3Lamentations 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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