Lamentations 3
1 [ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.
2 He has led me, and causes to go [in] darkness, and without light.
He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.
3 Surely against me He turns back, He turns His hand all the day.
Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4 He has worn out my flesh and my skin. He has broken my bones.
My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.
5 He has built up against me, And sets around poverty and weariness.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
6 In dark places He has caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.
He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.
7 He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, He has made heavy my chain.
He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.
8 Also when I call and cry out, He has shut out my prayer.
Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.
9 He has hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He has made crooked.
He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
10 A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, A lion in secret hiding places.
He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.
11 My ways He is turning aside, and He pulls me in pieces, He has made me a desolation.
He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12 He has bent His bow, And sets me up as a mark for an arrow.
He hath bent his bow and made me a marke for the arrow.
13 He has caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.
Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.
14 I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
15 He has filled me with bitter things, He has filled me [with] wormwood.
He hath filled me with bitternes, and made me drunken with wormewood.
16 And He breaks with gravel my teeth, He has covered me with ashes.
He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
17 And You cast off my soul from peace, I have forgotten prosperity.
Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,
18 And I say, My strength and my hope have perished from YHWH.
And I saide, My strength and mine hope is perished from the Lord,
19 Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
Remembring mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.
20 Remember well, and my soul bows down in me.
My soule hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I turn to my heart—therefore I hope.
I consider this in mine heart: therefore haue I hope.
22 The kindnesses of YHWH! For we have not been consumed, For His mercies have not ended.
It is the Lordes mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
23 New every morning, abundant [is] Your faithfulness.
They are renued euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.
24 My portion [is] YHWH, my soul has said, Therefore I hope for Him.
The Lord is my portion, sayth my soule: therefore wil I hope in him.
25 YHWH [is] good to those waiting for Him, To the soul [that] seeks Him.
The Lord is good vnto them, that trust in him, and to the soule that seeketh him.
26 [It is] good when one stays and stands still For the salvation of YHWH.
It is good both to trust, and to waite for the saluation of the Lord.
27 [It is] good for a man that he bears a yoke in his youth.
It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth.
28 He sits alone, and is silent, For He has laid [it] on him.
He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it vpon him.
29 He puts his mouth in the dust, if so be, there is hope.
He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope.
30 He gives to his striker the cheek, He is filled with reproach.
Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproches.
31 For the Lord does not cast off for all time.
For the Lord will not forsake for euer.
32 For though He afflicted, yet He has pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.
But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For He has not afflicted with His heart, Nor does He grieve the sons of men.
For he doeth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children of men,
34 To bruise under one’s feet any bound ones of earth,
In stamping vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,
35 To turn aside the judgment of a man, Before the face of the Most High,
In ouerthrowing the right of a man before the face of the most high,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord has not approved.
In subuerting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not.
37 Who [is] this—he has spoken, and it is, [And] the Lord has not commanded [it]?
Who is he then that sayth, and it commeth to passe, and the Lord commandeth it not?
38 From the mouth of the Most High does not go forth the evils and the good.
Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not euill and good?
39 Why does a living man sigh habitually, A man for his sin?
Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.
40 We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back to YHWH.
Let vs search and try our wayes, and turne againe to the Lord.
41 We lift up our heart on the hands to God in the heavens.
Let vs lift vp our hearts with our handes vnto God in the heauens.
42 We have transgressed and been rebellious, You have not forgiven.
We haue sinned, and haue rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.
43 You have covered Yourself with anger, And pursue us; You have slain—You have not pitied.
Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.
44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud, So that prayer does not pass through.
Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.
45 Outcast and refuse You make us In the midst of the peoples.
Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.
46 Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs.
47 Fear and a snare has been for us, Desolation and destruction.
Feare, and a snare is come vpon vs with desolation and destruction.
48 Streams of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 My eye is poured out, And does not cease without intermission,
Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not,
50 Until YHWH looks and sees from the heavens,
Till the Lord looke downe, and beholde from heauen.
51 My eye affects my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.
52 Hunting—my enemies have hunted me without cause like the bird.
Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in a pit, And they cast a stone against me.
They haue shut vp my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.
54 Waters have flowed over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
Waters flowed ouer mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.
55 I called Your Name, O YHWH, from the lower pit.
I called vpon thy Name, O Lord, out of the lowe dungeon.
56 You have heard my voice, do not hide Your ear at my breathing—at my cry.
Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.
57 You have drawn near in the day I call You, You have said, Do not fear.
Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saydest, Feare not.
58 You have pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, You have redeemed my life.
O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my life.
59 You have seen, O YHWH, my overthrow, Judge my cause.
O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.
Thou hast seene all their vengeance, and all their deuises against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O YHWH, All their thoughts against me,
Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:
62 The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.
The lippes also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.
63 Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I [am] their song.
Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.
64 You return to them the deed, O YHWH, According to the work of their hands.
Giue them a recompence, O Lord, according to the worke of their handes.
65 You give to them a covered heart, Your curse to them.
Giue them sorow of heart, euen thy curse to them.
66 You pursue in anger, and destroy them, From under the heavens of YHWH!
Persecute with wrath and destroy them from vnder the heauen, O Lord.
