Lamentations 3
1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
I [the] great man to see: see affliction in/on/with tribe: staff fury his
2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
[obj] me to lead and to go: take darkness and not light
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
surely in/on/with me to return: return to overturn hand his all [the] day
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
to become old flesh my and skin my to break bone my
5 He hath besieged me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.
to build upon me and to surround poison and hardship
6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old.
in/on/with darkness to dwell me like/as to die forever: antiquity
7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
to wall up/off about/through/for me and not to come out: come to honor: heavy bronze my
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
also for to cry out and to cry to stopper prayer my
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
to wall up/off way: road my in/on/with cutting path my to twist
10 He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
bear to ambush he/she/it to/for me (lion *QK) in/on/with hiding
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
way: journey my to turn aside: turn aside and to tear me to set: make me devastated
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
to tread bow his and to stand me like/as guardhouse to/for arrow
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
to come (in): bring in/on/with kidney my son: type of quiver his
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
to be laughter to/for all people my music their all [the] day
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
to satisfy me in/on/with bitterness to quench me wormwood
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
and to break in/on/with gravel tooth my to cower me in/on/with ashes
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.
and to reject from peace soul my to forget welfare
18 And I said, My strength and my hope hath perished from the LORD:
and to say to perish perpetuity my and hope my from LORD
19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
to remember affliction my and wandering my wormwood and poison
20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
to remember to remember (and to sink *QK) upon me soul my
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
this to return: recall to(wards) heart my upon so to wait: hope
22 It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
kindness LORD for not to finish for not to end: finish compassion his
23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
new to/for morning many faithfulness your
24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
portion my LORD to say soul my upon so to wait: hope to/for him
25 The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
pleasant LORD (to/for to await him *QK) to/for soul to seek him
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
pleasant and waiting and silence to/for deliverance: salvation LORD
27 It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth.
pleasant to/for great man for to lift: bear yoke in/on/with youth his
28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
to dwell isolation and to silence: silent for to lift upon him
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if there may be hope.
to give: put in/on/with dust lip his perhaps there hope
30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
to give: give to/for to smite him jaw to satisfy in/on/with reproach
31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
for not to reject to/for forever: enduring Lord
32 But though he causeth grief, yet will he 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 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
for not to afflict from heart his and to suffer son: child man
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
to/for to crush underneath: under foot his all prisoner land: country/planet
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
to/for to stretch justice great man before face Most High
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
to/for to pervert man in/on/with strife his Lord not to see: select
37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
who? this to say and to be Lord not to command
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
from lip Most High not to come out: come [the] distress: harm and [the] pleasant
39 Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
what? to complain man alive great man upon (sin his *QK)
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
to search way: conduct our and to search and to return: return till LORD
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
to lift: trust heart our to(wards) palm to(wards) God in/on/with heaven
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
we to transgress and to rebel you(m. s.) not to forgive
43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
to cover in/on/with face: anger and to pursue us to kill not to spare
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
to cover in/on/with cloud to/for you from to pass prayer
45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
offscouring and refuse to set: make us in/on/with entrails: among [the] people
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
to open upon us lip their all enemy our
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
dread and pit to be to/for us [the] devastation and [the] breaking
48 My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
stream water to go down eye my upon breaking daughter people my
49 My eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
eye my to pour and not to cease from nothing cessation
50 Till the LORD shall look down, and behold from heaven.
till to look and to see: see LORD from heaven
51 My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
eye my to abuse to/for soul: myself my from all daughter city my
52 My enemies chased me hard, like a bird, without cause.
to hunt to hunt me like/as bird enemy my for nothing
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
to destroy in/on/with pit life my and to give thanks stone in/on/with me
54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
to flow water upon head my to say to cut
55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
to call: call to name your LORD from pit lower
56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thy ear at my breathing, at my cry.
voice my to hear: hear not to conceal ear your to/for relief my to/for cry my
57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
to present: come in/on/with day to call: call to you to say not to fear
58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
to contend Lord strife soul: myself my to redeem: redeem life my
59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
to see: see LORD oppression my to judge [emph?] justice my
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
to see: see all vengeance their all plot their to/for me
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
to hear: hear reproach their LORD all plot their upon me
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and they plot against me all the day.
lips to arise: attack me and meditation their upon me all [the] day
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
seat their and rising their to look [emph?] I mocking their
64 Render to them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
to return: pay to/for them recompense LORD like/as deed: work hand their
65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse to them.
to give: give to/for them covering heart curse your to/for them
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
to pursue in/on/with face: anger and to destroy them from underneath: under heaven LORD
