Jubilee2000 - Lamentations - 3

3:1  [Aleph] I [am] a man [that] sees affliction in the rod of his wrath.

3:2  [Aleph] He has led me and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

3:3  [Aleph] Surely he is turned against me; he turns his hand [against me] all the day.

3:4  [Beth] My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.

3:5  [Beth] He has built against me and compassed [me] with gall and travail.

3:6  [Beth] He has set me in dark places as [those that are] dead for ever.

3:7  [Gimel] He has hedged me about that I cannot get out; he has made my chain heavy.

3:8  [Gimel] Even when I cried and shouted, he shut out my prayer.

3:9  [Gimel] He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.

3:10  [Daleth] He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait [and as] a lion in secret places.

3:11  [Daleth] He has made my ways crooked and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

3:12  [Daleth] He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.

3:13  [He] He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

3:14  [He] I was a derision to all my people [and] their song every day.

3:15  [He] He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.

3:16  [Vau] He has broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.

3:17  [Vau] My soul removed itself far from peace; I forgot about good.

3:18  [Vau] And I said, My strength and my hope of the LORD is perished.

3:19  [Zain] Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

3:20  [Zain] My soul shall have [them] still in remembrance because it is humbled in me.

3:21  [Zain] This shall go down into my heart; therefore I shall wait.

3:22  [Chet] It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.

3:23  [Chet They are] new every morning; great [is] thy faith.

3:24  [Chet] The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will wait for him.

3:25  [Teth] The LORD [is] good unto those that wait in him, to the soul [that] seeks him.

3:26  [Teth] [It is] good to wait quietly in the salvation of the LORD.

3:27  [Teth] [It is] good for the man if he bears the yoke from his youth.

3:28  [Jod] He shall sit alone and keep silence because he has borne [it] upon him.

3:29  [Jod] He shall put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

3:30  [Jod] He shall turn [his] cheek unto him that smites him; he shall be filled with reproach.

3:31  [Caph] For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

3:32  [Caph] But though he causes grief, yet he will also have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

3:33  [Caph] For he does not afflict nor grieve the sons of men from his heart.

3:34  [Lamed] To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

3:35  [Lamed] To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

3:36  [Lamed] To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

3:37  [Mem] Who shall he be that saith that something comes which the Lord has not sent?

3:38  [Mem] Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?

3:39  [Mem] Why does the living man have pain, the man in his sins?

3:40  [Nun] Let us search out our ways, and seek, and turn again to the LORD.

3:41  [Nun] Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.

3:42  [Nun] We have rebelled and been disloyal; therefore thou hast not forgiven.

3:43  [Samech] Thou hast unfurled anger and persecuted us; thou hast slain, thou hast not forgiven.

3:44  [Samech] Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that [our] prayer should not pass through.

3:45  [Samech] Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and abomination in the midst of the peoples.

3:46  [Pe] All our enemies have opened their mouths upon us.

3:47  [Pe] Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

3:48  [Pe] My eyes stream with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

3:49  [Ain] My eyes run down, and cease not, for there is no relief,

3:50  [Ain] Until the LORD looks down, and beholds from the heavens.

3:51  [Ain] My eyes make my soul sad because of all the daughters of my city.

3:52  [Tzaddi] My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.

3:53  [Tzaddi] They bound up my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

3:54  [Tzaddi] Waters flowed over my head; [then] I said, I am dead.

3:55  [Koph] I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

3:56  [Koph] Thou hast heard my voice; do not hide thine ear at my cry that I might breath.

3:57  [Koph] Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou didst say, Fear not.

3:58  [Resh] O Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

3:59  [Resh] O LORD, thou hast seen where I was wrong; plead thou my cause.

3:60  [Resh] Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.

3:61  [Schin] Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;

3:62  [Schin] The words of those that rose up against me, and their design against me all the day.

3:63  [Schin] Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their music.

3:64  [Tau] Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

3:65  [Tau] Give them sorrow of heart; thy curse unto them.

3:66  [Tau] Persecute them in thy anger and cut them off from under the heavens, oh LORD.: