Lamentations 3
3:1I am a man, one seeing poorness by a rod of his rage upon me.
3:2He took me; he led me away into darkness, and not light.
3:3Only against me he turned his hand the entire day.
3:4He aged my flesh and my skin; he broke my bones.
3:5He built against me, and he encircled my head, and troubled me.
3:6In dark places he settled me as dead ones of the eon.
3:7He built against me, and I shall not come forth. He weighed down my brass chain.
3:8Yes indeed, for though I shall cry out and yell, he shut out my prayer.
3:9He blocked up my ways; he obstructed my roads; he disturbed me.
3:10He is a bear lying in wait for me, as a lion in a secret place.
3:11He pursued me after I revolted, and caused me to cease. He established me for being obliterated.
3:12He stretched tight his bow, and he set up a stone target for me as the aim for the arrow.
3:13He brought the poison from his quivers into my kidneys.
3:14I became laughter to all my people, their psalm for the entire day.
3:15He filled me with bitterness; he intoxicated me with bile,
3:16and he knocked out my teeth by a small stone; he fed me ashes,
3:17and he thrust away my soul from peace. I forgot good things.
3:18And I said, My victory perished, and my hope from the lord.
3:19I remembered because of my poorness, and of my persecution, of my bitterness, and of my bile.
3:20I shall be remembered, and my soul shall converse with me.
3:21This I will arrange into my heart; on account of this I will wait.
3:22The mercies of the lord, for they finished not, for his charities failed not.
3:23The ones new in the morning; great is your trust.
3:24The lord is my portion, said my soul, on account of this I will wait for him.
3:25The lord is good to the ones waiting on him, the soul which shall seek him.
3:26It is good, and he shall wait and shall be still for the deliverance of the lord.
3:27It is good for a man whenever he should lift a yoke from his youth.
3:28He will sit down alone, and will keep silent, for he lifted it upon himself.
3:29He shall put his mouth in dust; if perhaps there is hope.
3:30He will give his cheek to the one hitting him. He will be filled of scornings.
3:31For not into the eon shall the lord thrust away.
3:32For the one he humbled he shall pity, according to the multitude of his mercy.
3:33He was not answered from his heart, and he humbled sons of man,
3:34to humble under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
3:35to turn aside a judgment of a man over against the face of the highest,
3:36to condemn mankind in judging him, the lord did not say it.
3:37Who thus spoke, and it came to pass, but the lord did not give charge?
3:38From out of the mouth of the highest shall not come forth bad and good?
3:39Why does a living man grumble; a man concerning his sin?
3:40Our way was searched out and examined, and we should turn unto the lord.
3:41We should lift up our hearts with our hands to the height in heaven.
3:42We sinned, we were impious, and you atoned not.
3:43You enveloped in rage, and banished us. You killed and spared not.
3:44You enveloped yourself with a cloud because of prayer to close my eyelids.
3:45And to be thrust away you put us in the midst of the peoples.
3:46All our enemies opened wide their mouth against us.
3:47Fear and stupefaction was to us; haughtiness and destruction.
3:48My eye shall lead down releases of waters upon the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3:49My eye was swallowed down and I shall not be quiet, to not be sober,
3:50until of which time the lord should look through and should behold from out of heaven.
3:51My eye shall glean upon my soul because of all the daughters of the city.
3:52In hunting my enemies hunted me as a sparrow freely.
3:53They put to death my life in the pit, and they placed a stone upon me.
3:54Water overflowed upon my head. I said, I am thrust away.
3:55I called upon your name, O lord, from out of the lowermost pit.
3:56My voice you heard; you should not hide your ears to my supplication.
3:57You approached for my help in the day in which I called upon you. You said to me, Do not fear!
3:58You adjudicated, O lord, the punishments of my soul. You ransomed my life.
3:59You saw, O lord, my disturbances. You judged my case.
3:60You beheld all their vengeance, and all their devices against me.
3:61You heard their scorning, all their devices against me;
3:62the lips of ones rising up against me, and their meditations against me the entire day;
3:63their sitting down, and their rising up. Look upon their eyes!
3:64You shall recompense to them a recompense, O lord, according to the works of their hands.
3:65You shall recompense to them, while shielding the trouble of my heart.
3:66You shall pursue them in anger, and shall completely consume them beneath the heaven, O lord.