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