Lamentations 3
Wycliffe Bible
3 I am a man seeing my poverty in the rod of his indignation. (I am a man who seeth my poverty, I have felt the rod of his indignation, or of his anger.)
2 He drove me, and brought (me) into darknesses, and not into light.
3 Only he turned into me, and turned together his hand all day. (He turned only against me, and he turned his hand against me all day long.)
4 He made eld my skin, and my flesh; he all-brake my bones. (He made old, or wasted, my skin, and my flesh; he broke all my bones.)
5 He builded in my compass, and he compassed me with gall and travail. (He built all around me, yea, he surrounded me with gall and tribulation.)
6 He setted me in dark places, as everlasting dead men. (He put me in dark places, like the everlasting dead.)
7 He builded about against me, (so) that I go not out; he aggrieved my gyves (he made my chains heavy).
8 But and when I cry and pray, he hath excluded my prayer.
9 He closed together my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths. (He altogether enclosed my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths.)
10 He is made (like) a bear setting ambush to me, (like) a lion in hid places.
11 He destroyed my paths, and brake me; he setted me desolate (he left me desolate).
12 He bent his bow, and setted me as a sign to an arrow. (He bent his bow, and made me a target for his arrows.)
13 He sent in(to) my reins the daughters of his arrow case.
14 I am made into scorn to all the people (I am mocked by everyone), the song of them all day (long).
15 He filled me with bitternesses; he greatly filled me with wormwood.
16 He brake at number my teeth (He broke my teeth on gravel); he fed me with ashes.
17 And my soul is put away; I have forgotten goods. (And I have given up; I have forgotten the good things/I have forgotten whatever was good.)
18 And I said, Mine end perished, and mine hope, from the Lord. (And I said, My strength, and my hope in the Lord, have all perished.)
19 Have thou mind on my poverty, and going over, and on wormwood and gall. (Remember my poverty, and my goings about, yea, the wormwood and the gall.)
20 By mind I shall be mindful; and my soul shall fail in me. (Remember, O remember; even though my soul shall fail in me.)
21 I bethink these things in mine heart, I shall hope in God.
22 The mercies of the Lord be many, for we be not wasted; for why his merciful doings failed not.
23 I knew in the morrowtide; thy faith is much [much is thy faith]. (They be new in the morning; great is thy faithfulness.)
24 My soul said, The Lord is my part; therefore I shall abide him. (My soul said, The Lord is my portion; and so I shall wait for him.)
25 The Lord is good to them that hope into him, to a soul seeking him. (The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to someone seeking him.)
26 It is good to abide with stillness the health of God. (It is good to silently wait for the salvation of God./It is good to patiently wait for the deliverance of God.)
27 It is good to a man (It is good for a person), when he hath borne the yoke of his youth.
28 He shall sit alone, and he shall be still; for he raised himself above himself. (He shall sit alone, and he shall be silent/and he shall be patient; and he shall carry it by himself.)
29 He shall set his mouth in (the) dust, if peradventure hope is. (He shall put his face upon the ground, for perhaps there may still be hope.)
30 He shall give the cheek to a man that smiteth him; he shall be filled with shames. (He shall give his cheek to the one who striketh him; he shall be laden with abuse.)
31 For the Lord shall not put away [into] without end. (For the Lord shall not cast us away forever.)
32 For if he casted away, and he shall do mercy after the multitude of his mercies. (For even if he hath cast us away, he shall still do mercy after the multitude of his mercies.)
33 For he maked not low of his heart; and casted not away the sons of men. (For he did not make his heart low; and did not cast away the sons and daughters of men forever.)
34 That he should all-foul under his feet all the bound men of [the] earth. (So that he would all-foul all the bound, or all the imprisoned, on earth, under his feet.)
35 That he should bow down the doom of (a) man, in the sight of the cheer of the Highest. (So that he would deny someone justice, before the very face of the Most High.)
36 That he should pervert a man in his doom, the Lord knew not. (So that he would pervert a person in his judgement; nay, the Lord desireth none of this.)
37 Who is this that said (Who is this who said), that a thing should be done, when the Lord commandeth (it) not?
38 Neither goods neither evils shall go out of the mouth of the Highest. (Do not both good and evil go out from the mouth of the Most High?)
39 What grutched a man living, a man (punished) for his sins? (Why grumble a living man, when he is punished for his sins?)
40 Search we our ways, and seek we, and turn we again to the Lord. (Consider all that we do, and seek we the truth about it, and then turn we again to the Lord.)
41 Raise we our hearts with hands, to the Lord into heavens. (Raise we up our hearts with our hands, to the Lord in heaven.)
42 We have done wickedly, and have stirred thee to wrath; therefore thou art not able to be prayed (to).
43 Thou coveredest in strong vengeance, and smitedest us (and hast struck us); thou killedest (us), and sparedest (us) not.
44 Thou settedest a cloud to thee, that prayer pass not. (Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that prayers cannot pass through.)
45 Thou settedest me, drawing up by the root, and casting out, in the midst of [the] peoples. (Thou hast made us, as if drawn up by the root, and cast out, in the midst of the peoples.)
46 All [the] enemies opened their mouth on us. (All the enemies have opened their mouths against us.)
47 Inward dread and snare is made to us, prophecy and defouling. (Inward fear and snare be made upon us, and prophecy and defiling.)
48 Mine eyes led down partings of waters, for the defouling of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye was tormented, and was not still; for no rest was. (My eyes were tormented, and were not still; for there was no rest,)
50 Until the Lord beheld, and saw from heavens. (until the Lord beheld, and saw from heaven.)
51 Mine eye robbed my soul in all the daughters of my city. (My heart is grieved at what befell all the daughters of my city.)
52 Mine enemies took me without cause, by hunting (me) as a bird. (My enemies had no reason to be against me, yet they hunted me down like a bird.)
53 My life slid into a pit; and they putted a stone on me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head; I said, I perish.
55 Lord, I called to help thy name, from the last pit. (Lord, I called thy name for help, from the deepest pit/from the bottom of the pit.)
56 Thou heardest my voice; turn thou not away thine ear from my sobbing and cries.
57 Thou nighedest to me in the day, wherein I called thee to help; thou saidest, Dread thou not. (Thou came to me on the day, when I called to thee for help; thou saidest, Fear thou not.)
58 Lord, again-buyer of my life, thou deemedest the cause of my soul. (Lord, the Redeemer of my life, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul/thou hast pleaded my soul’s case.)
59 Lord, thou sawest the wickedness of them against me; deem thou my doom (judge thou my judgement/judge thou my justice).
60 Thou sawest all the strong vengeance, all the thoughts of them against me.
61 Lord, thou heardest the shames of them (Lord, thou heardest their abuse); all the thoughts of them against me.
62 The lips of men rising against me, and the thoughts of them against me all day (long).
63 See thou the sitting and (the) rising again of them; I am the psalm of them (I am their song of mocking).
64 Lord, thou shalt yield while to them, by the works of their hands. (Lord, thou shalt punish them, according to the works of their hands.)
65 Thou shalt give to them the shield of heart, thy travail. (Give thou them much sorrow of heart, and thy trials and tribulation.)
66 Lord, thou shalt pursue them in thy strong vengeance, and thou shalt defoul them under heavens (and thou shalt utterly defile them under the heavens).
耶利米哀歌 3
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
刑罰、悔改和盼望
3 我在耶和華烈怒的杖下受盡痛苦。
2 祂把我趕進黑暗，
使我不見光明，
3 又屢屢攻擊我，終日不斷。
4 祂使我皮肉枯槁，
祂折斷我的骨頭。
5 祂使我四面受困，
嚐盡痛苦艱辛。
6 祂使我住在幽暗中，
像久已死去的人。
7 祂圍困我，使我無法逃脫，
祂給我戴上沉重的銅鏈。
8 即使我哀哭呼求，
祂也掩耳不聽。
9 祂用鑿好的石頭阻擋我的去路，
使我的道路曲折難行。
10 祂像埋伏的巨熊，
又像伺機突襲的猛獅，
11 把我拖離大路，
將我撕成碎片，一片淒涼。
12 祂彎弓搭箭，把我當箭靶，
13 用箭袋中的箭射穿我的心臟。
14 我成了萬人的笑柄，
他們終日唱歌諷刺我。
15 祂使我飽受苦楚，嚐盡苦澀。
16 祂用石頭打斷我的牙齒，
把我踐踏在塵土中。
17 我失去平安，
忘記了什麼是快樂。
18 我說：「我精疲力竭，
對耶和華失去盼望。」
19 想起我的痛苦和漂泊流離，
就如苦艾和膽汁一樣苦澀。
20 那情景縈繞心頭，
使我心情沉重。
21 然而，我想起這事，
便有了盼望，
22 就是耶和華的慈愛永不終止，
祂的憐憫永無窮盡。
23 祂的慈愛和憐憫每天早晨都是新的，
祂的信實無比偉大！
24 我心裡知道，
耶和華是我的產業，
我要仰望祂。
25 耶和華必賜福給那些等候和尋求祂的人，
26 因此，默然等候耶和華的拯救是美好的。
27 年輕時負軛受苦是有益的。
28 受耶和華管教時，
要默然獨坐。
29 要謙卑，臉伏於地，
或許還有希望。
30 要任人打臉，甘心忍受凌辱。
31 因為主不會永遠撇棄人。
32 主儘管使人憂傷，
祂依然憐憫人，
因為祂有無限的慈愛。
33 祂不願使人憂傷、痛苦。
34 將囚犯踩在腳下，
35 在至高者面前冤枉他人，
36 審理案件時顛倒是非，
都是主所不容許的。
37 若非主許可，
誰的話可以兌現呢？
38 禍福豈不都出自至高者的口嗎？
39 世人因自己的罪受罰，
又何必怨天尤人呢？
40 我們要省察自己的行為，
重新歸向耶和華。
41 讓我們舉起雙手，
誠心向天上的上帝禱告說：
42 「我們犯罪、背叛，
你沒有赦免我們。
43 「你滿懷憤怒地追趕我們，
毫不留情地殺戮我們。
44 你以密雲遮蓋自己，
以致禱告達不到你那裡。
45 你使我們在列國中淪為廢物、渣滓。
46 「我們的仇敵都幸災樂禍。
47 我們充滿恐懼，
面臨陷阱、殘害和毀滅。」
48 因同胞被毀滅，我淚流成河。
49 我的眼淚湧流不息，
50 直到耶和華從天上垂顧。
51 目睹城中婦女的遭遇，
我痛苦不已。
52 敵人無故地追捕我，
如同捕獵飛鳥。
53 他們把我推進坑裡，
又用石頭砸我。
54 水已經漫過我的頭，
我想我要滅亡了。
55 耶和華啊，
我在深淵呼求你的名。
56 你曾垂聽我的呼求，
求你現在不要掩耳不聽我的祈禱。
57 我向你呼求的時候，
你曾走近我身旁，
安慰我說：「不用害怕！」
58 主啊，你為我申了冤，
救贖了我的性命。
59 耶和華啊，你已明察我的冤情，
求你為我主持公道。
60 你看見了他們怎樣仇恨我、
謀害我。
61 你聽見了他們怎樣辱罵我、
謀害我。
62 他們整天誹謗我，圖謀害我。
63 你看！他們或坐下或起來，
都唱歌諷刺我。
64 耶和華啊，
求你按照他們的所作所為報應他們！
65 求你使他們心裡頑固，
好讓你的咒詛落在他們身上！
66 求你發怒追趕他們，
從世上剷除他們！
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