איכה 3
| אני הגבר ראה עני בשבט עברתו | 1 |
I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.
| אותי נהג וילך חשך ולא אור | 2 |
By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
| אך בי ישב יהפך ידו כל היום | 3 |
Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
| בלה בשרי ועורי שבר עצמותי | 4 |
My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
| בנה עלי ויקף ראש ותלאה | 5 |
He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
| במחשכים הושיבני כמתי עולם | 6 |
He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
| גדר בעדי ולא אצא הכביד נחשתי | 7 |
He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
| גם כי אזעק ואשוע שתם תפלתי | 8 |
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
| גדר דרכי בגזית נתיבתי עוה | 9 |
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
| דב ארב הוא לי אריה (ארי) במסתרים | 10 |
He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
| דרכי סורר ויפשחני שמני שמם | 11 |
By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
| דרך קשתו ויציבני כמטרא לחץ | 12 |
With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
| הביא בכליתי בני אשפתו | 13 |
He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
| הייתי שחק לכל עמי נגינתם כל היום | 14 |
I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
| השביעני במרורים הרוני לענה | 15 |
He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
| ויגרס בחצץ שני הכפישני באפר | 16 |
By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
| ותזנח משלום נפשי נשיתי טובה | 17 |
My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
| ואמר אבד נצחי ותוחלתי מיהוה | 18 |
And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
| זכר עניי ומרודי לענה וראש | 19 |
Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
| זכור תזכור ותשיח (ותשוח) עלי נפשי | 20 |
My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
| זאת אשיב אל לבי על כן אוחיל | 21 |
This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.
| חסדי יהוה כי לא תמנו כי לא כלו רחמיו | 22 |
It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
| חדשים לבקרים רבה אמונתך | 23 |
They are new every morning; great is your good faith.
| חלקי יהוה אמרה נפשי על כן אוחיל לו | 24 |
I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.
| טוב יהוה לקוו לנפש תדרשנו | 25 |
The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.
| טוב ויחיל ודומם לתשועת יהוה | 26 |
It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
| טוב לגבר כי ישא על בנעוריו | 27 |
It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
| ישב בדד וידם כי נטל עליו | 28 |
Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
| יתן בעפר פיהו אולי יש תקוה | 29 |
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
| יתן למכהו לחי ישבע בחרפה | 30 |
Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.
| כי לא יזנח לעולם אדני | 31 |
For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.
| כי אם הוגה ורחם כרב חסדיו | 32 |
For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
| כי לא ענה מלבו ויגה בני איש | 33 |
For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.
| לדכא תחת רגליו כל אסירי ארץ | 34 |
In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
| להטות משפט גבר נגד פני עליון | 35 |
In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.
| לעות אדם בריבו אדני לא ראה | 36 |
In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.
| מי זה אמר ותהי אדני לא צוה | 37 |
Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
| מפי עליון לא תצא הרעות והטוב | 38 |
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
| מה יתאונן אדם חי גבר על חטאו | 39 |
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
| נחפשה דרכינו ונחקרה ונשובה עד יהוה | 40 |
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
| נשא לבבנו אל כפים אל אל בשמים | 41 |
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
| נחנו פשענו ומרינו אתה לא סלחת | 42 |
We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
| סכותה באף ותרדפנו הרגת לא חמלת | 43 |
Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
| סכותה בענן לך מעבור תפלה | 44 |
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
| סחי ומאוס תשימנו בקרב העמים | 45 |
You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.
| פצו עלינו פיהם כל איבינו | 46 |
The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.
| פחד ופחת היה לנו השאת והשבר | 47 |
Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.
| פלגי מים תרד עיני על שבר בת עמי | 48 |
Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
| עיני נגרה ולא תדמה מאין הפגות | 49 |
My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
| עד ישקיף וירא יהוה משמים | 50 |
Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.
| עיני עוללה לנפשי מכל בנות עירי | 51 |
The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
| צוד צדוני כצפור איבי חנם | 52 |
They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
| צמתו בבור חיי וידו אבן בי | 53 |
They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
| צפו מים על ראשי אמרתי נגזרתי | 54 |
Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
| קראתי שמך יהוה מבור תחתיות | 55 |
I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
| קולי שמעת אל תעלם אזנך לרוחתי לשועתי | 56 |
My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
| קרבת ביום אקראך אמרת אל תירא | 57 |
You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.
| רבת אדני ריבי נפשי גאלת חיי | 58 |
O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.
| ראיתה יהוה עותתי שפטה משפטי | 59 |
O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.
| ראיתה כל נקמתם--כל מחשבתם לי | 60 |
You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.
| שמעת חרפתם יהוה כל מחשבתם עלי | 61 |
Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;
| שפתי קמי והגיונם עלי כל היום | 62 |
The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.
| שבתם וקימתם הביטה אני מנגינתם | 63 |
Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.
| תשיב להם גמול יהוה כמעשה ידיהם | 64 |
You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.
| תתן להם מגנת לב תאלתך להם | 65 |
You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.
| תרדף באף ותשמידם מתחת שמי יהוה | 66 |
You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.
