Lamentations 3
1 [ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
2 He has led me, and causes to go [in] darkness, and without light.
[obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
3 Surely against me He turns back, He turns His hand all the day.
surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
4 He has worn out my flesh and my skin. He has broken my bones.
to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
5 He has built up against me, And sets around poverty and weariness.
to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
6 In dark places He has caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.
in/on/with darkness to dwell me like/as to die forever: antiquity
7 He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, He has 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 call and cry out, He has shut out my prayer.
also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
9 He has hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He has made crooked.
to wall up/off way: road my in/on/with cutting path my to twist
10 A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, A lion in secret hiding places.
bear to ambush he/she/it to/for me (lion *Q(K)*) in/on/with hiding
11 My ways He is turning aside, and He pulls me in pieces, He has made me a desolation.
way: journey my to turn aside: turn aside and to tear me to set: make me devastated
12 He has bent His bow, And sets me up as a mark for an arrow.
to tread (bow his *L(abh)*) and to stand me like/as guardhouse to/for arrow
13 He has caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.
to come (in): bring in/on/with kidney my son: type of quiver his
14 I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
15 He has filled me with bitter things, He has filled me [with] wormwood.
to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
16 And He breaks with gravel my teeth, He has covered me with ashes.
and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
17 And You cast off my soul from peace, I have forgotten prosperity.
and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
18 And I say, My strength and my hope have perished from YHWH.
and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
19 Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
20 Remember well, and my soul bows down in me.
to remember to remember (and to sink *Q(K)*) upon me soul my
21 This I turn to my heart—therefore I hope.
this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
22 The kindnesses of YHWH! For we have not been consumed, For His mercies have not ended.
kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
23 New every morning, abundant [is] Your faithfulness.
new to/for morning many faithfulness your
24 My portion [is] YHWH, my soul has said, Therefore I hope for Him.
portion my LORD to say soul my upon so to wait: hope to/for him
25 YHWH [is] good to those waiting for Him, To the soul [that] seeks Him.
pleasant LORD (to/for to await him *Q(K)*) to/for soul to seek him
26 [It is] good when one stays and stands still For the salvation of YHWH.
pleasant and waiting and silence to/for deliverance: salvation LORD
27 [It is] good for a man that he bears a yoke in his youth.
pleasant to/for great man for to lift: bear yoke in/on/with youth his
28 He sits alone, and is silent, For He has laid [it] on him.
to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
29 He puts his mouth in the dust, if so be, there is hope.
to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
30 He gives to his striker the cheek, He is filled with reproach.
to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
31 For the Lord does not cast off for all time.
for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
32 For though He afflicted, yet He has pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.
that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *Q(K)*)
33 For He has not afflicted with His heart, Nor does He grieve the sons of men.
for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer (son: child *L(abh)*) man
34 To bruise under one’s feet any bound ones of earth,
to/for to crush underneath: under foot his all prisoner land: country/planet
35 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 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord has not approved.
to/for to pervert man in/on/with strife his Lord not to see: select
37 Who [is] this—he has spoken, and it is, [And] the Lord has not commanded [it]?
who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
38 From the mouth of the Most High does not go forth the evils and the good.
from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
39 Why does a living man sigh habitually, A man for his sin?
what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *Q(K)*)
40 We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back to YHWH.
to search way: conduct our and to search and to return: return till LORD
41 We lift up our heart on the hands to God in the heavens.
to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
42 We have transgressed and been rebellious, You have not forgiven.
we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
43 You have covered Yourself with anger, And pursue us; You have slain—You have not pitied.
to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud, So that prayer does not pass through.
to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
45 Outcast and refuse You make us In the midst of the peoples.
offscouring and refuse to set: make us in/on/with entrails: among [the] people
46 Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
to open upon us lip their all enemy our
47 Fear and a snare has been for us, Desolation and destruction.
dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
48 Streams of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
49 My eye is poured out, And does not cease without intermission,
eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
50 Until YHWH looks and sees from the heavens,
till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
51 My eye affects 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 Hunting—my enemies have hunted me without cause like the bird.
to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
53 They have cut off my life in a pit, And they cast a stone against me.
to destroy in/on/with pit life my and to give thanks stone in/on/with me
54 Waters have flowed over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
to flow water upon head my to say to cut
55 I called Your Name, O YHWH, from the lower pit.
to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
56 You have heard my voice, do not hide Your ear at my breathing—at my cry.
voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
57 You have drawn near in the day I call You, You have said, Do not fear.
to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
58 You have pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, You have redeemed my life.
to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
59 You have seen, O YHWH, my overthrow, Judge my cause.
to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
60 You have seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.
to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
61 You have heard their reproach, O YHWH, All their thoughts against me,
to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
62 The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.
lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
63 Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I [am] their song.
seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
64 You return to them the deed, O YHWH, According to the work of their hands.
to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
65 You give to them a covered heart, Your curse to them.
to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
66 You pursue in anger, and destroy them, From under the heavens of YHWH!
to pursue in/on/with face: anger and to destroy them from underneath: under heaven LORD
