark places he has caused to dwell me like dead people of antiquity.
7 He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
He has walled up behind me and not I will go out he has made heavy bronze fetter[s] my.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Also if I will cry out and I may cry for help he has shut out prayer my.
9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
He has walled up ways my with hewn [stone] paths my he has made crooked.
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
[is] a bear Lying in wait he to me (a lion *Q(K)*) in hiding places.
11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.
Ways my he has caused to deviate and he has torn in pieces me he has made me desolate.
12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He has bent (bow his *L(abh)*) and he has set up me like target for arrow.
13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
He has brought in kidneys my [the] sons of quiver his.
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
I have become a laughingstock to all people my taunt song their all the day.
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
He has surfeited me with bitter things he has made drink me wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
And he has broken with gravel teeth my he has made cower me in ash[es].
17 And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgotten about prosperity.
And it has excluded from peace self my I have forgotten good.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
And I said it has perished endurance my and hope my from Yahweh.
19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Remember affliction my and homelessness my wormwood and poison.
20 My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Continually it remembers (so it may bow down *Q(K)*) on me self my.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
This I bring back to heart my there-fore I will wait.
22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
[the] covenant loyalti of Yahweh for not we have met our end for not they come to an end compassion his.
23 They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
[they are] new To the mornings [is] great faithfulness your.
24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
[is] portion My Yahweh it has said self my there-fore I will wait for him.
25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for 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 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
[is] good And waiting and silently for [the] salvation of Yahweh.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
[is] good For man that he will bear a yoke in youth his.
28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him.
Let him sit alone and let him be silent for he has laid [it] on him.
29 He puts 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 He gives his cheek to him that strikes him: he is filled full with reproach.
Let him give to [the] [one who] strikes him a cheek let him be sated with reproach.
31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
For not he will reject for ever [the] Lord.
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he 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 For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
For not he has afflicted from heart his and he has grieved ([the] children of *L(abh)*) a man.
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
To crush under feet his all [the] prisoners of [the] land.
35 To turn aside the right 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 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not.
To subvert anyone in case at law his [the] Lord not he has seen.
37 Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
Who? this has he spoken and it was [the] Lord not he commanded [it].
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?
From [the] mouth of [the] Most High not does it goes forth? the troubles and the good.
39 Wherefore does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Why? will he complain a person living a man on (sins his. *Q(K)*)
40 Let us search and try our ways, and return to the LORD.
Let us examine ways our and let us examine and let us return to Yahweh.
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Let us lift up heart our to palms to God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.
We we have transgressed and we have rebelled you not you have forgiven.
43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
You have covered yourself with anger and you have pursued us you have killed not you have spared.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
You have covered with cloud yourself from passing through prayer of.
45 You have made us as the waste and refuse in the midst of the people.
Scouring and refuse you have made us in [the] midst of the peoples.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
They have opened on us mouth their all enemies our.
47 Fear and a snare has come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Terror and a pit it has happened to us devastation and brokenness.
48 Mine eye runs down with rivers 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 Mine eye trickes down, and ceases not, without any intermission.
Eye my it has poured itself and not it will cease from not stop.
50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
Until he will look down and he will see Yahweh from heaven.
51 Mine eye affects mine heart 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 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Certainly they hunted me like bird enemies my without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
They destroyed in the pit life my and they threw down a stone on me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
They overflowed waters over head my I said I have been cut off.
55 I called upon your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
I called name your O Yahweh from a pit of lowest parts.
56 You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Voice my you heard may not you hide ear your to relief my to cry for help my.
57 You drew near in the day that 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 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
You have conducted O Lord [the] cases of self my you have redeemed life my.
59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
You have seen O Yahweh oppression my judge! judgment my.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
You have seen all vengeance their all plans their to me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
You have heard reproach their O Yahweh all plans their on me.
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
[the] lips of [those who] rise against Me and muttering their on me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
Sitting their and rising their look at! I [am] mocking song their.
64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
You will repay to them recompense O Yahweh according to [the] work of hands their.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse unto them.
You will give to them shamelessness of heart curse your [may it belong] to them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
You will pursue [them] in anger and you will destroy them from under [the] heavens of Yahweh.
