Lamentations 3 (DRA)

v1

Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

v2

Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

v3

Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

v4

Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

v5

Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.

v6

Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.

v7

Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

v8

Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

v9

Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

v10

Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

v11

Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.

v12

Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

v13

He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.

v14

He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.

v15

He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.

v16

Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

v17

Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.

v18

Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.

v19

Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.

v20

Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.

v21

Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.

v22

Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

v23

Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.

v24

Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

v25

Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

v26

Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

v27

Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.

v28

Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

v29

Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

v30

Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

v31

Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

v32

Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.

v33

Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

v34

Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

v35

Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,

v36

Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.

v37

Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

v38

Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?

v39

Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?

v40

Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.

v41

Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.

v42

Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.

v43

Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.

v44

Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

v45

Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.

v46

Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

v47

Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.

v48

Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

v49

Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:

v50

Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.

v51

Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

v52

Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

v53

Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.

v54

Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

v55

Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

v56

Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

v57

Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.

v58

Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.

v59

Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.

v60

Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.

v61

Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.

v62

Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

v63

Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.

v64

Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

v65

Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.

v66

Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

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