Lamentations 3
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1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
1אני הגבר ראה עני בשבט עברתו׃
2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
2אותי נהג וילך חשך ולא אור׃
3Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
3אך בי ישב יהפך ידו כל היום׃
4He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
4בלה בשרי ועורי שבר עצמותי׃
5He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
5בנה עלי ויקף ראש ותלאה׃
6He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
6במחשכים הושיבני כמתי עולם׃
7He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
7גדר בעדי ולא אצא הכביד נחשתי׃
8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
8גם כי אזעק ואשוע שתם תפלתי׃
9He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
9גדר דרכי בגזית נתיבתי עוה׃
10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
10דב ארב הוא לי אריה במסתרים׃
11He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
11דרכי סורר ויפשחני שמני שמם׃
12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
12דרך קשתו ויציבני כמטרא לחץ׃
13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
13הביא בכליותי בני אשפתו׃
14I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
14הייתי שחק לכל עמי נגינתם כל היום׃
15He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
15השביעני במרורים הרוני לענה׃
16He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
16ויגרס בחצץ שני הכפישני באפר׃
17You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
17ותזנח משלום נפשי נשיתי טובה׃
18I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD.”
18ואמר אבד נצחי ותוחלתי מיהוה׃
19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
19זכר עניי ומרודי לענה וראש׃
20My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
20זכור תזכור ותשיח עלי נפשי׃
21This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
21זאת אשיב אל לבי על כן אוחיל׃
22It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
22חסדי יהוה כי לא תמנו כי לא כלו רחמיו׃
23They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
23חדשים לבקרים רבה אמונתך׃
24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
24חלקי יהוה אמרה נפשי על כן אוחיל לו׃
25The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
25טוב יהוה לקוו לנפש תדרשנו׃
26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
26טוב ויחיל ודומם לתשועת יהוה׃
27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
27טוב לגבר כי ישא על בנעוריו׃
28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
28ישב בדד וידם כי נטל עליו׃
29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
29יתן בעפר פיהו אולי יש תקוה׃
30Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
30יתן למכהו לחי ישבע בחרפה׃
31For the Lord will not cast off forever.
31כי לא יזנח לעולם אדני׃
32For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
32כי אם הוגה ורחם כרב חסדו׃
33For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
33כי לא ענה מלבו ויגה בני איש׃
34To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
34לדכא תחת רגליו כל אסירי ארץ׃
35to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
35להטות משפט גבר נגד פני עליון׃
36to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
36לעות אדם בריבו אדני לא ראה׃
37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
37מי זה אמר ותהי אדני לא צוה׃
38Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
38מפי עליון לא תצא הרעות והטוב׃
39Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
39מה יתאונן אדם חי גבר על חטאו׃
40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
40נחפשה דרכינו ונחקרה ונשובה עד יהוה׃
41Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
41נשא לבבנו אל כפים אל אל בשמים׃
42“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
42נחנו פשענו ומרינו אתה לא סלחת׃
43“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
43סכתה באף ותרדפנו הרגת לא חמלת׃
44You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
44סכותה בענן לך מעבור תפלה׃
45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
45סחי ומאוס תשימנו בקרב העמים׃
46“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
46פצו עלינו פיהם כל איבינו׃
47Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
47פחד ופחת היה לנו השאת והשבר׃
48My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
48פלגי מים תרד עיני על שבר בת עמי׃
49My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,
49עיני נגרה ולא תדמה מאין הפגות׃
50until the LORD looks down, and sees from heaven.
50עד ישקיף וירא יהוה משמים׃
51My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
51עיני עוללה לנפשי מכל בנות עירי׃
52They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
52צוד צדוני כצפור איבי חנם׃
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
53צמתו בבור חיי וידו אבן בי׃
54Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
54צפו מים על ראשי אמרתי נגזרתי׃
55I called on your name, LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.
55קראתי שמך יהוה מבור תחתיות׃
56You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
56קולי שמעת אל תעלם אזנך לרוחתי לשועתי׃
57You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
57קרבת ביום אקראך אמרת אל תירא׃
58Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
58רבת אדני ריבי נפשי גאלת חיי׃
59LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
59ראיתה יהוה עותתי שפטה משפטי׃
60You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
60ראיתה כל נקמתם כל מחשבתם לי׃
61You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their plans against me,
61שמעת חרפתם יהוה כל מחשבתם עלי׃
62the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
62שפתי קמי והגיונם עלי כל היום׃
63You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
63שבתם וקימתם הביטה אני מנגינתם׃
64You will pay them back, LORD, according to the work of their hands.
64תשיב להם גמול יהוה כמעשה ידיהם׃
65You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
65תתן להם מגנת לב תאלתך להם׃
66You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
66תרדף באף ותשמידם מתחת שמי יהוה׃
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