איכה 3
| אני הגבר ראה עני בשבט עברתו | 1 |
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
| אותי נהג וילך חשך ולא אור | 2 |
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
| אך בי ישב יהפך ידו כל היום | 3 |
Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.
| בלה בשרי ועורי שבר עצמותי | 4 |
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
| בנה עלי ויקף ראש ותלאה | 5 |
He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail.
| במחשכים הושיבני כמתי עולם | 6 |
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead.
| גדר בעדי ולא אצא הכביד נחשתי | 7 |
He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.
| גם כי אזעק ואשוע שתם תפלתי | 8 |
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
| גדר דרכי בגזית נתיבתי עוה | 9 |
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.
| דב ארב הוא לי אריה (ארי) במסתרים | 10 |
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.
| דרכי סורר ויפשחני שמני שמם | 11 |
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
| דרך קשתו ויציבני כמטרא לחץ | 12 |
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
| הביא בכליתי בני אשפתו | 13 |
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
| הייתי שחק לכל עמי נגינתם כל היום | 14 |
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
| השביעני במרורים הרוני לענה | 15 |
He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
| ויגרס בחצץ שני הכפישני באפר | 16 |
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.
| ותזנח משלום נפשי נשיתי טובה | 17 |
And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.
| ואמר אבד נצחי ותוחלתי מיהוה | 18 |
And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Jehovah.
| זכר עניי ומרודי לענה וראש | 19 |
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
| זכור תזכור ותשיח (ותשוח) עלי נפשי | 20 |
My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
| זאת אשיב אל לבי על כן אוחיל | 21 |
This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:
| חסדי יהוה כי לא תמנו כי לא כלו רחמיו | 22 |
It is of Jehovah's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.
| חדשים לבקרים רבה אמונתך | 23 |
They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.
| חלקי יהוה אמרה נפשי על כן אוחיל לו | 24 |
Jehovah is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.
| טוב יהוה לקוו לנפש תדרשנו | 25 |
Jehovah is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
| טוב ויחיל ודומם לתשועת יהוה | 26 |
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
| טוב לגבר כי ישא על בנעוריו | 27 |
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
| ישב בדד וידם כי נטל עליו | 28 |
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him.
| יתן בעפר פיהו אולי יש תקוה | 29 |
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
| יתן למכהו לחי ישבע בחרפה | 30 |
Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.
| כי לא יזנח לעולם אדני | 31 |
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
| כי אם הוגה ורחם כרב חסדיו | 32 |
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
| כי לא ענה מלבו ויגה בני איש | 33 |
For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons of men.
| לדכא תחת רגליו כל אסירי ארץ | 34 |
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
| להטות משפט גבר נגד פני עליון | 35 |
to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
| לעות אדם בריבו אדני לא ראה | 36 |
to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.
| מי זה אמר ותהי אדני לא צוה | 37 |
Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?
| מפי עליון לא תצא הרעות והטוב | 38 |
Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good?
| מה יתאונן אדם חי גבר על חטאו | 39 |
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
| נחפשה דרכינו ונחקרה ונשובה עד יהוה | 40 |
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
| נשא לבבנו אל כפים אל אל בשמים | 41 |
Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
| נחנו פשענו ומרינו אתה לא סלחת | 42 |
We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.
| סכותה באף ותרדפנו הרגת לא חמלת | 43 |
Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.
| סכותה בענן לך מעבור תפלה | 44 |
Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
| סחי ומאוס תשימנו בקרב העמים | 45 |
Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
| פצו עלינו פיהם כל איבינו | 46 |
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
| פחד ופחת היה לנו השאת והשבר | 47 |
Fear and the pit have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
| פלגי מים תרד עיני על שבר בת עמי | 48 |
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
| עיני נגרה ולא תדמה מאין הפגות | 49 |
My eye pours down, and does not cease, without any intermission,
| עד ישקיף וירא יהוה משמים | 50 |
till Jehovah looks down, and beholds from heaven.
| עיני עוללה לנפשי מכל בנות עירי | 51 |
My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
| צוד צדוני כצפור איבי חנם | 52 |
They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
| צמתו בבור חיי וידו אבן בי | 53 |
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
| צפו מים על ראשי אמרתי נגזרתי | 54 |
Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.
| קראתי שמך יהוה מבור תחתיות | 55 |
I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
| קולי שמעת אל תעלם אזנך לרוחתי לשועתי | 56 |
Thou heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
| קרבת ביום אקראך אמרת אל תירא | 57 |
Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not.
| רבת אדני ריבי נפשי גאלת חיי | 58 |
O Lord, thou have pleaded the causes of my soul. Thou have redeemed my life.
| ראיתה יהוה עותתי שפטה משפטי | 59 |
O Jehovah, thou have seen my wrong. Judge thou my cause.
| ראיתה כל נקמתם--כל מחשבתם לי | 60 |
Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
| שמעת חרפתם יהוה כל מחשבתם עלי | 61 |
Thou have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
| שפתי קמי והגיונם עלי כל היום | 62 |
the lips of those who rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
| שבתם וקימתם הביטה אני מנגינתם | 63 |
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up. I am their song.
| תשיב להם גמול יהוה כמעשה ידיהם | 64 |
Thou will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
| תתן להם מגנת לב תאלתך להם | 65 |
Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.
| תרדף באף ותשמידם מתחת שמי יהוה | 66 |
Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
