Lamentations 3
1 I am the man who hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
2 Me hath he driven out, and led into darkness, but not into light.
[obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
3 Surely against me doth he turn again and again his hand all the day.
surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
4 He hath caused my flesh and my skin to wear out, he hath broken my bones.
to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
5 He hath built around me, and encompassed me with poison and hardship.
to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
6 In dark places hath he set me to dwell, like the dead of olden times.
in/on/with darkness to dwell me like/as to die forever: antiquity
7 He hath placed a fence round about me, that I cannot get out; he hath made heavy my chain.
to wall up/off about/through/for me and not to come out: come to honor: heavy bronze my
8 Also when I cry aloud and make entreaty, he shutteth out my prayer.
also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
9 He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, my paths hath he made crooked.
to wall up/off way: road my in/on/with cutting path my to twist
10 A bear lying in wait is he to me, a lion in secret places.
bear to ambush he/she/it to/for me (lion *Q(K)*) in/on/with hiding
11 On my ways hath he placed thorns, and torn 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 He hath bent his bow, and placed me as a mark for the arrow.
to tread (bow his *L(abh)*) and to stand me like/as guardhouse to/for arrow
13 He hath caused to enter into my reins the children of his quiver.
to come (in): bring in/on/with kidney my son: type of quiver his
14 I am become a laughing-stock to all my people, their [jeering] song all the day.
to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
15 He hath sated me with bitter things, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel-stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
17 And my soul hath given up all thoughts of peace: I forget happiness.
and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
18 And I said, Lost is my strength, my expectation also from the Lord.
and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
19 Remembering my affliction and [the cause of] my complaint, wormwood and poison.
to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
20 Remembering [this] continually my soul is bowed down deeply within me.
to remember to remember (and to sink *Q(K)*) upon me soul my
21 [Yet] this answer will I give to my heart: therefore will I wait [in confidence].
this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
22 It is through the Lord's kindness that we are not consumed, because his mercies have no end;
kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
new to/for morning many faithfulness your
24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I wait for him.
portion my LORD to say soul my upon so to wait: hope to/for him
25 The Lord is good unto those 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 It is good that one should wait and this in silence for the salvation of the Lord.
pleasant and waiting and silence to/for deliverance: salvation LORD
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth;
pleasant to/for great man for to lift: bear yoke in/on/with youth his
28 That he sit in solitude and be silent; because He hath laid it upon him;
to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
29 That he put his mouth in the dust; perhaps there still is hope;
to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
30 That he offer his cheek to him that smiteth him; that he be satisfied with reproach.
to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever;
for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
32 But though he have caused grief, yet will he have mercy according to the abundance of his kindnesses.
that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *Q(K)*)
33 For he doth not afflict of his own will, and aggrieve the children of men.
for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer (son: child *L(abh)*) man
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
to/for to crush underneath: under foot his all prisoner land: country/planet
35 To pervert the justice [due to man] before the face of the Most High.
to/for to stretch justice great man before face Most High
36 To subvert a man in his contest—should the Lord not see this?
to/for to pervert man in/on/with strife his Lord not to see: select
37 Who is he that saith aught, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord hath not ordained it?
who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
38 Do not out of the mouth of the Most High come both the evil things and the good?
from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
39 Wherefore should a living man complain? let every man complain because of his sins.
what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *Q(K)*)
40 Let us search through and investigate our ways, and let us return to the Lord.
to search way: conduct our and to search and to return: return till LORD
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
42 We have indeed transgressed and rebelled: thou hast truly not pardoned.
we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
43 Thou hast covered [us] with thy anger, and made pursuit after us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that no prayer should pass through.
to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
45 As something loathsome and rejected hast thou rendered us in the midst of the people.
offscouring and refuse to set: make us in/on/with entrails: among [the] people
46 Wide have all our enemies opened against us their mouth.
to open upon us lip their all enemy our
47 Terror and a snare are come upon us, [with] desolation and breaches.
dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
48 With streams of water runneth my eye down, because of the breach of the daughter of my people.
stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
49 My eye trickleth down, and resteth not, without any intermission,
eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
50 Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
51 My eye affecteth 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 Those who are my enemies, without a cause, have chased me about like a bird.
to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
53 They have shut up in the dungeon my life, and have cast stones upon me.
to destroy in/on/with pit life my and to give thanks stone in/on/with me
54 Waters streamed over my head: I said, I am cut off.
to flow water upon head my to say to cut
55 I called on thy name, O Lord, out of the dungeon of the lowest depth.
to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
56 Thou didst hear my voice: hide not thy ear to give me enlargement at my cry.
voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
57 Thou wast ever near on the day that I called on thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
58 Thou didst plead, O Lord, the causes of my soul: thou didst [before this] redeem my life.
to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
59 Thou hast [now] seen, O Lord, the wrong I suffer: judge thou my cause.
to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their plans against me.
to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
61 Thou hast heard their reviling, O Lord, all their plans against me,
to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
62 The speeches of these that rise up against me, and their device against me all the day.
lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
63 Oh look upon their sitting down, and their rising up: I am their [jeering] song.
seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
64 Render unto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
65 Give them confusion of heart, thy curse he upon them.
to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
66 Pursue them in anger and destroy from under the heavens of the Lord.
to pursue in/on/with face: anger and to destroy them from underneath: under heaven LORD
