Lamentations 3
1 I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
I am the man that 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 against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
4 to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
My flesh and my skin he has made 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 to dwell in dark places, like 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 has walled me in, so I can't escape; he has made my chains 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 obstructed my path, and torn 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 arrows of his quiver to pierce my inward parts.
14 to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
I have become a laughingstock to all peoples, and their song all the day.
15 to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
He has filled me with bitterness, he has given me in full measure 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 pressed me down in the dust.
17 and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
You have removed my soul far away from peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
And I said, "My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD."
19 to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 to remember to remember (and to sink *Q(K)*) upon me soul my
My soul considers them, and is depressed.
21 this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
But this I call to my mind; therefore I have hope:
22 kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
The LORD's faithful love does not cease; his compassion does 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 that 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 while he is young.
28 to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
Let him sit alone and keep silence when he is disciplining him.
29 to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
Let him put his mouth to the dust, there may yet 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 with insults.
31 for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
For the LORD will not reject forever.
32 that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *Q(K)*)
For though he may cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the abundance of his loving kindness.
33 for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer (son: child *L(abh)*) man
For he is not predisposed to bring affliction or suffering to human beings.
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 deprive a man of justice 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 can speak a thing and have it come to pass, unless the LORD has commanded it?
38 from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
Doesn't both calamity 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 does 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 examine and search our ways, and return to the LORD.
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 to God in the heavens.
42 we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
We have transgressed and have rebelled, and 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 with anger and pursued us; you killed without sparing.
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 rubbish 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 wide against us.
47 dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.
48 stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
Streams of tears run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
My tears flow and do not cease, without respite,
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 eyes bring my soul grief, 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 a pit, 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 finished.'
55 to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
I called on your name, 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 voice; do not hide your ear at my sighs, to my cry.
57 to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
You drew 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 taken up the case for my soul; you have redeemed my life.
59 to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
You have seen, LORD, the wrong done to me; judge my case.
60 to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
You have seen all their vengeance and all their plots against me.
61 to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
You have heard their insults, LORD, and all their plots 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
Look their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their mocking song.
64 to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
You will render to them what they deserve, 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 as 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.
