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| Lamentations 3:1 | Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation. | I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath. |
| Lamentations 3:2 | Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. | By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light. |
| Lamentations 3:3 | Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day. | Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day. |
| Lamentations 3:4 | Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones. | My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken. |
| Lamentations 3:5 | Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour. | He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow. |
| Lamentations 3:6 | Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. | He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead. |
| Lamentations 3:7 | Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. | 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. |
| Lamentations 3:8 | Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. | Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out. |
| Lamentations 3:9 | Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. | He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted. |
| Lamentations 3:10 | Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places. | He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places. |
| Lamentations 3:11 | Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate. | By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste. |
| Lamentations 3:12 | Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows. | With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows. |
| Lamentations 3:13 | He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver. | He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body. |
| Lamentations 3:14 | He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long. | I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day. |
| Lamentations 3:15 | He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. | He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure. |
| Lamentations 3:16 | Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes. | By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust. |
| Lamentations 3:17 | Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things. | My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good. |
| Lamentations 3:18 | Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord. | And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord. |
| Lamentations 3:19 | Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall. | Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison. |
| Lamentations 3:20 | Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me. | My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me. |
| Lamentations 3:21 | Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope. | This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope. |
| Lamentations 3:22 | Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed. | It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit. |
| Lamentations 3:23 | Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness. | They are new every morning; great is your good faith. |
| Lamentations 3:24 | Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him. | I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him. |
| Lamentations 3:25 | Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. | The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him. |
| Lamentations 3:26 | Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God. | It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord. |
| Lamentations 3:27 | Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth. | It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young. |
| Lamentations 3:28 | Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself. | Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him. |
| Lamentations 3:29 | Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. | Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope. |
| Lamentations 3:30 | Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches. | Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame. |
| Lamentations 3:31 | Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever. | For the Lord does not give a man up for ever. |
| Lamentations 3:32 | Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies. | For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love. |
| Lamentations 3:33 | Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men. | For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men. |
| Lamentations 3:34 | Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land, | In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, |
| Lamentations 3:35 | Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High, | In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High. |
| Lamentations 3:36 | Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved. | In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure. |
| Lamentations 3:37 | Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not? | Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord? |
| Lamentations 3:38 | Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest? | Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High? |
| Lamentations 3:39 | Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? | What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin? |
| Lamentations 3:40 | Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord. | Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord; |
| Lamentations 3:41 | Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens. | Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens. |
| Lamentations 3:42 | Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable. | We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness. |
| Lamentations 3:43 | Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared. | Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity; |
| Lamentations 3:44 | Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through. | Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through. |
| Lamentations 3:45 | Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people. | You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples. |
| Lamentations 3:46 | Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. | The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us. |
| Lamentations 3:47 | Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction. | Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction. |
| Lamentations 3:48 | Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. | Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| Lamentations 3:49 | Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest: | My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest, |
| Lamentations 3:50 | Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens. | Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven. |
| Lamentations 3:51 | Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city. | The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town. |
| Lamentations 3:52 | Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause. | They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird; |
| Lamentations 3:53 | Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. | They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones. |
| Lamentations 3:54 | Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off. | Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| Lamentations 3:55 | Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit. | I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison. |
| Lamentations 3:56 | Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries. | My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry. |
| Lamentations 3:57 | Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not. | You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear. |
| Lamentations 3:58 | Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life. | O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe. |
| Lamentations 3:59 | Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment. | O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause. |
| Lamentations 3:60 | Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me. | You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me. |
| Lamentations 3:61 | Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me. | Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me; |
| Lamentations 3:62 | Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day. | The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day. |
| Lamentations 3:63 | Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song. | Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song. |
| Lamentations 3:64 | Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. | You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands. |
| Lamentations 3:65 | Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour. | You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them. |
| Lamentations 3:66 | Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord. | You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord. |
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