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 caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
| אך בי ישב יהפך ידו כל היום׃ | 3 |
Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
| בלה בשרי ועורי שבר עצמותי׃ | 4 |
My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.
| בנה עלי ויקף ראש ותלאה׃ | 5 |
He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
| במחשכים הושיבני כמתי עולם׃ | 6 |
He has made me to dwell in dark places, like those that have been long dead.
| גדר בעדי ולא אצא הכביד נחשתי׃ | 7 |
He has walled me in, so I can't escape; he has made my chains heavy.
| גם כי אזעק ואשוע שתם תפלתי׃ | 8 |
Yes, 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 cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
| דב ארב הוא לי אריה במסתרים׃ | 10 |
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
| דרכי סורר ויפשחני שמני שמם׃ | 11 |
He has obstructed my path, and torn 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 pierce my inward parts.
| הייתי שחק לכל עמי נגינתם כל היום׃ | 14 |
I have become a laughingstock to all peoples, and their song all the day.
| השביעני במרורים הרוני לענה׃ | 15 |
He has filled me with bitterness, he has given me in full measure wormwood.
| ויגרס בחצץ שני הכפישני באפר׃ | 16 |
He has also broken my teeth with gravel; he has pressed me down in the dust.
| ותזנח משלום נפשי נשיתי טובה׃ | 17 |
You have removed my soul far away from peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
| ואמר אבד נצחי ותוחלתי מיהוה׃ | 18 |
And I said, "My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD."
| זכר עניי ומרודי לענה וראש׃ | 19 |
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
| זכור תזכור ותשיח עלי נפשי׃ | 20 |
My soul considers them, and is depressed.
| זאת אשיב אל לבי על כן אוחיל׃ | 21 |
But this I call to my mind; therefore I have hope:
| חסדי יהוה כי לא תמנו כי לא כלו רחמיו׃ | 22 |
The LORD's faithful love does not cease; his compassion does not fail.
| 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 I will hope in him."
| טוב יהוה לקוו לנפש תדרשנו׃ | 25 |
The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
| טוב ויחיל ודומם לתשועת יהוה׃ | 26 |
It is good that a man should 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 while he is young.
| ישב בדד וידם כי נטל עליו׃ | 28 |
Let him sit alone and keep silence when he is disciplining him.
| יתן בעפר פיהו אולי יש תקוה׃ | 29 |
Let him put his mouth to the dust, there may yet be hope.
| יתן למכהו לחי ישבע בחרפה׃ | 30 |
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled with insults.
| כי לא יזנח לעולם אדני׃ | 31 |
For the LORD will not reject forever.
| כי אם הוגה ורחם כרב חסדו׃ | 32 |
For though he may cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the abundance of his loving kindness.
| כי לא ענה מלבו ויגה בני איש׃ | 33 |
For he is not predisposed to bring affliction or suffering to human beings.
| 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 deprive a man of justice 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 can speak a thing and have it come to pass, unless the LORD has commanded it?
| מפי עליון לא תצא הרעות והטוב׃ | 38 |
Doesn't both calamity and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
| 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 examine and search our ways, and return 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, and you have not forgiven.
| סכתה באף ותרדפנו הרגת לא חמלת׃ | 43 |
You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you killed without sparing.
| סכותה בענן לך מעבור תפלה׃ | 44 |
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
| סחי ומאוס תשימנו בקרב העמים׃ | 45 |
You have made us rubbish 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 on us, devastation and destruction.
| פלגי מים תרד עיני על שבר בת עמי׃ | 48 |
Streams of tears run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
| עיני נגרה ולא תדמה מאין הפגות׃ | 49 |
My tears flow and do not cease, without respite,
| עד ישקיף וירא יהוה משמים׃ | 50 |
until the LORD looks down and sees from heaven.
| עיני עוללה לנפשי מכל בנות עירי׃ | 51 |
My eyes bring my soul grief, because of all the daughters of my city.
| צוד צדוני כצפור איבי חנם׃ | 52 |
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
| צמתו בבור חיי וידו אבן בי׃ | 53 |
They have cut off my life in a pit, and have cast a stone on me.
| צפו מים על ראשי אמרתי נגזרתי׃ | 54 |
Waters flowed over my head; I said, 'I am finished.'
| קראתי שמך יהוה מבור תחתיות׃ | 55 |
I called on your name, LORD, out of the depths of the pit.
| קולי שמעת אל תעלם אזנך לרוחתי לשועתי׃ | 56 |
You heard my voice; do not hide your ear at my sighs, to my cry.
| קרבת ביום אקראך אמרת אל תירא׃ | 57 |
You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, "Do not be afraid."
| רבת אדני ריבי נפשי גאלת חיי׃ | 58 |
LORD, you have taken up the case for my soul; you have redeemed my life.
| ראיתה יהוה עותתי שפטה משפטי׃ | 59 |
You have seen, LORD, the wrong done to me; judge my case.
| ראיתה כל נקמתם כל מחשבתם לי׃ | 60 |
You have seen all their vengeance and all their plots against me.
| שמעת חרפתם יהוה כל מחשבתם עלי׃ | 61 |
You have heard their insults, LORD, and all their plots against me.
| שפתי קמי והגיונם עלי כל היום׃ | 62 |
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
| שבתם וקימתם הביטה אני מנגינתם׃ | 63 |
Look their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their mocking song.
| תשיב להם גמול יהוה כמעשה ידיהם׃ | 64 |
You will render to them what they deserve, LORD, according to the work of their hands.
| תתן להם מגנת לב תאלתך להם׃ | 65 |
You will give them hardness of heart as your curse to them.
| תרדף באף ותשמידם מתחת שמי יהוה׃ | 66 |
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
