Lamentations 3 Parallel Bible

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	GENEVA Geneva Bible of 1587	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	I am the man, that hath seene affliction in 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	He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to 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	Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.	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	My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken 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	He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.	he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;	He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6	He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.	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	He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.	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	Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out 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	He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away 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	He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.	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	He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.	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	He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow.	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	Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.	He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;	He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
14	I was a derision to all my people, and their song all 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 hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood.	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	He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered 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	Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,	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	And I saide, My strength & mine hope is perished from the Lord,	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	Remembring mine affliction, & my mourning, the wormewood 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	My soule hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.	My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.	I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
21	I consider this in mine heart: therefore haue I hope.	But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:	Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
22	It is the Lordes mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.	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	They are renued euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.	they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.	They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
24	The Lorde is my portion, sayth my soule: therefore wil I hope in 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	The Lord is good vnto them, that trust in him, and to the soule that seeketh 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	It is good both to trust, and to waite for the saluation of the Lord.	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	It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in 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	He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it vpon him.	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	He putteth his mouth in the dust, if 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	Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproches.	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	For the Lord will not forsake for euer.	For the Lord will not cast off forever,	For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.
32	But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue 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	For he doeth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children 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	In stamping vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,	To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,	To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
35	In ouerthrowing the right of a man before the face 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	In subuerting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not.	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	Who is he then that sayth, & it commeth to passe, and the Lord commandeth it not?	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	Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not euill and good?	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	Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.	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	Let vs search and try our wayes, and turne againe 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	Let vs lift vp our hearts with our handes vnto God in the heauens.	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	We haue sinned, and haue rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.	“We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.	“We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
43	Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and 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	Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe 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	Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.	You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.	You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46	All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs.	“All our enemies open their mouths against us;	“All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
47	Feare, and a snare is come vpon vs with desolation and destruction.	panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;	We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”
48	Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction 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	Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not,	“My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,	My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
50	Till the Lorde looke downe, and beholde from heauen.	until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees;	until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51	Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.	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	Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.	“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	They haue shut vp my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon 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	Waters flowed ouer mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.	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	I called vpon thy Name, O Lorde, out of the lowe dungeon.	“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	Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.	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	Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saydest, Feare 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	O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed 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	O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.	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	Thou hast seene all their vengeance, and all their deuises 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	Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations 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	The lippes also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.	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	Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.	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	Giue them a recompence, O Lord, according to the worke of their handes.	“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	Giue them sorow of heart, euen thy curse to them.	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	Persecute with wrath & destroy them from vnder the heauen, 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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Lamentations 3 Parallel Bible Translations