Lamentations 3
1 I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Alef: Yo soy un hombre que ve aflicción en la vara de su enojo.
2 He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Alef: Me guió y me llevó en tinieblas, mas no en luz.
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.
Alef: Ciertamente contra mí volvió y revolvió su mano todo el día.
4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
Bet: Hizo envejecer mi carne y mi piel; quebrantó mis huesos.
5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Bet: Edificó contra mí, y me cercó de tósigo y de trabajo.
6 He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Bet: Me asentó en oscuridades, como los muertos para siempre.
7 He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
Guímel: Me cercó de seto, y no saldré; agravó mis grillos.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Guímel: Aun cuando clamé y di voces, cerró mi oración.
9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
Guímel: Cercó de seto mis caminos a piedra tajada, torció mis senderos.
10 He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Dálet: Oso que acecha fue para mí, como león en escondrijos.
11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.
Dálet: Torció mis caminos, y me despedazó; me tornó asolado.
12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Dálet: Su arco entesó, y me puso como blanco a la saeta.
13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
He: Hizo entrar en mis riñones las saetas de su aljaba.
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
He: Fui escarnio a todo mi pueblo, canción de ellos todos los días.
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
He: Me llenó de amarguras, me embriagó de ajenjos.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
Vau: Me quebró los dientes con cascajo, me cubrió de ceniza.
17 And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.
Vau: Y mi alma se alejó de la paz, me olvidé del bien.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Vau: Y dije: Pereció mi fortaleza, y mi esperanza del SEÑOR.
19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Zain: Acuérdate de mi aflicción y de mi lloro, del ajenjo y de la hiel.
20 My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Zain: Lo tendrá aún en memoria mi alma, porque en mí está humillada.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Zain: Esto reduciré a mi corazón, por tanto esperaré.
22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Chet: Es por las misericordias del SEÑOR que no somos consumidos, porque nunca decayeron sus misericordias.
23 They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
Chet: Nuevas son cada mañana; grande es tu fe.
24 The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Chet: Mi parte es el SEÑOR, dijo mi alma; por tanto a él esperaré.
25 The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
Tet: Bueno es el SEÑOR a los que en él esperan, al alma que le buscare.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Tet: Bueno es esperar callando en la salud del SEÑOR.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
Tet: Bueno es al varón, si llevare el yugo desde su juventud.
28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.
Yod: Se sentará solo, y callará, porque lo llevó sobre sí.
29 He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Yod: Pondrá su boca en el polvo, si por ventura habrá esperanza.
30 He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.
Yod: Dará la mejilla al que le hiriere; se llenará de afrenta.
31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
Cof: Porque el Señor no desechará para siempre;
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Cof: Antes si afligiere, también se compadecerá según la multitud de sus misericordias.
33 For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Cof: Porque no aflige ni acongoja de su corazón a los hijos de los hombres.
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
Lámed: Para desmenuzar debajo de sus pies todos los encarcelados de la tierra,
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lámed: Para hacer apartar el derecho del hombre ante la presencia del Altísimo,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not.
Lámed: Para trastornar al hombre en su causa, el Señor no lo sabe.
37 Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
Mem: ¿Quién será aquel que diga, que vino algo que el Señor no mandó?
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?
Mem: ¿De la boca del Altísimo no saldrá malo ni bueno?
39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Mem: ¿Por qué tiene dolor el hombre viviente, el hombre en su pecado?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Nun: Escudriñemos nuestros caminos, y busquemos, y volvámonos al SEÑOR.
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Nun: Levantemos nuestros corazones con las manos a Dios en los cielos.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.
Nun: Nosotros nos hemos rebelado, y fuimos desleales; por tanto tú no perdonaste.
43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
Sámec: Desplegaste la ira, y nos perseguiste; mataste, no perdonaste.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Sámec: Te cubriste de nube, para que no pasase la oración nuestra.
45 You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people.
Sámec: Raedura y abominación nos tornaste en medio de los pueblos.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Pe: Todos nuestros enemigos abrieron sobre nosotros su boca.
47 Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction.
Pe: Temor y lazo fue para nosotros, asolamiento y quebrantamiento.
48 My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Pe: Ríos de aguas echan mis ojos, por el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo.
49 My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.
Ayin Mis ojos destilan, y no cesan, porque no hay alivio,
50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
Ayin Hasta que el SEÑOR mire y vea desde los cielos.
51 My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Ayin Mis ojos contristaron mi alma, por todas las hijas de mi ciudad.
52 My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Tsade: Mis enemigos me dieron caza como a ave, sin razón.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone on me.
Tsade: Ataron mi vida en mazmorra, pusieron piedra sobre mí.
54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
Tsade Aguas de avenida vinieron sobre mi cabeza; yo dije: muerto soy.
55 I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Cof: Invoqué tu nombre, oh SEÑOR, desde la cárcel profunda.
56 You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Cof: Oíste mi voz; no escondas tu oído a mi clamor, para mi respiro.
57 You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not.
Cof: Te acercaste el día que te invoqué; dijiste: No temas.
58 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
Resh: Abogaste, Señor, la causa de mi alma; redimiste mi vida.
59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
Resh: Tú has visto, oh SEÑOR, mi sinrazón; pleitea mi causa.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Resh: Tú has visto toda su venganza; todos sus pensamientos contra mí.
61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Sin: Tú has oído la afrenta de ellos, oh SEÑOR, todas sus maquinaciones contra mí;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Sin: Los dichos de los que se levantaron contra mí, y su designio contra mí todo el día.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
Sin: Su sentarse, y su levantarse mira; yo soy su canción.
64 Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Tau: Dales el pago, oh SEÑOR, según la obra de sus manos.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them.
Tau: Dales ansia de corazón, tu maldición a ellos.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
Tau: Persíguelos en tu furor, y quebrántalos de debajo de los cielos, oh SEÑOR.
