Lamentations 3
1 I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 [obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3 surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
4 to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
5 to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 in/on/with darkness to dwell me like/as to die forever: antiquity
He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
7 to wall up/off about/through/for me and not to come out: come to honor: heavy bronze my
He has walled me about, so that I cannot go out. He has made my chain heavy.
8 also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9 to wall up/off way: road my in/on/with cutting path my to twist
He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
10 bear to ambush he/she/it to/for me (lion *Q(K)*) in/on/with hiding
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
11 way: journey my to turn aside: turn aside and to tear me to set: make me devastated
He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
12 to tread (bow his *L(abh)*) and to stand me like/as guardhouse to/for arrow
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 to come (in): bring in/on/with kidney my son: type of quiver his
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
14 to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
15 to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
16 and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
17 and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
18 and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD.”
19 to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
20 to remember to remember (and to sink *Q(K)*) upon me soul my
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
21 this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
22 kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies do not fail.
23 new to/for morning many faithfulness your
They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
24 portion my LORD to say soul my upon so to wait: hope to/for him
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
25 pleasant LORD (to/for to await him *Q(K)*) to/for soul to seek him
The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
26 pleasant and waiting and silence to/for deliverance: salvation LORD
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27 pleasant to/for great man for to lift: bear yoke in/on/with youth his
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
29 to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
30 to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
31 for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32 that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *Q(K)*)
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
33 for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer (son: child *L(abh)*) man
For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
34 to/for to crush underneath: under foot his all prisoner land: country/planet
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
35 to/for to stretch justice great man before face Most High
to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36 to/for to pervert man in/on/with strife his Lord not to see: select
to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.
37 who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?
38 from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
Does not evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
39 what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *Q(K)*)
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 to search way: conduct our and to search and to return: return till LORD
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
41 to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
42 we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
43 to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
44 to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
45 offscouring and refuse to set: make us in/on/with entrails: among [the] people
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
46 to open upon us lip their all enemy our
“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
47 dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
48 stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
My eye pours down and does not cease, without any intermission,
50 till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
until the LORD looks down, and sees from heaven.
51 eye my to abuse to/for soul: myself my from all daughter city my
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
52 to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
53 to destroy in/on/with pit life my and to give thanks stone in/on/with me
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
54 to flow water upon head my to say to cut
Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
55 to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
I called on your name, LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.
56 voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
You heard my voice: “Do not hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
57 to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Do not be afraid.”
58 to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
59 to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
60 to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
61 to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their plans against me,
62 lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
63 seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
64 to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
You will pay them back, LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
66 to pursue in/on/with face: anger and to destroy them from underneath: under heaven LORD
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
