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 under the rod of God’s wrath.
2 [obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
3 surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
4 to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
5 to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
He has besieged 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 darkness like those dead for ages.
7 to wall up/off about/through/for me and not to come out: come to honor: heavy bronze my
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
8 also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
Even when I cry out and plead 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 barred my ways with cut stones; 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 a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
11 way: journey my to turn aside: turn aside and to tear me to set: make me devastated
He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
12 to tread (bow his *L(abh)*) and to stand me like/as guardhouse to/for arrow
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
13 to come (in): bring in/on/with kidney my son: type of quiver his
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
14 to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15 to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
16 and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
17 and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
19 to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
20 to remember to remember (and to sink *Q(K)*) upon me soul my
Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
21 this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
22 kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never 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 to wait quietly 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 to bear the yoke while he is still young.
28 to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.
29 to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope.
30 to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
31 for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
32 that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *Q(K)*)
Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
33 for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer (son: child *L(abh)*) man
For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
34 to/for to crush underneath: under foot his all prisoner land: country/planet
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
35 to/for to stretch justice great man before face Most High
to deny a man justice before 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 lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
37 who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
38 from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
39 what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *Q(K)*)
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
40 to search way: conduct our and to search and to return: return till LORD
Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
41 to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
42 we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
43 to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
44 to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
You have covered Yourself with a cloud 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 scum and refuse among the nations.
46 to open upon us lip their all enemy our
All our enemies open their mouths against us.
47 dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.
48 stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
50 till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 eye my to abuse to/for soul: myself my from all daughter city my
My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
52 to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
53 to destroy in/on/with pit life my and to give thanks stone in/on/with me
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
54 to flow water upon head my to say to cut
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
55 to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
56 voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
57 to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”
58 to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
59 to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
60 to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
61 to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
62 lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
63 seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
64 to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon 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 exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
