| Lam. 3:1 |
I am the man who has seen affliction / By the rod of His wrath. |
| Lam. 3:2 |
He has driven me and brought me / Into darkness and not light. |
| Lam. 3:3 |
Surely against me He has turned His hand / Again and again all the day. |
| Lam. 3:4 |
He has wasted my flesh and my skin; / He has broken my bones. |
| Lam. 3:5 |
He has built up [a siege] against me / And encircled me with gall and travail. |
| Lam. 3:6 |
He has made me dwell in dark places, / Like those who have long been dead. |
| Lam. 3:7 |
He has walled me about so that I cannot go forth; / He has made my bronze chain heavy. |
| Lam. 3:8 |
Indeed, when I cry out and call for help, / He shuts out my prayer. |
| Lam. 3:9 |
He has walled in my ways with hewn stone; / He has made my paths crooked. |
| Lam. 3:10 |
He is to me like a bear lying in wait, / Like a lion in hidden places. |
| Lam. 3:11 |
He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; / He has made me desolate. |
| Lam. 3:12 |
He bent His bow / And set me as a target for the arrow. |
| Lam. 3:13 |
He has caused the arrows of His quiver / To enter my inward parts. |
| Lam. 3:14 |
I have become a derision to all my people, / Their [mocking] song all the day. |
| Lam. 3:15 |
He has filled me with bitterness; / He has made me drunk with wormwood. |
| Lam. 3:16 |
He has also crushed my teeth with gravel; / He has covered me with ashes. |
| Lam. 3:17 |
And You have removed my soul far from peace; / I have forgotten prosperity. |
| Lam. 3:18 |
And I said, My strength has perished / As well as my hope in Jehovah. |
| Lam. 3:19 |
Remember my affliction and my wandering, / The wormwood and the gall. |
| Lam. 3:20 |
My soul remembers [them] well / And is bowed down within me. |
| Lam. 3:21 |
This I recall to my heart; / Therefore I have hope. |
| Lam. 3:22 |
[It is] Jehovah's lovingkindness that we are not consumed, / For His compassions do not fail; |
| Lam. 3:23 |
They are new every morning; / Great is Your faithfulness. |
| Lam. 3:24 |
Jehovah is my portion, says my soul; / Therefore I hope in Him. |
| Lam. 3:25 |
Jehovah is good to those who wait on Him, / To the soul that seeks Him. |
| Lam. 3:26 |
It is good for one to hope, and [to do so] in silence, / For the salvation of Jehovah. |
| Lam. 3:27 |
It is good for a man to bear / The yoke in his youth. |
| Lam. 3:28 |
Let him sit alone and be silent, / Because He has laid [it] upon him. |
| Lam. 3:29 |
Let him put his mouth in the dust-- / Perhaps there is hope. |
| Lam. 3:30 |
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; / Let him be filled with reproach. |
| Lam. 3:31 |
For the Lord will not / Cast off forever. |
| Lam. 3:32 |
But even if He causes grief, He will have compassion / According to the multitude of His lovingkindness; |
| Lam. 3:33 |
For He does not afflict willingly / Or grieve the children of men. |
| Lam. 3:34 |
The crushing under his foot / Of all the prisoners of the earth, |
| Lam. 3:35 |
The turning aside of the justice due a man / Before the face of the Most High, |
| Lam. 3:36 |
The wronging of a man in his cause-- / Will not the Lord see [all these?] |
| Lam. 3:37 |
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, / What the Lord has not commanded? |
| Lam. 3:38 |
Out of the mouth of the Most High / Do there not proceed evil things and something good? |
| Lam. 3:39 |
Why does a living man complain, / A man for the punishment of his sins? |
| Lam. 3:40 |
Let us examine our ways and try [them,] / And let us turn again to Jehovah. |
| Lam. 3:41 |
Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands / Unto God in the heavens. |
| Lam. 3:42 |
We have transgressed and rebelled; / You have not pardoned. |
| Lam. 3:43 |
You have covered [Yourself] with anger and have pursued us; / You have slain; You have not spared. |
| Lam. 3:44 |
You have covered Yourself with a cloud / That prayer might not pass through. |
| Lam. 3:45 |
You have made us offscouring and refuse / In the midst of the peoples. |
| Lam. 3:46 |
All our enemies have opened / Their mouths against us. |
| Lam. 3:47 |
Fear and the pit are upon us, / Devastation and destruction. |
| Lam. 3:48 |
My eye runs down with streams of water / For the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| Lam. 3:49 |
My eye pours forth and does not stop; / There is no cessation, |
| Lam. 3:50 |
Until Jehovah looks down / And sees from the heavens. |
| Lam. 3:51 |
My eye pains my soul / Because of all the daughters of my city. |
| Lam. 3:52 |
They have hunted me down like a bird, / [They who are] my enemies without cause. |
| Lam. 3:53 |
They have brought my life to its end in the pit / And have thrown a stone upon me. |
| Lam. 3:54 |
Water streamed over my head; / I said, I have been cut off. |
| Lam. 3:55 |
I called upon Your name, O Jehovah, / From the lowest pit. |
| Lam. 3:56 |
You have heard my voice; do not hide / Your ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
| Lam. 3:57 |
You drew near in the day that I called upon You; / You said, Do not fear. |
| Lam. 3:58 |
Lord, You have pleaded my soul's case; / You have redeemed my life. |
| Lam. 3:59 |
You have seen, O Jehovah, my oppression; / Judge my cause. |
| Lam. 3:60 |
You have seen all their vengeance, / All their plans, against me. |
| Lam. 3:61 |
You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, / All their plans against me, |
| Lam. 3:62 |
The lips of those who rise up against me / And their meditation against me all the day. |
| Lam. 3:63 |
Look upon their sitting down and their rising up; / I am their mocking song. |
| Lam. 3:64 |
You will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, / According to the work of their hands. |
| Lam. 3:65 |
You will give them hardness of heart; / Your curse be upon them. |
| Lam. 3:66 |
You will pursue them in anger and will destroy them / From under the heavens of Jehovah. |