Lamentations 3 : 1 (NET)
I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3 : 2 (NET)
He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
Lamentations 3 : 3 (NET)
He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.&u05D1; (Bet)
Lamentations 3 : 4 (NET)
He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.
Lamentations 3 : 5 (NET)
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
Lamentations 3 : 6 (NET)
He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.&u05D2; (Gimel)
Lamentations 3 : 7 (NET)
He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
Lamentations 3 : 8 (NET)
Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
Lamentations 3 : 9 (NET)
He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.&u05D3; (Dalet)
Lamentations 3 : 10 (NET)
To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.
Lamentations 3 : 11 (NET)
He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
Lamentations 3 : 12 (NET)
He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.&u05D4; (He)
Lamentations 3 : 13 (NET)
He shot his arrows into my heart.
Lamentations 3 : 14 (NET)
I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.
Lamentations 3 : 15 (NET)
He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.&u05D5; (Vav)
Lamentations 3 : 16 (NET)
He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
Lamentations 3 : 17 (NET)
I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
Lamentations 3 : 18 (NET)
So I said, "My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the LORD."&u05D6; (Zayin)
Lamentations 3 : 19 (NET)
Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.
Lamentations 3 : 20 (NET)
I continually think about this, and I am depressed.
Lamentations 3 : 21 (NET)
But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope:&u05D7; (Khet)
Lamentations 3 : 22 (NET)
The LORD's loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.
Lamentations 3 : 23 (NET)
They are fresh every morning; your faithfulness is abundant!
Lamentations 3 : 24 (NET)
"My portion is the Lord," I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.&u05D8; (Tet)
Lamentations 3 : 25 (NET)
The LORD is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.
Lamentations 3 : 26 (NET)
It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the LORD.
Lamentations 3 : 27 (NET)
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.&u05D9; (Yod)
Lamentations 3 : 28 (NET)
Let a person sit alone in silence, when the LORD is disciplining him.
Lamentations 3 : 29 (NET)
Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.
Lamentations 3 : 30 (NET)
Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; let him have his fill of insults.&u05DB; (Kaf)
Lamentations 3 : 31 (NET)
For the Lord will not reject us forever.
Lamentations 3 : 32 (NET)
Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.
Lamentations 3 : 33 (NET)
For he is not predisposed to afflict or to grieve people.&u05DC; (Lamed)
Lamentations 3 : 34 (NET)
To crush underfoot all the earth's prisoners,
Lamentations 3 : 35 (NET)
to deprive a person of his rights in the presence of the Most High,
Lamentations 3 : 36 (NET)
to defraud a person in a lawsuit� the Lord does not approve of such things!&u05DE; (Mem)
Lamentations 3 : 37 (NET)
Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?
Lamentations 3 : 38 (NET)
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes� both calamity and blessing?
Lamentations 3 : 39 (NET)
Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?&u05E0; (Nun)
Lamentations 3 : 40 (NET)
Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the LORD.
Lamentations 3 : 41 (NET)
Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:
Lamentations 3 : 42 (NET)
"We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven."&u05E1; (Samek)
Lamentations 3 : 43 (NET)
You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.
Lamentations 3 : 44 (NET)
You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
Lamentations 3 : 45 (NET)
You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.&u05E4; (Pe)
Lamentations 3 : 46 (NET)
All our enemies have gloated over us;
Lamentations 3 : 47 (NET)
Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Lamentations 3 : 48 (NET)
Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.&u05E2; (Ayin)
Lamentations 3 : 49 (NET)
Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no break
Lamentations 3 : 50 (NET)
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees what has happened.
Lamentations 3 : 51 (NET)
What my eyes see grieves me� all the suffering of the daughters in my city.&u05E6; (Tsade)
Lamentations 3 : 52 (NET)
For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird.
Lamentations 3 : 53 (NET)
They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.
Lamentations 3 : 54 (NET)
The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die.&u05E7; (Qof)
Lamentations 3 : 55 (NET)
I have called on your name, O LORD, from the deepest pit.
Lamentations 3 : 56 (NET)
You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!"
Lamentations 3 : 57 (NET)
You came near on the day I called to you; you said, "Do not fear!"&u05E8; (Resh)
Lamentations 3 : 58 (NET)
O Lord, you championed my cause, you redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3 : 59 (NET)
You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; pronounce judgment on my behalf!
Lamentations 3 : 60 (NET)
You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.&u05E9; (Sin/Shin)
Lamentations 3 : 61 (NET)
You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me.
Lamentations 3 : 62 (NET)
My assailants revile and conspire against me all day long.
Lamentations 3 : 63 (NET)
Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs.&u05EA; (Tav)
Lamentations 3 : 64 (NET)
Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to what they have done.
Lamentations 3 : 65 (NET)
Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them!
Lamentations 3 : 66 (NET)
Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the LORD's heaven.&u05D0; (Alef)
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