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Lamentations 3

The Message Bible MSG

1 I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of God's anger.

2 He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness.

3 Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again.

4 He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones.

5 He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times.

6 He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin.

7 He shuts me in so I'll never get out, manacles my hands, shackles my feet.

8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key.

9 He sets up blockades with quarried limestone. He's got me cornered.

10 He's a prowling bear tracking me down, a lion in hiding ready to pounce.

11 He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me.

12 He took out his bow and arrows and used me for target practice.

13 He shot me in the stomach with arrows from his quiver.

14 Everyone took me for a joke, made me the butt of their mocking ballads.

15 He forced rotten, stinking food down my throat, bloated me with vile drinks.

16 He ground my face into the gravel. He pounded me into the mud.

17 I gave up on life altogether. I've forgotten what the good life is like.

18 I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. God is a lost cause." It's a Good Thing to Hope for Help from God

19 I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed.

20 I remember it all - oh, how well I remember - the feeling of hitting the bottom.

21 But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

22 God's loyal love couldn't have run out, his merciful love couldn't have dried up.

23 They're created new every morning. How great your faithfulness!

24 I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over). He's all I've got left.

25 God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks.

26 It's a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God.

27 It's a good thing when you're young to stick it out through the hard times.

28 When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence.

29 Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions: Wait for hope to appear.

30 Don't run from trouble. Take it full-face. The "worst" is never the worst.

31 Why? Because the Master won't ever walk out and fail to return.

32 If he works severely, he also works tenderly. His stockpiles of loyal love are immense.

33 He takes no pleasure in making life hard, in throwing roadblocks in the way:

34 Stomping down hard on luckless prisoners,

35 Refusing justice to victims in the court of High God,

36 Tampering with evidence - the Master does not approve of such things. God Speaks Both Good Things and Hard Things into Being

37 Who do you think "spoke and it happened"? It's the Master who gives such orders.

38 Doesn't the High God speak everything, good things and hard things alike, into being?

39 And why would anyone gifted with life complain when punished for sin?

40 Let's take a good look at the way we're living and reorder our lives under God.

41 Let's lift our hearts and hands at one and the same time, praying to God in heaven:

42 "We've been contrary and willful, and you haven't forgiven.

43 "You lost your temper with us, holding nothing back. You chased us and cut us down without mercy.

44 You wrapped yourself in thick blankets of clouds so no prayers could get through.

45 You treated us like dirty dishwater, threw us out in the backyard of the nations.

46 "Our enemies shout abuse, their mouths full of derision, spitting invective.

47 We've been to hell and back. We've nowhere to turn, nowhere to go.

48 Rivers of tears pour from my eyes at the smashup of my dear people.

49 "The tears stream from my eyes, an artesian well of tears,

50 Until you, God, look down from on high, look and see my tears.

51 When I see what's happened to the young women in the city, the pain breaks my heart.

52 "Enemies with no reason to be enemies hunted me down like a bird.

53 They threw me into a pit, then pelted me with stones.

54 Then the rains came and filled the pit. The water rose over my head. I said, 'It's all over.'

55 "I called out your name, O God, called from the bottom of the pit.

56 You listened when I called out, 'Don't shut your ears! Get me out of here! Save me!'

57 You came close when I called out. You said, 'It's going to be all right.'

58 "You took my side, Master; you brought me back alive!

59 God, you saw the wrongs heaped on me. Give me my day in court!

60 Yes, you saw their mean-minded schemes, their plots to destroy me.

61 "You heard, God, their vicious gossip, their behind-my-back plots to ruin me.

62 They never quit, these enemies of mine, dreaming up mischief, hatching out malice, day after day after day.

63 Sitting down or standing up - just look at them! - they mock me with vulgar doggerel.

64 "Make them pay for what they've done, God. Give them their just deserts.

65 Break their miserable hearts! Damn their eyes!

66 Get good and angry. Hunt them down. Make a total demolition here under your heaven!"

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 ALEPH ego vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis eius

2 ALEPH me minavit et adduxit in tenebris et non in lucem

3 ALEPH tantum in me vertit et convertit manum suam tota die

4 BETH vetustam fecit pellem meam et carnem meam contrivit ossa mea

5 BETH aedificavit in gyro meo et circumdedit me felle et labore

6 BETH in tenebrosis conlocavit me quasi mortuos sempiternos

7 GIMEL circumaedificavit adversum me ut non egrediar adgravavit conpedem meam

8 GIMEL sed et cum clamavero et rogavero exclusit orationem meam

9 GIMEL conclusit vias meas lapidibus quadris semitas meas subvertit

10 DELETH ursus insidians factus est mihi leo in absconditis

11 DELETH semitas meas subvertit et confregit me posuit me desolatam

12 DELETH tetendit arcum suum et posuit me quasi signum ad sagittam

13 HE misit in renibus meis filias faretrae suae

14 HE factus sum in derisu omni populo meo canticum eorum tota die

15 HE replevit me amaritudinibus inebriavit me absinthio

16 VAV et fregit ad numerum dentes meos cibavit me cinere

17 VAV et repulsa est anima mea oblitus sum bonorum

18 VAV et dixi periit finis meus et spes mea a Domino

19 ZAI recordare paupertatis et transgressionis meae absinthii et fellis

20 ZAI memoria memor ero et tabescet in me anima mea

21 ZAI hoc recolens in corde meo ideo sperabo

22 HETH misericordiae Domini quia non sumus consumpti quia non defecerunt miserationes eius

23 HETH novae diluculo multa est fides tua

24 HETH pars mea Dominus dixit anima mea propterea expectabo eum

25 TETH bonus est Dominus sperantibus in eum animae quaerenti illum

26 TETH bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Domini

27 TETH bonum est viro cum portaverit iugum ab adulescentia sua

28 IOTH sedebit solitarius et tacebit quia levavit super se

29 IOTH ponet in pulvere os suum si forte sit spes

30 IOTH dabit percutienti se maxillam saturabitur obprobriis

31 CAPH quia non repellet in sempiternum Dominus

32 CAPH quia si abiecit et miserebitur secundum multitudinem misericordiarum suarum

33 CAPH non enim humiliavit ex corde suo et abiecit filios hominis

34 LAMED ut contereret sub pedibus suis omnes vinctos terrae

35 LAMED ut declinaret iudicium viri in conspectu vultus Altissimi

36 LAMED ut perverteret hominem in iudicio suo Dominus ignoravit

37 MEM quis est iste qui dixit ut fieret Domino non iubente

38 MEM ex ore Altissimi non egredientur nec mala nec bona

39 MEM quid murmuravit homo vivens vir pro peccatis suis

40 NUN scrutemur vias nostras et quaeramus et revertamur ad Dominum

41 NUN levemus corda nostra cum manibus ad Dominum in caelos

42 NUN nos inique egimus et ad iracundiam provocavimus idcirco tu inexorabilis es

43 SAMECH operuisti in furore et percussisti nos occidisti nec pepercisti

44 SAMECH opposuisti nubem tibi ne transeat oratio

45 SAMECH eradicationem et abiectionem posuisti me in medio populorum

46 FE aperuerunt super nos os suum omnes inimici

47 FE formido et laqueus facta est nobis vaticinatio et contritio

48 FE divisiones aquarum deduxit oculus meus in contritione filiae populi mei

49 AIN oculus meus adflictus est nec tacuit eo quod non esset requies

50 AIN donec respiceret et videret Dominus de caelis

51 AIN oculus meus depraedatus est animam meam in cunctis filiabus urbis meae

52 SADE venatione ceperunt me quasi avem inimici mei gratis

53 SADE lapsa est in lacu vita mea et posuerunt lapidem super me

54 SADE inundaverunt aquae super caput meum dixi perii

55 COPH invocavi nomen tuum Domine de lacis novissimis

56 COPH vocem meam audisti ne avertas aurem tuam a singultu meo et clamoribus

57 COPH adpropinquasti in die quando invocavi te dixisti ne timeas

58 RES iudicasti Domine causam animae meae redemptor vitae meae

59 RES vidisti Domine iniquitatem adversum me iudica iudicium meum

60 RES vidisti omnem furorem universas cogitationes eorum adversum me

61 SEN audisti obprobria eorum Domine omnes cogitationes eorum adversum me

62 SEN labia insurgentium mihi et meditationes eorum adversum me tota die

63 SEN sessionem eorum et resurrectionem eorum vide ego sum psalmus eorum

64 THAU reddes eis vicem Domine iuxta opera manuum suarum

65 THAU dabis eis scutum cordis laborem tuum

66 THAU persequeris in furore et conteres eos sub caelis Domine