Lamentations Capítulo 3

3 : 1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

3 : 2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

3 : 3 Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.

3 : 4 He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

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

3 : 6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead.

3 : 7 He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.

3 : 8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

3 : 9 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.

3 : 10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed 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 shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

3 : 14 I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

3 : 15 He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.

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

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

3 : 18 And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Jehovah.

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

3 : 20 My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

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

3 : 22 It is of Jehovah's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.

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

3 : 24 Jehovah is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.

3 : 25 Jehovah is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

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

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

3 : 28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him.

3 : 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

3 : 30 Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.

3 : 31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.

3 : 32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

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

3 : 34 To crush under foot 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 does not approve.

3 : 37 Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?

3 : 38 Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come 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 Jehovah.

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

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

3 : 43 Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.

3 : 44 Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

3 : 45 Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

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

3 : 47 Fear and the pit have come upon us, devastation and destruction.

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

3 : 49 My eye pours down, and does not cease, without any intermission,

3 : 50 till Jehovah looks down, and beholds from heaven.

3 : 51 My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

3 : 52 They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

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

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

3 : 55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

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

3 : 57 Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not.

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

3 : 59 O Jehovah, thou have seen my wrong. Judge thou my cause.

3 : 60 Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

3 : 61 Thou have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,

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

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

3 : 64 Thou will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

3 : 65 Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.

3 : 66 Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.