Lamentations 3
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Berean Standard Bible
1Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
2Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
3Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
4Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.
4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
5Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.
5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
7Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.
7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
8Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
10Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
11Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
12Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
13He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.
13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
14He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.
15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
16Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.
16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
17Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.
17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
19Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.
19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
20Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.
20Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
21Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.
21Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
22Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
22Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
23Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.
23They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
24Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.
24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
25Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.
25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
26Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.
26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
27Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.
27It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
28Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.
28Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.
29Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
29Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope.
30Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.
30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
31Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
31For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
32Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.
32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
33Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.
33For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
34Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
35Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,
35to deny a man justice before the Most High,
36Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.
36to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
37Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?
37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
38Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?
38Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
39Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?
39Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
40Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.
40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
41Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.
41Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
42Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
43Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
43You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
44Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
44You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
45Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
46All our enemies open their mouths against us.
47Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
47Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.
48Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:
49My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
50Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
51My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
52Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
53Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
54Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
55Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.
55I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
56Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.
56You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
57Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.
57You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”
58Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.
58You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
59Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.
59You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
60Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.
60You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
61Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.
61O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
62Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.
62the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
63Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
64Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
64You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.
65Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!
66Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.
66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
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