Lamentations 3
1 ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.
I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
2 ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.
[obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
3 ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.
surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
4 BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
5 BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.
to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
6 BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
in/on/with darkness to dwell me like/as to die forever: antiquity
7 GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.
to wall up/off about/through/for me and not to come out: come to honor: heavy bronze my
8 GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
9 GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.
to wall up/off way: road my in/on/with cutting path my to twist
10 DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.
bear to ambush he/she/it to/for me (lion *QK) in/on/with hiding
11 DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation.
way: journey my to turn aside: turn aside and to tear me to set: make me devastated
12 DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.
to tread bow his and to stand me like/as guardhouse to/for arrow
13 HE. He has shot into my kidneys the daughters of his quiver.
to come (in): bring in/on/with kidney my son: type of quiver his
14 HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day.
to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
15 HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood.
to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
16 VAU. And he has broken each one of my teeth; he has fed me with ashes.
and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
17 VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good.
and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
18 VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.”
and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
19 ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
20 ZAIN. I will call to mind the past, and my soul shall languish within me.
to remember to remember (and to sink *QK) upon me soul my
21 ZAIN. These recollections are in my heart; therefore, I shall hope.
this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
22 HETH. By the mercies of the Lord, we are not consumed. For his compassion has not passed away.
kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
23 HETH. I know it at first light; great is your faithfulness.
new to/for morning many faithfulness your
24 HETH. “The Lord is my portion,” said my soul. Because of this, I will wait for him.
portion my LORD to say soul my upon so to wait: hope to/for him
25 TETH. The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him.
pleasant LORD (to/for to await him *QK) to/for soul to seek him
26 TETH. It is good to stand ready in silence for the salvation of God.
pleasant and waiting and silence to/for deliverance: salvation LORD
27 TETH. It is good for a man, when he has carried the yoke from his youth.
pleasant to/for great man for to lift: bear yoke in/on/with youth his
28 JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself.
to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
29 JOD. He shall place his mouth in the dirt, if perhaps there may be hope.
to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
30 JOD. He shall give his cheek to those who strike him; he shall be saturated with reproaches.
to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
31 CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever.
for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
32 CAPH. For, if he has cast down, he will also have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.
that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *QK)
33 CAPH. For he has not humiliated from his heart, nor has he thrown aside the sons of men,
for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer son: child man
34 LAMED. as if to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
to/for to crush underneath: under foot his all prisoner land: country/planet
35 LAMED. as if to turn aside the judgment of a man in the sight of the presence of the Most High,
to/for to stretch justice great man before face Most High
36 LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this.
to/for to pervert man in/on/with strife his Lord not to see: select
37 MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?
who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
38 MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
39 MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?
what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *QK)
40 NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.
to search way: conduct our and to search and to return: return till LORD
41 NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.
to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
42 NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.
we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
43 SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.
to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
44 SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.
to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
45 SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.
offscouring and refuse to set: make us in/on/with entrails: among [the] people
46 PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.
to open upon us lip their all enemy our
47 PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.
dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
48 PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.
stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
49 AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest
eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
50 AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.
till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
51 AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city.
eye my to abuse to/for soul: myself my from all daughter city my
52 SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.
to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
53 SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.
to destroy in/on/with pit life my and to give thanks stone in/on/with me
54 SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, “I am lost.”
to flow water upon head my to say to cut
55 COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit.
to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
56 COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries.
voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
57 COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, “Fear not.”
to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
58 RES. You have judged, O Lord, the case of my soul. You are the Redeemer of my life.
to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
59 RES. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me. Judge my case.
to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
60 RES. You have seen all their fury, every one of their thoughts is against me.
to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
61 SIN. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their thoughts are against me.
to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
62 SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long.
lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
63 SIN. Watch their sitting down and their rising up: I am their psalm.
seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
64 THAU. You shall pay a recompense to them, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
65 THAU. You shall give them a heavy shield of the heart: your hardship.
to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
66 THAU. You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord.
to pursue in/on/with face: anger and to destroy them from underneath: under heaven LORD
