Lamentations 3
1 I, am the man, that hath seen affliction, by the rod of his indignation;
I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
2 Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;
[obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
3 Surely, against me, doth he again and again, turn his hand all the day.
surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
4 He hath worn out my flesh and my skin, hath broken my bones;
to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
5 He hath built up against me, and carried round me, fortifications and a trench;
to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
6 In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.
in/on/with darkness to dwell me like/as to die forever: antiquity
7 He hath walled up around me, that I cannot get out, hath weighted my fetter;
to wall up/off about/through/for me and not to come out: come to honor: heavy bronze my
8 Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;
also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
9 He hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back.
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 places;
bear to ambush he/she/it to/for me (lion *Q(K)*) in/on/with hiding
11 My ways, hath he turned aside, and hath torn me in pieces, hath made me desolate;
way: journey my to turn aside: turn aside and to tear me to set: make me devastated
12 He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, 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 my reins, the sons of his quiver;
to come (in): bring in/on/with kidney my son: type of quiver his
14 I have become 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 hath sated me with bitter things, hath drenched me with wormwood.
to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
16 And he hath crushed, with gravel-stones, my teeth, hath made me cower in ashes;
and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
17 And thou hast thrust away from welfare, my soul, I have forgotten prosperity;
and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
18 And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.
and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
19 Remember my humiliation and my fleeings, the wormwood and poison;
to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
20 Thou wilt, indeed remember, that, bowed down concerning myself, is my soul;
to remember to remember (and to sink *Q(K)*) upon me soul my
21 This, will I bring back to my heart, therefore, will I hope.
this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
22 The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, verily they are not exhausted, Verily! not at an end, are his compassions:
kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
23 New things for the mornings! Abundant is thy faithfulness:
new to/for morning many faithfulness your
24 My portion, is Yahweh, saith my soul, For this cause, will I wait for him.
portion my LORD to say soul my upon so to wait: hope to/for him
25 Good is Yahweh, to them who wait for him, to the soul that will seek him;
pleasant LORD (to/for to await him *Q(K)*) to/for soul to seek him
26 Good it is—both to wait and to be silent, for the deliverance of Yahweh;
pleasant and waiting and silence to/for deliverance: salvation LORD
27 Good it is for a man, that he should bear the yoke in his youth.
pleasant to/for great man for to lift: bear yoke in/on/with youth his
28 Let him sit alone, and keep silence, because he took it upon himself:
to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
29 Let him put, in the dust, his mouth, peradventure, there is hope!
to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
30 Let him give, to him that smiteth him, his cheek, let him be sated with reproach.
to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
31 Surely My Lord, will not cast off, unto times age-abiding;
for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
32 Surely, though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses;
that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *Q(K)*)
33 Surely he hath not afflicted from his heart, nor caused sorrow to the sons of men.
for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer (son: child *L(abh)*) man
34 To crush, under his feet, any of the prisoners of the earth;
to/for to crush underneath: under foot his all prisoner land: country/planet
35 To turn aside the right of a man, before the face of the Most High;
to/for to stretch justice great man before face Most High
36 To oppress a son of earth in his cause, My Lord, hath made no provision.
to/for to pervert man in/on/with strife his Lord not to see: select
37 Who was it that spake, and it was done, [when], My Lord, had not commanded?
who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
38 Out of the mouth of the Most High, Proceed there not misfortunes and blessing?
from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
39 Why should a living son of earth complain, [Let] a man [complain] because of his sins?
what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *Q(K)*)
40 Let us search out our ways, and examine them well, and let us return unto Yahweh;
to search way: conduct our and to search and to return: return till LORD
41 Let us lift up our heart, to the opened palms, to the Mighty One in the heavens;
to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
42 We, have trespassed and rebelled, Thou, hast not pardoned.
we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
43 Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us, hast slain—hast not spared;
to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
44 Thou hast screened thyself with the clouds, that prayer, should not pass through;
to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
45 Offscouring and refuse, dost thou make us, in the midst of the peoples.
offscouring and refuse to set: make us in/on/with entrails: among [the] people
46 With their mouth, opened wide over us, [stand] all our foes.
to open upon us lip their all enemy our
47 Terror and a pit, have befallen us, tumult and grievous injury;
dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
48 With streams of water, mine eye runneth down, over the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.
stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
49 Mine eye, poureth itself out and ceaseth not, without relief;
eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
50 Until Yahweh out of the heavens shall look forth, and see,
till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
51 Mine eye dealeth severely with 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 They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause:
to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
53 They have cut off, in the dungeon, my life, and have cast a stone upon me;
to destroy in/on/with pit life my and to give thanks stone in/on/with me
54 Waters, flowed over, my head, I said, I am cut off!
to flow water upon head my to say to cut
55 I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below;
to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
56 My voice, thou hast heard, —do not close thine ear to my respite, to mine outcry;
voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
57 Thou drewest near, in the day I kept calling on thee, thou saidst, Do not fear!
to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
58 Thou hast pleaded, O My Lord, the pleas of my soul, hast redeemed my life;
to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
59 Thou hast beheld, O Yahweh, my failure to get justice, Pronounce thou my sentence;
to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
60 Thou hast seen all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me.
to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Yahweh, all their plots against me;
to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
62 The lips of mine assailants, and their mutterings, are against me, all the day;
lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
63 On their downsitting and their uprising, do thou look, I, am their song.
seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
64 Thou wilt render to them a recompense, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands;
to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
65 Thou wilt suffer them a veiling of heart, thy curse to them;
to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
66 Thou wilt pursue in anger, and wilt destroy them, from under the heavens of Yahweh.
to pursue in/on/with face: anger and to destroy them from underneath: under heaven LORD
