DRC, VulgClementine, KJV - Lamentations - 3

3:1  Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

3:1  Ego vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis ejus.

3:1  I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

3:2  Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

3:2  Me minavit, et adduxit in tenebras, et non in lucem.

3:2  He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3:3  Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

3:3  Tantum in me vertit et convertit manum suam tota die.

3:3  Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

3:4  Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

3:4  Vetustam fecit pellem meam et carnem meam ; contrivit ossa mea.

3:4  My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

3:5  Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.

3:5  Ædificavit in gyro meo, et circumdedit me felle et labore.

3:5  He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

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

3:6  In tenebrosis collocavit me, quasi mortuos sempiternos.

3:6  He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

3:7  Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

3:7  Circumædificavit adversum me, ut non egrediar ; aggravavit compedem meum.

3:7  He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

3:8  Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

3:8  Sed et cum clamavero, et rogavero, exclusit orationem meam.

3:8  Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

3:9  Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

3:9  Conclusit vias meas lapidibus quadris ; semitas meas subvertit.

3:9  He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

3:10  Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

3:10  Ursus insidians factus est mihi, leo in absconditis.

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

3:11  Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.

3:11  Semitas meas subvertit, et confregit me ; posuit me desolatam.

3:11  He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

3:12  Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

3:12  Tetendit arcum suum, et posuit me quasi signum ad sagittam.

3:12  He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

3:13  He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.

3:13  Misit in renibus meis filias pharetræ suæ.

3:13  He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

3:14  He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.

3:14  Factus sum in derisum omni populo meo, canticum eorum tota die.

3:14  I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

3:15  He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.

3:15  Replevit me amaritudinibus ; inebriavit me absinthio.

3:15  He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

3:16  Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

3:16  Et fregit ad numerum dentes meos ; cibavit me cinere.

3:16  He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

3:17  Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.

3:17  Et repulsa est a pace anima mea ; oblitus sum bonorum.

3:17  And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

3:18  Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.

3:18  Et dixi : Periit finis meus, et spes mea a Domino.

3:18  And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

3:19  Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.

3:19  Recordare paupertatis, et transgressionis meæ, absinthii et fellis.

3:19  Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

3:20  Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.

3:20  Memoria memor ero, et tabescet in me anima mea.

3:20  My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

3:21  Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.

3:21  Hæc recolens in corde meo, ideo sperabo.

3:21  This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

3:22  Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

3:22  Misericordiæ Domini, quia non sumus consumpti ; quia non defecerunt miserationes ejus.

3:22  It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

3:23  Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.

3:23  Novi diluculo, multa est fides tua.

3:23  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

3:24  Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

3:24  Pars mea Dominus, dixit anima mea ; propterea exspectabo eum.

3:24  The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

3:25  Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

3:25  Bonus est Dominus sperantibus in eum, animæ quærenti illum.

3:25  The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

3:26  Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

3:26  Bonum est præstolari cum silentio salutare Dei.

3:26  It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

3:27  Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.

3:27  Bonum est viro cum portaverit jugum ab adolescentia sua.

3:27  It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

3:28  Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

3:28  Sedebit solitarius, et tacebit, quia levavit super se.

3:28  He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

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

3:29  Ponet in pulvere os suum, si forte sit spes.

3:29  He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

3:30  Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

3:30  Dabit percutienti se maxillam : saturabitur opprobriis.

3:30  He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

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

3:31  Quia non repellet in sempiternum Dominus.

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

3:32  Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.

3:32  Quia si abjecit, et miserebitur, secundum multitudinem misericordiarum suarum.

3:32  But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

3:33  Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

3:33  Non enim humiliavit ex corde suo et abjecit filios hominum.

3:33  For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

3:34  Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

3:34  Ut conteret sub pedibus suis omnes vinctos terræ.

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

3:35  Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,

3:35  Ut declinaret judicium viri in conspectu vultus Altissimi.

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

3:36  Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.

3:36  Ut perverteret hominem in judicio suo ; Dominus ignoravit.

3:36  To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

3:37  Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

3:37  Quis est iste qui dixit ut fieret, Domino non jubente ?

3:37  Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

3:38  Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?

3:38  Ex ore Altissimi non egredientur nec mala nec bona ?

3:38  Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

3:39  Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?

3:39  Quid murmuravit homo vivens, vir pro peccatis suis ?

3:39  Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

3:40  Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.

3:40  Scrutemur vias nostras, et quæramus, et revertamur ad Dominum.

3:40  Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

3:41  Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.

3:41  Levemus corda nostra cum manibus ad Dominum in cælos.

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

3:42  Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.

3:42  Nos inique egimus, et ad iracundiam provocavimus ; idcirco tu inexorabilis es.

3:42  We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

3:43  Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.

3:43  Operuisti in furore, et percussisti nos ; occidisti, nec pepercisti.

3:43  Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

3:44  Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

3:44  Opposuisti nubem tibi, ne transeat oratio.

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

3:45  Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.

3:45  Eradicationem et abjectionem posuisti me in medio populorum.

3:45  Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

3:46  Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

3:46  Aperuerunt super nos os suum omnes inimici.

3:46  All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

3:47  Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.

3:47  Formido et laqueus facta est nobis vaticinatio, et contritio.

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

3:48  Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

3:48  Divisiones aquarum deduxit oculus meus, in contritione filiæ populi mei.

3:48  Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

3:49  Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:

3:49  Oculus meus afflictus est, nec tacuit, eo quod non esset requies.

3:49  Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

3:50  Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.

3:50  Donec respiceret et videret Dominus de cælis.

3:50  Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

3:51  Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

3:51  Oculus meus deprædatus est animam meam in cunctis filiabus urbis meæ.

3:51  Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

3:52  Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

3:52  Venatione ceperunt me quasi avem inimici mei gratis.

3:52  Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

3:53  Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.

3:53  Lapsa est in lacum vita mea, et posuerunt lapidem super me.

3:53  They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

3:54  Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

3:54  Inundaverunt aquæ super caput meum ; dixi : Perii.

3:54  Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

3:55  Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

3:55  Invocavi nomen tuum, Domine, de lacu novissimo.

3:55  I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

3:56  Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

3:56  Vocem meam audisti ; ne avertas aurem tuam a singultu meo et clamoribus.

3:56  Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

3:57  Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.

3:57  Appropinquasti in die quando invocavi te ; dixisti : Ne timeas.

3:57  Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

3:58  Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.

3:58  Judicasti, Domine, causam animæ meæ, redemptor vitæ meæ.

3:58  O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

3:59  Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.

3:59  Vidisti, Domine, iniquitatem illorum adversum me : judica judicium meum.

3:59  O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

3:60  Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.

3:60  Vidisti omnem furorem, universas cogitationes eorum adversum me.

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

3:61  Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.

3:61  Audisti opprobrium eorum, Domine, omnes cogitationes eorum adversum me.

3:61  Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

3:62  Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

3:62  Labia insurgentium mihi, et meditationes eorum adversum me tota die.

3:62  The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

3:63  Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.

3:63  Sessionem eorum et resurrectionem eorum vide ; ego sum psalmus eorum.

3:63  Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

3:64  Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

3:64  Redes eis vicem, Domine, juxta opera manuum suarum.

3:64  Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

3:65  Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.

3:65  Dabis eis scutum cordis, laborem tuum.

3:65  Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

3:66  Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

3:66  Persequeris in furore, et conteres eos sub cælis, Domine.

3:66  Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.