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Lamentations 3
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
1Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
1I <FI>am<Fi> the man <FI>who<Fi> hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
2Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
2Me He hath led, and causeth to go <FI>in<Fi> darkness, and without light.
3Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
3Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.
4Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.
4He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.
5Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.
5He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
6Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.
7Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.
7He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
8Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
8Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.
9Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
9He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
10Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
10A bear lying in wait He <FI>is<Fi> to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.
11Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
11My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.
12Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
12He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.
13He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.
13He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.
14He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
14I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
15He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.
15He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me <FI>with<Fi> wormwood.
16Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.
16And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
17Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.
17And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.
18Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
18And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.
19Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
19Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
20Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.
20Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.
21Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.
21This I turn to my heart--therefore I hope.
22Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
22The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.
23Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.
23New every morning, abundant <FI>is<Fi> thy faithfulness.
24Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.
24My portion <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.
25Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.
25Good <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul <FI>that<Fi> seeketh Him.
26Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.
26Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.
27Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.
27Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.
28Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.
28He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid <FI>it<Fi> upon him.
29Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
29He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope.
30Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.
30He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach.
32Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.
32For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.
33Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.
33For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men.
34Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
34To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth,
35Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,
35To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,
36Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.
36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved.
37Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?
37Who <FI>is<Fi> this--he hath said, and it is, <FI>And<Fi> the Lord hath not commanded <FI>it<Fi> ?
38Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?
38From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.
39Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?
39What--sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?
40Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.
40We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
41Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.
41We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.
42Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
42We--we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou--Thou hast not forgiven.
43Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
43Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain--Thou hast not pitied.
44Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
44Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.
45Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
45Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.
46Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
46Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
47Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
47Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.
48Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
48Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:
49Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission,
50Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
50Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,
51Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
51My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
52Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
52Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.
53Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
53They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.
54Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
54Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
55Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.
55I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.
56Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.
56My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing--at my cry.
57Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.
57Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee, Thou hast said, Fear not.
58Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.
58Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.
59Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.
59Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause.
60Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.
60Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.
61Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.
61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me,
62Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.
62The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.
63Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
63Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I <FI>am<Fi> their song.
64Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
64Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands.