Lamentations 3
1 I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 [obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
3 surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.
4 to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.
5 to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
6 in/on/with darkness to dwell me like/as to die forever: antiquity
He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that 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 hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
8 also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9 to wall up/off way: road my in/on/with cutting path my to twist
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10 bear to ambush he/she/it to/for me (lion *Q(K)*) in/on/with hiding
He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.
11 way: journey my to turn aside: turn aside and to tear me to set: make me devastated
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
12 to tread (bow his *L(abh)*) and to stand me like/as guardhouse to/for arrow
He hath 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 hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
14 to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
15 to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
16 and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
18 and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
19 to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
20 to remember to remember (and to sink *Q(K)*) upon me soul my
My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
— This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.
22 kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
23 new to/for morning many faithfulness your
they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24 portion my LORD to say soul my upon so to wait: hope to/for him
Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 pleasant LORD (to/for to await him *Q(K)*) to/for soul to seek him
Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.
26 pleasant and waiting and silence to/for deliverance: salvation LORD
It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.
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
He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;
29 to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;
30 to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.
31 for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
For the Lord will not cast off for ever;
32 that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *Q(K)*)
but if he have caused grief, 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 doth not willingly afflict or 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 aside 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 wrong a man in his cause, — will not the Lord see it?
37 who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?
38 from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
39 what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *Q(K)*)
Wherefore doth 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 Jehovah.
41 to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.
42 we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43 to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.
44 to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.
45 offscouring and refuse to set: make us in/on/with entrails: among [the] people
Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
46 to open upon us lip their all enemy our
All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
47 dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.
48 stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
49 eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
50 till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.
51 eye my to abuse to/for soul: myself my from all daughter city my
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
52 to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.
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 a pit, and cast a stone upon me.
54 to flow water upon head my to say to cut
Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
55 to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.
56 voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
57 to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.
58 to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.
59 to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
60 to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.
61 to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;
62 lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day.
63 seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
Behold thou 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
Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;
65 to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;
66 to pursue in/on/with face: anger and to destroy them from underneath: under heaven LORD
pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
