Lamentations 3 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation. I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD’s wrath.
2 ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light. he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;
3 ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long. surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.
4 BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones. He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
5 BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship. he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead. he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago. He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
7 GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement. He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy; He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.
8 GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer. though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9 GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths. he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
10 DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding. He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding; Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
11 DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation. he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate; he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.
12 DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows. he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
13 HE. He has shot into my kidneys the daughters of his quiver. He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver; He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
14 HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day. I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long. I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15 HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood. He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood. He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.
16 VAU. And he has broken each one of my teeth; he has fed me with ashes. He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes; He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.
17 VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good. my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.” so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD.” So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.”
19 ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall. Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
20 ZAIN. I will call to mind the past, and my soul shall languish within me. My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
21 ZAIN. These recollections are in my heart; therefore, I shall hope. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
22 HETH. By the mercies of the Lord, we are not consumed. For his compassion has not passed away. The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
23 HETH. I know it at first light; great is your faithfulness. they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
24 HETH. “The Lord is my portion,” said my soul. Because of this, I will wait for him. “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
25 TETH. The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him. The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
26 TETH. It is good to stand ready in silence for the salvation of God. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
27 TETH. It is good for a man, when he has carried the yoke from his youth. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.
28 JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself. Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him; Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him.
29 JOD. He shall place his mouth in the dirt, if perhaps there may be hope. let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope; Let him bury his face in the dust— there may yet be hope.
30 JOD. He shall give his cheek to those who strike him; he shall be saturated with reproaches. let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults. Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.
31 CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever. For the Lord will not cast off forever, For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.
32 CAPH. For, if he has cast down, he will also have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies. but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
33 CAPH. For he has not humiliated from his heart, nor has he thrown aside the sons of men, for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.
34 LAMED. as if to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land, To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
35 LAMED. as if to turn aside the judgment of a man in the sight of the presence of the Most High, to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, to deny people their rights before the Most High,
36 LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this. to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve. to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?
37 MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command? Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
38 MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
39 MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins? Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins? Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
40 NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord. Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD! Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
41 NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens. Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
42 NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless. “We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven. “We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
43 SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared. “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
44 SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through. you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through. You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
45 SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out. You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples. You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46 PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us. “All our enemies open their mouths against us; “All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
47 PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief. panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction; We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”
48 PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people. my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
49 AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest “My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite, My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
50 AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens. until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees; until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city. my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city. What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
52 SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason. “I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause; Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
53 SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me. they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me; They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
54 SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, “I am lost.” water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’ the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.
55 COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit. “I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit; I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the pit.
56 COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries. you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!’ You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”
57 COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, “Fear not.” You came near when I called on you; you said, ‘Do not fear!’ You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”
58 RES. You have judged, O Lord, the case of my soul. You are the Redeemer of my life. “You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life. You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.
59 RES. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me. Judge my case. You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause. LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
60 RES. You have seen all their fury, every one of their thoughts is against me. You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
61 SIN. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their thoughts are against me. “You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me. LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
62 SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long. The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long. what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
63 SIN. Watch their sitting down and their rising up: I am their psalm. Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts. Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
64 THAU. You shall pay a recompense to them, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. “You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done.
65 THAU. You shall give them a heavy shield of the heart: your hardship. You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them. Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
66 THAU. You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord. You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD.” Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
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