Lamentations 3
1 I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
2 [obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
3 surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
4 to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.
5 to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.
6 in/on/with darkness to dwell me like/as to die forever: antiquity
Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
7 to wall up/off about/through/for me and not to come out: come to honor: heavy bronze my
Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.
8 also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
9 to wall up/off way: road my in/on/with cutting path my to twist
Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
10 bear to ambush he/she/it to/for me (lion *QK) in/on/with hiding
Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
11 way: journey my to turn aside: turn aside and to tear me to set: make me devastated
Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
12 to tread bow his and to stand me like/as guardhouse to/for arrow
Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
13 to come (in): bring in/on/with kidney my son: type of quiver his
He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.
14 to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
15 to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.
16 and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.
17 and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.
18 and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
19 to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.
20 to remember to remember (and to sink *QK) upon me soul my
Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.
21 this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.
22 kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
23 new to/for morning many faithfulness your
Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.
24 portion my LORD to say soul my upon so to wait: hope to/for him
Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.
25 pleasant LORD (to/for to await him *QK) to/for soul to seek him
Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26 pleasant and waiting and silence to/for deliverance: salvation LORD
Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.
27 pleasant to/for great man for to lift: bear yoke in/on/with youth his
Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.
28 to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.
29 to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
30 to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.
31 for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
32 that if: except if: except to suffer and to have compassion like/as abundance (kindness his *QK)
Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer son: child man
Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.
34 to/for to crush underneath: under foot his all prisoner land: country/planet
Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
35 to/for to stretch justice great man before face Most High
Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,
36 to/for to pervert man in/on/with strife his Lord not to see: select
Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.
37 who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?
38 from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?
39 what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *QK)
Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?
40 to search way: conduct our and to search and to return: return till LORD
Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.
41 to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.
42 we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
43 to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
44 to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
45 offscouring and refuse to set: make us in/on/with entrails: among [the] people
Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
46 to open upon us lip their all enemy our
Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
48 stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:
50 till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
51 eye my to abuse to/for soul: myself my from all daughter city my
Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
52 to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
53 to destroy in/on/with pit life my and to give thanks stone in/on/with me
Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
54 to flow water upon head my to say to cut
Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
55 to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.
56 voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.
57 to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.
58 to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.
59 to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.
60 to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.
61 to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.
62 lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.
63 seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
64 to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
65 to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.
66 to pursue in/on/with face: anger and to destroy them from underneath: under heaven LORD
Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.
