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