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Lamentations 3 (WEBP)

[1] I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
[2] He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
[3] Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
[4] He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
[5] He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
[6] He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
[7] He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
[8] Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
[9] He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
[10] He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
[11] He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
[12] He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
[13] He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
[14] I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
[15] He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
[16] He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
[17] You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
[18] I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
[19] Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
[20] My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
[21] This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
[22] It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
[23] They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
[24] “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
[25] Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
[26] It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
[27] It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
[28] Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
[29] Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
[30] Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
[31] For the Lord will not cast off forever.
[32] For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
[33] For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
[34] To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
[35] to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
[36] to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
[37] Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
[38] Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
[39] Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
[40] Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
[41] Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
[42] “We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
[43] “You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
[44] You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
[45] You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
[46] “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
[47] Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
[48] My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
[49] My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,
[50] until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.
[51] My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
[52] They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
[53] They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
[54] Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
[55] I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
[56] You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
[57] You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
[58] Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
[59] Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
[60] You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
[61] You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,
[62] the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
[63] You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
[64] You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
[65] You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
[66] You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

Lamentations 3:41 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Lamentations 3 (KJVS)

[1] I am the man that hath seen () affliction By the rod of his wrath.
[2] He hath led () me, and brought () me Into darkness, but not into light.
[3] Surely against me is he turned; () he turneth () his hand Against me all the day.
[4] My flesh and my skin hath he made old; () He hath broken () my bones.
[5] He hath builded against () me, And compassed () me with gall and travail.
[6] He hath set () me in dark places, As they that be dead () of old.
[7] He hath hedged () me about, that I cannot get out: () He hath made my chain heavy. ()
[8] Also when I cry () and shout, () He shutteth out () my prayer.
[9] He hath inclosed () my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked. ()
[10] He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, () And as a lion in secret places.
[11] He hath turned aside () my ways, and pulled me in pieces: () He hath made () me desolate. ()
[12] He hath bent () his bow, and set () me As a mark for the arrow.
[13] He hath caused the arrows of his quiver To enter () into my reins.
[14] I was a derision to all my people; And their song all the day.
[15] He hath filled () me with bitterness, He hath made me drunken () with wormwood.
[16] He hath also broken () my teeth with gravel stones, He hath covered () me with ashes.
[17] And thou hast removed my soul far off () from peace: I forgat () prosperity.
[18] And I said, () My strength and my hope Is perished () from the Lord:
[19] Remembering () mine affliction and my misery, The wormwood and the gall.
[20] My soul hath them still () in remembrance, () And is humbled () in me.
[21] This I recall () to my mind, Therefore have I hope. ()
[22] It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, () Because his compassions fail () not.
[23] They are new every morning: Great is thy faithfulness.
[24] The Lord is my portion, saith () my soul; Therefore will I hope () in him.
[25] The Lord is good unto them that wait () for him, To the soul that seeketh () him.
[26] It is good that a man should both hope () () and quietly Wait for the salvation of the Lord.
[27] It is good for a man that he bear () The yoke in his youth.
[28] He sitteth () alone and keepeth silence, () Because he hath borne () it upon him.
[29] He putteth () his mouth in the dust; If so be there may be hope.
[30] He giveth () his cheek to him that smiteth () him: He is filled full () with reproach.
[31] For the Lord will not Cast off () for ever:
[32] But though he cause grief, () yet will he have compassion () According to the multitude of his mercies.
[33] For he doth not afflict () willingly Nor grieve () the children of men.
[34] To crush () under his feet All the prisoners of the earth,
[35] To turn aside () the right of a man Before the face of the Most High,
[36] To subvert () a man in his cause, The Lord approveth () not.
[37] Who is he that saith, () and it cometh to pass, When the Lord commandeth () it not?
[38] Out of the mouth of the Most High Proceedeth () not evil and good?
[39] Wherefore doth a living man complain, () A man for the punishment of his sins?
[40] Let us search () and try () our ways, And turn again () to the Lord.
[41] Let us lift up () our heart with our hands Unto God in the heavens.
[42] We have transgressed () and have rebelled: () Thou hast not pardoned. ()
[43] Thou hast covered () with anger, and persecuted () us: Thou hast slain, () thou hast not pitied. ()
[44] Thou hast covered () thyself with a cloud, That our prayer should not pass through. ()
[45] Thou hast made () us as the offscouring and refuse In the midst of the people.
[46] All our enemies () Have opened () their mouths against us.
[47] Fear and a snare is come upon us, Desolation and destruction.
[48] Mine eye runneth down () with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
[49] Mine eye trickleth down, () and ceaseth () not, Without any intermission,
[50] Till the Lord look down, () And behold () from heaven.
[51] Mine eye affecteth () mine heart Because of all the daughters of my city.
[52] Mine enemies () chased () me sore, () like a bird, Without cause.
[53] They have cut off () my life in the dungeon, And cast () a stone upon me.
[54] Waters flowed over () mine head; Then I said, () I am cut off. ()
[55] I called () upon thy name, O Lord, Out of the low dungeon.
[56] Thou hast heard () my voice: Hide () not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
[57] Thou drewest near () in the day that I called () upon thee: Thou saidst, () Fear () not.
[58] O Lord, thou hast pleaded () the causes of my soul; Thou hast redeemed () my life.
[59] O Lord, thou hast seen () my wrong: Judge () thou my cause.
[60] Thou hast seen () all their vengeance And all their imaginations against me.
[61] Thou hast heard () their reproach, O Lord, And all their imaginations against me;
[62] The lips of those that rose up () against me, And their device against me all the day.
[63] Behold () their sitting down, () and their rising up; I am their musick.
[64] Render () unto them a recompence, O Lord, According to the work of their hands.
[65] Give () them sorrow of heart, Thy curse unto them.
[66] Persecute () and destroy () them in anger From under the heavens of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:13 Heb. sons
Lamentations 3:15 Heb. bitternesses
Lamentations 3:16 Or, rolled me in the ashes
Lamentations 3:17 Heb. good
Lamentations 3:19 Or, remember
Lamentations 3:20 Heb. bowed
Lamentations 3:21 Heb. make to return to my heart
Lamentations 3:33 Heb. from his heart
Lamentations 3:35 Or, a superior
Lamentations 3:36 Or, seeth not
Lamentations 3:39 Or, murmur
Lamentations 3:51a Heb. my soul
Lamentations 3:51b Or, more then all

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Lamentations 3 (BYZ)

[1] εγω ανηρ ο βλεπων πτωχειαν εν ραβδω θυμου αυτου επ εμε
[2] παρελαβεν με και απηγαγεν εις σκοτος και ου φως
[3] πλην εν εμοι επεστρεψεν χειρα αυτου ολην την ημεραν
[4] επαλαιωσεν σαρκας μου και δερμα μου οστεα μου συνετριψεν
[5] ανωκοδομησεν κατ εμου και εκυκλωσεν κεφαλην μου και εμοχθησεν
[6] εν σκοτεινοις εκαθισεν με ως νεκρους αιωνος
[7] ανωκοδομησεν κατ εμου και ουκ εξελευσομαι εβαρυνεν χαλκον μου
[8] και γε κεκραξομαι και βοησω απεφραξεν προσευχην μου
[9] ανωκοδομησεν οδους μου ενεφραξεν τριβους μου εταραξεν
[10] αρκος ενεδρευουσα αυτος μοι λεων εν κρυφαιοις
[11] κατεδιωξεν αφεστηκοτα και κατεπαυσεν με εθετο με ηφανισμενην
[12] ενετεινεν τοξον αυτου και εστηλωσεν με ως σκοπον εις βελος
[13] εισηγαγεν τοις νεφροις μου ιους φαρετρας αυτου
[14] εγενηθην γελως παντι λαω μου ψαλμος αυτων ολην την ημεραν
[15] εχορτασεν με πικριας εμεθυσεν με χολης
[16] και εξεβαλεν ψηφω οδοντας μου εψωμισεν με σποδον
[17] και απωσατο εξ ειρηνης ψυχην μου επελαθομην αγαθα
[18] και ειπα απωλετο νεικος μου και η ελπις μου απο κυριου
[19] εμνησθην απο πτωχειας μου και εκ διωγμου μου πικριας και χολης μου
[20] μνησθησεται και καταδολεσχησει επ εμε η ψυχη μου
[21] ταυτην ταξω εις την καρδιαν μου δια τουτο υπομενω …
[25] αγαθος κυριος τοις υπομενουσιν αυτον ψυχη η ζητησει αυτον αγαθον
[26] και υπομενει και ησυχασει εις το σωτηριον κυριου
[27] αγαθον ανδρι οταν αρη ζυγον εν νεοτητι αυτου
[28] καθησεται κατα μονας και σιωπησεται οτι ηρεν εφ εαυτω …
[30] δωσει τω παιοντι αυτον σιαγονα χορτασθησεται ονειδισμων
[31] οτι ουκ εις τον αιωνα απωσεται κυριος
[32] οτι ο ταπεινωσας οικτιρησει κατα το πληθος του ελεους αυτου
[33] οτι ουκ απεκριθη απο καρδιας αυτου και εταπεινωσεν υιους ανδρος
[34] του ταπεινωσαι υπο τους ποδας αυτου παντας δεσμιους γης
[35] του εκκλιναι κρισιν ανδρος κατεναντι προσωπου υψιστου
[36] καταδικασαι ανθρωπον εν τω κρινεσθαι αυτον κυριος ουκ ειπεν
[37] τις ουτως ειπεν και εγενηθη κυριος ουκ ενετειλατο
[38] εκ στοματος υψιστου ουκ εξελευσεται τα κακα και το αγαθον
[39] τι γογγυσει ανθρωπος ζων ανηρ περι της αμαρτιας αυτου
[40] εξηρευνηθη η οδος ημων και ητασθη και επιστρεψωμεν εως κυριου
[41] αναλαβωμεν καρδιας ημων επι χειρων προς υψηλον εν ουρανω
[42] ημαρτησαμεν ησεβησαμεν και ουχ ιλασθης
[43] επεσκεπασας εν θυμω και απεδιωξας ημας απεκτεινας ουκ εφεισω
[44] επεσκεπασας νεφελην σεαυτω εινεκεν προσευχης
[45] καμμυσαι με και απωσθηναι εθηκας ημας εν μεσω των λαων
[46] διηνοιξαν εφ ημας το στομα αυτων παντες οι εχθροι ημων
[47] φοβος και θυμος εγενηθη ημιν επαρσις και συντριβη
[48] αφεσεις υδατων καταξει ο οφθαλμος μου επι το συντριμμα της θυγατρος του λαου μου
[49] ο οφθαλμος μου κατεποθη και ου σιγησομαι του μη ειναι εκνηψιν
[50] εως ου διακυψη και ιδη κυριος εξ ουρανου
[51] ο οφθαλμος μου επιφυλλιει επι την ψυχην μου παρα πασας θυγατερας πολεως
[52] θηρευοντες εθηρευσαν με ως στρουθιον οι εχθροι μου δωρεαν
[53] εθανατωσαν εν λακκω ζωην μου και επεθηκαν λιθον επ εμοι
[54] υπερεχυθη υδωρ επι κεφαλην μου ειπα απωσμαι
[55] επεκαλεσαμην το ονομα σου κυριε εκ λακκου κατωτατου
[56] φωνην μου ηκουσας μη κρυψης τα ωτα σου εις την δεησιν μου
[57] εις την βοηθειαν μου ηγγισας εν η σε ημερα επεκαλεσαμην ειπας μοι μη φοβου
[58] εδικασας κυριε τας δικας της ψυχης μου ελυτρωσω την ζωην μου
[59] ειδες κυριε τας ταραχας μου εκρινας την κρισιν μου
[60] ειδες πασαν την εκδικησιν αυτων εις παντας διαλογισμους αυτων εν εμοι
[61] ηκουσας τον ονειδισμον αυτων παντας τους διαλογισμους αυτων κατ εμου
[62] χειλη επανιστανομενων μοι και μελετας αυτων κατ εμου ολην την ημεραν
[63] καθεδραν αυτων και αναστασιν αυτων επιβλεψον επι τους οφθαλμους αυτων
[64] αποδωσεις αυτοις ανταποδομα κυριε κατα τα εργα των χειρων αυτων
[65] αποδωσεις αυτοις υπερασπισμον καρδιας μοχθον σου αυτοις
[66] καταδιωξεις εν οργη και εξαναλωσεις αυτους υποκατω του ουρανου κυριε