Lamentations Capítulo 3

3 : 1 I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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

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

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

3 : 5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

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

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

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

3 : 9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3 : 17 And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3 : 25 The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

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

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

3 : 28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3 : 36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not.

3 : 37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?

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

3 : 39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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

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

3 : 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.

3 : 43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.

3 : 44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

3 : 45 You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people.

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

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

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

3 : 49 My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.

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

3 : 51 My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

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

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

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

3 : 55 I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

3 : 56 You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

3 : 57 You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not.

3 : 58 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

3 : 59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.

3 : 60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

3 : 61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

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

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

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

3 : 65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them.

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