Θρῆνοι 3
1 ἐγὼ ἀνὴρ ὁ βλέπων πτωχείαν ἐν ῥάβδῳ θυμοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐπ’ ἐμέ
I am a man who has seen misery under the rod of Yahweh's fury.
2 παρέλαβέν με καὶ ἀπήγαγεν εἰς σκότος καὶ οὐ φῶς
He drove me away and caused me to walk in darkness rather than light.
3 πλὴν ἐν ἐμοὶ ἐπέστρεψεν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν
Surely he turned his hand against me again and again, the whole day long.
4 ἐπαλαίωσεν σάρκας μου καὶ δέρμα μου ὀστέα μου συνέτριψεν
He made my flesh and my skin waste away; he broke my bones.
5 ἀνῳκοδόμησεν κατ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ ἐκύκλωσεν κεφαλήν μου καὶ ἐμόχθησεν
He built up siege works against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 ἐν σκοτεινοῖς ἐκάθισέν με ὡς νεκροὺς αἰῶνος
He made me live in dark places, like those who died long ago.
7 ἀνῳκοδόμησεν κατ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐξελεύσομαι ἐβάρυνεν χαλκόν μου
He built a wall around me and I cannot escape. He made my chains heavy
8 καί γε κεκράξομαι καὶ βοήσω ἀπέφραξεν προσευχήν μου
and though I call out and cry for help, he shut out my prayer.
9 ἀνῳκοδόμησεν ὁδούς μου ἐνέφραξεν τρίβους μου ἐτάραξεν
He blocked my path with a wall of hewn stone; he made my paths crooked.
10 ἄρκος ἐνεδρεύουσα αὐτός μοι λέων ἐν κρυφαίοις
He is like a bear waiting to ambush me, a lion in hiding;
11 κατεδίωξεν ἀφεστηκότα καὶ κατέπαυσέν με ἔθετό με ἠφανισμένην
he turned aside my paths, he has made me desolate.
12 ἐνέτεινεν τόξον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐστήλωσέν με ὡς σκοπὸν εἰς βέλος
He bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
13 εἰσήγαγεν τοῖς νεφροῖς μου ἰοὺς φαρέτρας αὐτοῦ
He pierced my kidneys with the arrows of his quiver.
14 ἐγενήθην γέλως παντὶ λαῷ μου ψαλμὸς αὐτῶν ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν
I became a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunting all day long.
15 ἐχόρτασέν με πικρίας ἐμέθυσέν με χολῆς
He filled me with bitterness and forced me to drink wormwood.
16 καὶ ἐξέβαλεν ψήφῳ ὀδόντας μου ἐψώμισέν με σποδόν
He has made my teeth grind with gravel, and he made me cower in the ashes.
17 καὶ ἀπώσατο ἐξ εἰρήνης ψυχήν μου ἐπελαθόμην ἀγαθὰ
My soul is deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
18 καὶ εἶπα ἀπώλετο νεῖκός μου καὶ ἡ ἐλπίς μου ἀπὸ κυρίου
So I say, “My endurance has perished and so has my hope in Yahweh.”
19 ἐμνήσθην ἀπὸ πτωχείας μου καὶ ἐκ διωγμοῦ μου πικρίας καὶ χολῆς μου
Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and bitterness.
20 μνησθήσεται καὶ καταδολεσχήσει ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἡ ψυχή μου
I continually remember it and I am bowed down within me.
21 ταύτην τάξω εἰς τὴν καρδίαν μου διὰ τοῦτο ὑπομενῶ
But I call this to mind and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of Yahweh never ceases and his compassions never end,
they are new every morning; your faithfulness is great.
“Yahweh is my inheritance,” I said, therefore I will hope in him.
25 ἀγαθὸς κύριος τοῖς ὑπομένουσιν αὐτόν ψυχῇ ἣ ζητήσει αὐτὸν ἀγαθὸν
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the one who seeks him.
26 καὶ ὑπομενεῖ καὶ ἡσυχάσει εἰς τὸ σωτήριον κυρίου
It is good to wait silently for the salvation of Yahweh.
27 ἀγαθὸν ἀνδρὶ ὅταν ἄρῃ ζυγὸν ἐν νεότητι αὐτοῦ
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 καθήσεται κατὰ μόνας καὶ σιωπήσεται ὅτι ἦρεν ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ
Let him sit alone in silence, when it is laid upon him.
Let him put his mouth in the dust—there may yet be hope.
30 δώσει τῷ παίοντι αὐτὸν σιαγόνα χορτασθήσεται ὀνειδισμῶν
Let him offer his cheek to the one who strikes him, and let him be filled to the full with reproach.
31 ὅτι οὐκ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἀπώσεται κύριος
For the Lord will not reject us forever,
32 ὅτι ὁ ταπεινώσας οἰκτιρήσει κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ ἐλέους αὐτοῦ
but though he causes grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
33 ὅτι οὐκ ἀπεκρίθη ἀπὸ καρδίας αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐταπείνωσεν υἱοὺς ἀνδρός
For he does not afflict from his heart or torment the children of mankind.
34 τοῦ ταπεινῶσαι ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ πάντας δεσμίους γῆς
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,
35 τοῦ ἐκκλῖναι κρίσιν ἀνδρὸς κατέναντι προσώπου ὑψίστου
to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High,
36 καταδικάσαι ἄνθρωπον ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαι αὐτὸν κύριος οὐκ εἶπεν
to deny justice to a person—the Lord would not approve such things!
37 τίς οὕτως εἶπεν καὶ ἐγενήθη κύριος οὐκ ἐνετείλατο
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord decreed it?
38 ἐκ στόματος ὑψίστου οὐκ ἐξελεύσεται τὰ κακὰ καὶ τὸ ἀγαθόν
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and the good come?
39 τί γογγύσει ἄνθρωπος ζῶν ἀνὴρ περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας αὐτοῦ
How can any person alive complain? How can a person complain about the punishment for his sins?
40 ἐξηρευνήθη ἡ ὁδὸς ἡμῶν καὶ ἠτάσθη καὶ ἐπιστρέψωμεν ἕως κυρίου
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to Yahweh.
41 ἀναλάβωμεν καρδίας ἡμῶν ἐπὶ χειρῶν πρὸς ὑψηλὸν ἐν οὐρανῷ
Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in the heavens:
42 ἡμαρτήσαμεν ἠσεβήσαμεν καὶ οὐχ ἱλάσθης
“We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.
43 ἐπεσκέπασας ἐν θυμῷ καὶ ἀπεδίωξας ἡμᾶς ἀπέκτεινας οὐκ ἐφείσω
You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us, you have killed and you have not spared.
44 ἐπεσκέπασας νεφέλην σεαυτῷ εἵνεκεν προσευχῆς
You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
45 καμμύσαι με καὶ ἀπωσθῆναι ἔθηκας ἡμᾶς ἐν μέσῳ τῶν λαῶν
You have made us like filthy scum and refuse among the nations.
46 διήνοιξαν ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν πάντες οἱ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν
All our enemies curse us,
47 φόβος καὶ θυμὸς ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν ἔπαρσις καὶ συντριβή
panic and pitfall have come upon us, ruin and destruction.
48 ἀφέσεις ὑδάτων κατάξει ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐπὶ τὸ σύντριμμα τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ λαοῦ μου
My eyes flow with streams of tears because my people are destroyed.
49 ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου κατεπόθη καὶ οὐ σιγήσομαι τοῦ μὴ εἶναι ἔκνηψιν
My eyes will shed tears without ceasing, without relief,
50 ἕως οὗ διακύψῃ καὶ ἴδῃ κύριος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ
until Yahweh from heaven looks down and sees.
51 ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐπιφυλλιεῖ ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχήν μου παρὰ πάσας θυγατέρας πόλεως
My eyes cause me grief because of all the daughters of my city.
52 θηρεύοντες ἐθήρευσάν με ὡς στρουθίον οἱ ἐχθροί μου δωρεάν
I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies; they hunted me without a reason.
53 ἐθανάτωσαν ἐν λάκκῳ ζωήν μου καὶ ἐπέθηκαν λίθον ἐπ’ ἐμοί
They cast me into a pit and they threw a stone on me,
54 ὑπερεχύθη ὕδωρ ἐπὶ κεφαλήν μου εἶπα ἀπῶσμαι
and they caused waters to overflow, covering my head. I said, 'I have been cut off!'
55 ἐπεκαλεσάμην τὸ ὄνομά σου κύριε ἐκ λάκκου κατωτάτου
I called on your name, Yahweh, from the depths of the pit.
56 φωνήν μου ἤκουσας μὴ κρύψῃς τὰ ὦτά σου εἰς τὴν δέησίν μου
You heard my voice when I said, 'Do not close your ear to my cry for help.'
57 εἰς τὴν βοήθειάν μου ἤγγισας ἐν ᾗ σε ἡμέρᾳ ἐπεκαλεσάμην εἶπάς μοι μὴ φοβοῦ
You came near on the day I called on you; you said, 'Do not fear.'
58 ἐδίκασας κύριε τὰς δίκας τῆς ψυχῆς μου ἐλυτρώσω τὴν ζωήν μου
Lord, you defended my case, you saved my life!
59 εἶδες κύριε τὰς ταραχάς μου ἔκρινας τὴν κρίσιν μου
Yahweh, you have seen the wrong they have done to me; judge my case.
60 εἶδες πᾶσαν τὴν ἐκδίκησιν αὐτῶν εἰς πάντας διαλογισμοὺς αὐτῶν ἐν ἐμοί
You have seen their insults, all their plots against me—
61 ἤκουσας τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν αὐτῶν πάντας τοὺς διαλογισμοὺς αὐτῶν κατ’ ἐμοῦ
You have heard their scorn, Yahweh, and all their plans regarding me.
62 χείλη ἐπανιστανομένων μοι καὶ μελέτας αὐτῶν κατ’ ἐμοῦ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν
The lips and the accusations of my enemies come against me all the day.
63 καθέδραν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀνάστασιν αὐτῶν ἐπίβλεψον ἐπὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν
Look at how they sit and then rise up; they mock me with their songs.
64 ἀποδώσεις αὐτοῖς ἀνταπόδομα κύριε κατὰ τὰ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν
Pay back to them, Yahweh, according to what they have done.
65 ἀποδώσεις αὐτοῖς ὑπερασπισμὸν καρδίας μόχθον σου αὐτοῖς
You will let their hearts be shameless! May your condemnation be upon them!
66 καταδιώξεις ἐν ὀργῇ καὶ ἐξαναλώσεις αὐτοὺς ὑποκάτω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κύριε
You pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens, Yahweh!”
