Lamentations 4
1 [ALEPH-BET] How the gold has become dim, Changed the best—the pure gold! Stones of the sanctuary are poured out At the head of all out-places.
how? to darken gold to change [the] gold [the] pleasant to pour: scatter stone holiness in/on/with head: top all outside
2 The precious sons of Zion, Who are comparable with fine gold, How they have been reckoned earthen bottles, Work of the hands of a potter.
son: descendant/people Zion [the] precious [the] to weigh in/on/with pure gold how? to devise: count to/for bag earthenware deed: work hand to form: potter
3 Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people has become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.
also (jackal *Q(K)*) to rescue breast to suckle whelp their daughter people my to/for cruel (for like/as ostrich *Q(K)*) in/on/with wilderness
4 The tongue of a suckling has cleaved to his palate with thirst, Infants asked for bread, they have no dealer [of it] out.
to cleave tongue to suckle to(wards) (palate his *L(abh)*) in/on/with thirst infant to ask food to spread nothing to/for them
5 Those eating of delicacies have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.
[the] to eat to/for delicacy be desolate: destroyed in/on/with outside [the] be faithful upon worm to embrace refuse
6 And greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people, Than the sin of Sodom, That was overturned as [in] a moment, And no hands were stayed on her.
and to magnify iniquity: punishment daughter people my from sin: punishment Sodom [the] to overturn like moment and not to twist: tremble in/on/with her hand
7 Purer were her Nazarites than snow, Whiter than milk, ruddier of body than rubies, Of sapphire their form.
be clean Nazirite her from snow be dazzling from milk to redden bone: body from jewel sapphire cutting/separation their
8 Their face has been darker than blackness, They have not been known in out-places, Their skin has cleaved to their bone, It has withered—it has been as wood.
to darken from blackness appearance their not to recognize in/on/with outside to shrivel skin their upon bone their dry to be like/as tree: wood
9 Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.
pleasant to be slain: killed sword from slain: killed famine which/that they(masc.) to flow: waste away to pierce from fruit field
10 The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
hand woman compassionate to boil youth their to be to/for to eat to/for them in/on/with breaking daughter people my
11 YHWH has completed His fury, He has poured out the fierceness of His anger, And He kindles a fire in Zion, And it devours her foundations.
to end: expend LORD [obj] rage his to pour: pour burning anger face: anger his and to kindle fire in/on/with Zion and to eat foundation her
12 The kings of earth did not believe, And any of the inhabitants of the world, That an adversary and enemy would come Into the gates of Jerusalem.
not be faithful king land: country/planet (all *Q(K)*) to dwell world for to come (in): come enemy and enemy in/on/with gate Jerusalem
13 Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,
from sin prophet her iniquity: crime priest her [the] to pour: kill in/on/with entrails: among her blood righteous
14 They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been defiled with blood, Without [any] being able to touch their clothing,
to shake blind in/on/with outside to defile in/on/with blood in/on/with not be able to touch in/on/with clothing their
15 “Turn aside—unclean,” they called to them, “Turn aside, turn aside, do not touch,” For they fled—indeed, they have wandered, They have said among nations: “They do not add to sojourn.”
to turn aside: remove unclean to call: call out to/for them to turn aside: remove to turn aside: remove not to touch for to flee also to shake to say in/on/with nation not to add: again to/for to sojourn
16 The face of YHWH has divided them, He does not add to behold them, They have not lifted up the face of priests, They have not favored [the] old and elderly.
face of LORD to divide them not to add: again to/for to look them face: kindness priest not to lift: kindness (and old: elder *Q(K)*) not be gracious
17 While we exist—consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watchtower we have watched for a nation [that] does not save.
(still we *Q(K)*) to end: expend eye our to(wards) help our vanity in/on/with watch our to watch to(wards) nation not to save
18 They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near has been our end, fulfilled our days, For our end has come.
to hunt step our from to go: walk in/on/with street/plaza our to present: come end our to fill day our for to come (in): come end our
19 Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned [after] us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.
swift to be to pursue us from eagle heaven upon [the] mountain: mount to burn/pursue us in/on/with wilderness to ambush to/for us
20 The breath of our nostrils—the anointed of YHWH, Has been captured in their pits, of whom we said: “We live among nations in his shadow.”
spirit: breath face: nose our anointed LORD to capture in/on/with pit their which to say in/on/with shadow his to live in/on/with nation
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, Dwelling in the land of Uz, Even to you a cup passes over, You are drunk, and make yourself naked.
to rejoice and to rejoice daughter Edom (to dwell *Q(K)*) in/on/with land: country/planet Uz also upon you to pass cup be drunk and to uncover
22 Completed [is] your iniquity, daughter of Zion, He does not add to remove you, He has inspected your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, He has removed [you] because of your sins!
to finish iniquity: crime your daughter Zion not to add: again to/for to reveal: remove you to reckon: punish iniquity: crime your daughter Edom to reveal: reveal upon sin your
