איכה 3
| אני הגבר ראה עני בשבט עברתו | 1 |
I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
| אותי נהג וילך חשך ולא אור | 2 |
He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
| אך בי ישב יהפך ידו כל היום | 3 |
Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.
| בלה בשרי ועורי שבר עצמותי | 4 |
My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
| בנה עלי ויקף ראש ותלאה | 5 |
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
| במחשכים הושיבני כמתי עולם | 6 |
He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
| גדר בעדי ולא אצא הכביד נחשתי | 7 |
He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
| גם כי אזעק ואשוע שתם תפלתי | 8 |
Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
| גדר דרכי בגזית נתיבתי עוה | 9 |
He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
| דב ארב הוא לי אריה (ארי) במסתרים | 10 |
He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret 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 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
| הייתי שחק לכל עמי נגינתם כל היום | 14 |
I was 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 made me drunken 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 you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.
| ואמר אבד נצחי ותוחלתי מיהוה | 18 |
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
| זכר עניי ומרודי לענה וראש | 19 |
Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
| זכור תזכור ותשיח (ותשוח) עלי נפשי | 20 |
My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
| זאת אשיב אל לבי על כן אוחיל | 21 |
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
| חסדי יהוה כי לא תמנו כי לא כלו רחמיו | 22 |
It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
| חדשים לבקרים רבה אמונתך | 23 |
They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
| חלקי יהוה אמרה נפשי על כן אוחיל לו | 24 |
The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
| טוב יהוה לקוו לנפש תדרשנו | 25 |
The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
| טוב ויחיל ודומם לתשועת יהוה | 26 |
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
| טוב לגבר כי ישא על בנעוריו | 27 |
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
| ישב בדד וידם כי נטל עליו | 28 |
He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.
| יתן בעפר פיהו אולי יש תקוה | 29 |
He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
| יתן למכהו לחי ישבע בחרפה | 30 |
He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.
| כי לא יזנח לעולם אדני | 31 |
For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
| כי אם הוגה ורחם כרב חסדיו | 32 |
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
| כי לא ענה מלבו ויגה בני איש | 33 |
For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
| לדכא תחת רגליו כל אסירי ארץ | 34 |
To crush under his feet 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 approves not.
| מי זה אמר ותהי אדני לא צוה | 37 |
Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
| מפי עליון לא תצא הרעות והטוב | 38 |
Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not 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 the LORD.
| 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: you have not pardoned.
| סכותה באף ותרדפנו הרגת לא חמלת | 43 |
You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
| סכותה בענן לך מעבור תפלה | 44 |
You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
| סחי ומאוס תשימנו בקרב העמים | 45 |
You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people.
| פצו עלינו פיהם כל איבינו | 46 |
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
| פחד ופחת היה לנו השאת והשבר | 47 |
Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction.
| פלגי מים תרד עיני על שבר בת עמי | 48 |
My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
| עיני נגרה ולא תדמה מאין הפגות | 49 |
My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.
| עד ישקיף וירא יהוה משמים | 50 |
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
| עיני עוללה לנפשי מכל בנות עירי | 51 |
My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
| צוד צדוני כצפור איבי חנם | 52 |
My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
| צמתו בבור חיי וידו אבן בי | 53 |
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone on me.
| צפו מים על ראשי אמרתי נגזרתי | 54 |
Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
| קראתי שמך יהוה מבור תחתיות | 55 |
I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
| קולי שמעת אל תעלם אזנך לרוחתי לשועתי | 56 |
You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
| קרבת ביום אקראך אמרת אל תירא | 57 |
You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not.
| רבת אדני ריבי נפשי גאלת חיי | 58 |
O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
| ראיתה יהוה עותתי שפטה משפטי | 59 |
O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
| ראיתה כל נקמתם--כל מחשבתם לי | 60 |
You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
| שמעת חרפתם יהוה כל מחשבתם עלי | 61 |
You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
| שפתי קמי והגיונם עלי כל היום | 62 |
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
| שבתם וקימתם הביטה אני מנגינתם | 63 |
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
| תשיב להם גמול יהוה כמעשה ידיהם | 64 |
Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
| תתן להם מגנת לב תאלתך להם | 65 |
Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them.
| תרדף באף ותשמידם מתחת שמי יהוה | 66 |
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
