Lamentations 3
1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
| אני הגבר ראה עני בשבט עברתו |
2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
| אותי נהג וילך חשך ולא אור |
3 Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.
| אך בי ישב יהפך ידו כל היום |
4 He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
| בלה בשרי ועורי שבר עצמותי |
5 He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail.
| בנה עלי ויקף ראש ותלאה |
6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead.
| במחשכים הושיבני כמתי עולם |
7 He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.
| גדר בעדי ולא אצא הכביד נחשתי |
8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
| גם כי אזעק ואשוע שתם תפלתי |
9 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.
| גדר דרכי בגזית נתיבתי עוה |
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.
| דב ארב הוא לי אריה (ארי) במסתרים |
11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
| דרכי סורר ויפשחני שמני שמם |
12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
| דרך קשתו ויציבני כמטרא לחץ |
13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
| הביא בכליתי בני אשפתו |
14 I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
| הייתי שחק לכל עמי נגינתם כל היום |
15 He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
| השביעני במרורים הרוני לענה |
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.
| ויגרס בחצץ שני הכפישני באפר |
17 And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.
| ותזנח משלום נפשי נשיתי טובה |
18 And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Jehovah.
| ואמר אבד נצחי ותוחלתי מיהוה |
19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
| זכר עניי ומרודי לענה וראש |
20 My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
| זכור תזכור ותשיח (ותשוח) עלי נפשי |
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:
| זאת אשיב אל לבי על כן אוחיל |
22 It is of Jehovah's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.
| חסדי יהוה כי לא תמנו כי לא כלו רחמיו |
23 They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.
| חדשים לבקרים רבה אמונתך |
24 Jehovah is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.
| חלקי יהוה אמרה נפשי על כן אוחיל לו |
25 Jehovah is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
| טוב יהוה לקוו לנפש תדרשנו |
26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
| טוב ויחיל ודומם לתשועת יהוה |
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
| טוב לגבר כי ישא על בנעוריו |
28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him.
| ישב בדד וידם כי נטל עליו |
29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
| יתן בעפר פיהו אולי יש תקוה |
30 Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.
| יתן למכהו לחי ישבע בחרפה |
31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
| כי לא יזנח לעולם אדני |
32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
| כי אם הוגה ורחם כרב חסדיו |
33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons of men.
| כי לא ענה מלבו ויגה בני איש |
34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
| לדכא תחת רגליו כל אסירי ארץ |
35 to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
| להטות משפט גבר נגד פני עליון |
36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.
| לעות אדם בריבו אדני לא ראה |
37 Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?
| מי זה אמר ותהי אדני לא צוה |
38 Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good?
| מפי עליון לא תצא הרעות והטוב |
39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
| מה יתאונן אדם חי גבר על חטאו |
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
| נחפשה דרכינו ונחקרה ונשובה עד יהוה |
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
| נשא לבבנו אל כפים אל אל בשמים |
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.
| נחנו פשענו ומרינו אתה לא סלחת |
43 Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.
| סכותה באף ותרדפנו הרגת לא חמלת |
44 Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
| סכותה בענן לך מעבור תפלה |
45 Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
| סחי ומאוס תשימנו בקרב העמים |
46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
| פצו עלינו פיהם כל איבינו |
47 Fear and the pit have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
| פחד ופחת היה לנו השאת והשבר |
48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
| פלגי מים תרד עיני על שבר בת עמי |
49 My eye pours down, and does not cease, without any intermission,
| עיני נגרה ולא תדמה מאין הפגות |
50 till Jehovah looks down, and beholds from heaven.
| עד ישקיף וירא יהוה משמים |
51 My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
| עיני עוללה לנפשי מכל בנות עירי |
52 They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
| צוד צדוני כצפור איבי חנם |
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
| צמתו בבור חיי וידו אבן בי |
54 Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.
| צפו מים על ראשי אמרתי נגזרתי |
55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
| קראתי שמך יהוה מבור תחתיות |
56 Thou heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
| קולי שמעת אל תעלם אזנך לרוחתי לשועתי |
57 Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not.
| קרבת ביום אקראך אמרת אל תירא |
58 O Lord, thou have pleaded the causes of my soul. Thou have redeemed my life.
| רבת אדני ריבי נפשי גאלת חיי |
59 O Jehovah, thou have seen my wrong. Judge thou my cause.
| ראיתה יהוה עותתי שפטה משפטי |
60 Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
| ראיתה כל נקמתם--כל מחשבתם לי |
61 Thou have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
| שמעת חרפתם יהוה כל מחשבתם עלי |
62 the lips of those who rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
| שפתי קמי והגיונם עלי כל היום |
63 Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up. I am their song.
| שבתם וקימתם הביטה אני מנגינתם |
64 Thou will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
| תשיב להם גמול יהוה כמעשה ידיהם |
65 Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.
| תתן להם מגנת לב תאלתך להם |
66 Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
| תרדף באף ותשמידם מתחת שמי יהוה |
