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Lamentations 3

Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB

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1 Aleph I am a man that sees affliction in the rod of his wrath.

1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD’s wrath.

2 Aleph He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;

3 Aleph Surely he is turned against me; he turns his hand against me all the day.

3 indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

4 Beth My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.

4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.

5 Beth He has built against me and compassed me with gall and travail.

5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6 Beth He has set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.

6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

7 Gimel He has hedged me about that I cannot get out; he has made my chain heavy.

7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.

8 Gimel Even when I cried and shouted, he shut out my prayer.

8 Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.

9 Gimel He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.

9 He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.

10 Daleth He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places.

10 Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,

11 Daleth He has made my ways crooked and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

11 he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.

12 Daleth He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.

12 He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.

13 He He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

13 He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.

14 He I was a derision to all my people and their song every day.

14 I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

15 He He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.

15 He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.

16 Vau He has broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.

16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.

17 Vau My soul removed itself far from peace; I forgot about good.

17 I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

18 Vau And I said, My strength and my hope of the LORD is perished.

18 So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.”

19 Zain Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

19 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.

20 Zain My soul shall have them still in remembrance because it is humbled in me.

20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.

21 Zain This shall go down into my heart; therefore I shall wait.

21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

22 Chet It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.

22 Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

23 Chet They are new every morning; great is thy faith.

23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

24 Chet The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will wait for him.

24 I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”

25 Teth The LORD is good unto those that wait in him, to the soul that seeks him.

25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

26 Teth It is good to wait quietly in the salvation of the LORD.

26 it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

27 Teth It is good for the man if he bears the yoke from his youth.

27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

28 Jod He shall sit alone and keep silence because he has borne it upon him.

28 Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him.

29 Jod He shall put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

29 Let him bury his face in the dust— there may yet be hope.

30 Jod He shall turn his cheek unto him that smites him; he shall be filled with reproach.

30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.

31 Caph For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

31 For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.

32 Caph But though he causes grief, yet he will also have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.

33 Caph For he does not afflict nor grieve the sons of men from his heart.

33 For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.

34 Lamed To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

34 To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,

35 Lamed To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

35 to deny people their rights before the Most High,

36 Lamed To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

36 to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?

37 Mem Who shall he be that saith that something comes which the Lord has not sent?

37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?

38 Mem Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?

38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?

39 Mem Why does the living man have pain, the man in his sins?

39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?

40 Nun Let us search out our ways, and seek, and turn again to the LORD.

40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.

41 Nun Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:

42 Nun We have rebelled and been disloyal; therefore thou hast not forgiven.

42 “We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.

43 Samech Thou hast unfurled anger and persecuted us; thou hast slain, thou hast not forgiven.

43 “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.

44 Samech Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer should not pass through.

44 You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

45 Samech Thou hast made us as the offscouring and abomination in the midst of the peoples.

45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

46 Pe All our enemies have opened their mouths upon us.

46 “All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.

47 Pe Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”

48 Pe My eyes stream with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

49 Ain My eyes run down, and cease not, for there is no relief,

49 My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,

50 Ain Until the LORD looks down, and beholds from the heavens.

50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

51 Ain My eyes make my soul sad because of all the daughters of my city.

51 What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.

52 Tzaddi My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.

52 Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.

53 Tzaddi They bound up my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

53 They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;

54 Tzaddi Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am dead.

54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.

55 Koph I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

55 I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the pit.

56 Koph Thou hast heard my voice; do not hide thine ear at my cry that I might breath.

56 You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”

57 Koph Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou didst say, Fear not.

57 You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”

58 Resh O Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

58 You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.

59 Resh O LORD, thou hast seen where I was wrong; plead thou my cause.

59 LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!

60 Resh Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

60 You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.

61 Schin Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

61 LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

62 Schin The words of those that rose up against me, and their design against me all the day.

62 what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.

63 Schin Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.

63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.

64 Tau Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

64 Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done.

65 Tau Give them sorrow of heart; thy curse unto them.

65 Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!

66 Tau Persecute them in thy anger and cut them off from under the heavens, oh LORD.

66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

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