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Lamentations 3

New International Reader's Version NIRV

1 I am a man who has suffered greatly. The LORD has used the Babylonians to punish our people.

2 He has driven me away. He has made me walk in darkness instead of light.

3 He has turned his powerful hand against me. He has done it again and again, all day long.

4 He has worn my body out. He has broken my bones.

5 He has surrounded me and attacked me. He has made me suffer bitterly. He has made things hard for me.

6 He has made me live in darkness like those who are dead and gone.

7 He has built walls around me. I can't escape. He has put heavy chains on me.

8 I call out and cry for help. But he won't listen to me when I pray.

9 He has put up a stone wall to block my way. He has made my paths crooked.

10 He has been like a bear waiting to attack me. He has been like a lion hiding in the bushes.

11 He has dragged me off the path. He has torn me to pieces. And he has left me helpless.

12 He has gotten his bow ready to use. He has shot his arrows at me.

13 The arrows from his bag have gone through my heart.

14 My people laugh at me all the time. They sing and make fun of me all day long.

15 The LORD has made my life bitter. He has made me suffer bitterly.

16 He made me chew stones that broke my teeth. He has walked all over me in the dust.

17 I have lost all hope of ever having any peace. I've forgotten what good times are like.

18 So I say, "My glory has faded away. My hope in the LORD is gone."

19 I remember how I suffered and wandered. I remember how bitter my life was.

20 I remember it very well. My spirit is very sad deep down inside me.

21 But here is something else I remember. And it gives me hope.

22 The LORD loves us very much. So we haven't been completely destroyed. His loving concern never fails.

23 His great love is new every morning. Lord, how faithful you are!

24 I say to myself, "The LORD is everything I will ever need. So I will put my hope in him."

25 The LORD is good to those who put their hope in him. He is good to those who look to him.

26 It is good when people wait quietly for the LORD to save them.

27 It is good for a man to carry a heavy load of suffering while he is young.

28 Let him sit alone and not say anything. The LORD has placed that load on him.

29 Let him bury his face in the dust. There might still be hope for him.

30 Let him turn his cheek toward those who would slap him. Let him be filled with shame.

31 The Lord doesn't turn his back on people forever.

32 He might bring suffering. But he will also show loving concern. How great his faithful love is!

33 He doesn't want to bring pain or suffering to people.

34 Every time people crush prisoners under their feet, the Lord knows all about it.

35 When people refuse to give a man his rights, the Most High God knows it.

36 When people don't treat a man fairly, the Lord knows it.

37 Suppose people order something to happen. It won't happen unless the Lord has planned it.

38 Troubles and good things alike come to people because the Most High God has commanded them to come.

39 A man who is still alive shouldn't blame God when God punishes him for his sins.

40 Let's take a good look at the way we're living. Let's return to the Lord.

41 Let's lift up our hands to God in heaven. Let's pray to him with all our hearts.

42 Let's say, "We have sinned. We've refused to obey you. And you haven't forgiven us.

43 "You have covered yourself with the cloud of your anger. You have chased us. You have killed our people without pity.

44 You have covered yourself with the cloud of your anger. Our prayers can't get through to you.

45 You have made us become like trash and garbage among the nations.

46 "All of our enemies have opened their mouths wide to swallow us up.

47 We are terrified and trapped. We are broken and destroyed."

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

49 Tears will never stop flowing from my eyes. My eyes can't get any rest.

50 I'll sob until the LORD looks down from heaven. I'll cry until he notices my tears.

51 What I see brings pain to my spirit. All of the people in my city are suffering so much.

52 Those who were my enemies for no reason at all hunted me down as if I were a bird.

53 They tried to end my life by throwing me into a deep pit. They threw stones down at me.

54 The water rose and covered my head. I thought I was going to die.

55 Lord, I called out to you. I called out from the bottom of the pit.

56 I prayed, "Please don't close your ears to my cry for help." And you heard my appeal.

57 You came near when I called out to you. You said, "Do not be afraid."

58 Lord, you stood up for me in court. You saved my life and set me free.

59 Lord, you have seen the wrong things people have done to me. Stand up for me again!

60 You have seen how my enemies have tried to get even with me. You know all about their plans against me.

61 Lord, you have heard them laugh at me. You know all about their plans against me.

62 You have heard my enemies whispering among themselves. They speak against me all day long.

63 Just look at them sitting and standing there! They sing and make fun of me.

64 Lord, pay them back. Punish them for what their hands have done.

65 Cover their minds with a veil. Put a curse on them!

66 Lord, get angry with them and hunt them down. Wipe them off the face of the earth.

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