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 במסתרים׃ | 10 |
He was unto 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 בכליותי 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 forgotten about 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 mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
| זכור תזכור ותשיח 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 unto 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 upon 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 strikes 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 חסדו׃ | 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 |
Wherefore 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 return to the LORD.
| נשא לבבנו אל כפים אל אל בשמים׃ | 41 |
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
| נחנו פשענו ומרינו אתה לא סלחת׃ | 42 |
We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.
| סכתה 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 waste and refuse in the midst 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 has come upon us, desolation and destruction.
| פלגי מים תרד עיני על שבר בת עמי׃ | 48 |
Mine eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
| עיני נגרה ולא תדמה מאין הפגות׃ | 49 |
Mine eye trickes 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 |
Mine eye affects mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
| צוד צדוני כצפור איבי חנם׃ | 52 |
Mine 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 upon me.
| צפו מים על ראשי אמרתי נגזרתי׃ | 54 |
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
| קראתי שמך יהוה מבור תחתיות׃ | 55 |
I called upon 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 upon 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 unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
| תתן להם מגנת לב תאלתך להם׃ | 65 |
Give them sorrow of heart, your curse unto them.
| תרדף באף ותשמידם מתחת שמי יהוה׃ | 66 |
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
