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Lamentaciones 3
Nueva Versión Internacional
Lamentaciones 3
Nueva Versión Internacional
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[a]3 Yo soy aquel que ha sufrido la aflicción
bajo la vara de su ira.
2 Me ha hecho andar en las tinieblas
y no en la luz.
3 Todo el día, una y otra vez,
su mano se ha vuelto contra mí.
Bet
4 Ha hecho que mi carne y mi piel envejezcan;
me ha quebrantado los huesos.
5 Me ha tendido un cerco
de amargura y tribulaciones.
6 Me obliga a vivir en las tinieblas,
como a los que hace tiempo murieron.
Guímel
7 Me tiene encerrado, no puedo escapar;
me ha puesto pesadas cadenas.
8 Por más que grito y pido ayuda,
él rechaza mi oración.
9 Cerró mi camino con bloques de piedra;
ha torcido mis senderos.
Dálet
10 Me acecha como oso,
como león escondido.
11 Me aparta del camino para despedazarme;
¡me deja sin ayuda!
12 Con el arco tenso,
me ha hecho blanco de sus flechas.
He
13 Me ha partido el corazón
con las flechas de su aljaba.
14 Soy el motivo de risa de todo mi pueblo;
todo el día me cantan parodias.
15 Me ha llenado de amargura,
me ha hecho beber hiel.
Vav
16 Con piedras me ha quebrado los dientes;
me ha hecho morder el polvo.
17 Me ha quitado la paz;
ya no recuerdo lo que es la dicha.
18 Y digo: «Me he quedado sin fuerzas
y sin esperanza en el Señor».
Zayin
19 Recuerda que estoy afligido y ando errante,
que estoy saturado de hiel y amargura.
20 Recuerdo esto bien
y por eso me deprimo.
21 Pero algo más me viene a la memoria,
lo cual me llena de esperanza:
Jet
22 Por el gran amor del Señor no hemos sido consumidos[b]
y su compasión jamás se agota.
23 Cada mañana se renuevan sus bondades;
¡muy grande es su fidelidad!
24 Me digo a mí mismo:
«El Señor es mi herencia.
¡En él esperaré!».
Tet
25 Bueno es el Señor con quienes esperan en él,
con todos los que lo buscan.
26 Bueno es esperar calladamente
la salvación del Señor.
27 Bueno es que el hombre aprenda
a llevar el yugo desde su juventud.
Yod
28 ¡Déjenlo estar solo y en silencio,
porque el Señor se lo ha impuesto!
29 ¡Que hunda el rostro en el polvo!
¡Tal vez haya esperanza todavía!
30 ¡Que dé la otra mejilla a quien lo hiera,
y quede así cubierto de deshonra!
Caf
31 El Señor nos ha rechazado,
pero no será para siempre.
32 Nos hace sufrir, pero también muestra compasión,
porque es muy grande su amor.
33 El Señor nos hiere y nos aflige,
pero no porque sea de su agrado.
Lámed
34 Cuando se aplasta bajo el pie
a todos los prisioneros de la tierra,
35 cuando en presencia del Altísimo
se le niegan al pueblo sus derechos
36 y no se hace justicia,
¿el Señor no se da cuenta?
Mem
37 ¿Quién puede anunciar algo y hacerlo realidad
sin que el Señor dé la orden?
38 ¿No es acaso por la boca del Altísimo
que acontece lo bueno y lo malo?
39 ¿Por qué habría de quejarse en vida
quien es castigado por sus pecados?
Nun
40 Examinemos y pongamos a prueba nuestras conductas
y volvamos al Señor.
41 Elevemos al Dios de los cielos
nuestro corazón y nuestras manos.
42 Hemos pecado, hemos sido rebeldes
y tú no nos has perdonado.
Sámej
43 Te cubriste de ira y nos persigues;
nos matas sin piedad.
44 Te cubriste con una nube
para no escuchar nuestra oración.
45 Como a escoria despreciable
nos has arrojado entre las naciones.
Pe
46 Todos nuestros enemigos abren la boca
para hablar mal de nosotros.
47 Hemos sufrido terrores y trampas,
ruina y destrucción.
48 Ríos de lágrimas corren por mis mejillas
porque ha sido destruida la hija de mi pueblo.
Ayin
49 Se inundarán en llanto mis ojos,
sin cesar y sin consuelo,
50 hasta que el Señor
contemple desde el cielo y vea.
51 Me duele en lo más profundo del alma
ver sufrir a las mujeres de mi ciudad.
Tsade
52 Mis enemigos me persiguen sin razón,
y quieren atraparme como a un ave.
53 Me quieren enterrar vivo
y me tiraron piedras.
54 Las aguas me han cubierto la cabeza;
tal parece que me ha llegado el fin.
Qof
55 Desde lo más profundo de la fosa
invoqué, Señor, tu nombre,
56 y tú escuchaste mi plegaria:
«No cierres tus oídos a mi clamor de alivio».
57 Te invoqué, y viniste a mí;
«No temas», me dijiste.
Resh
58 Tú, Señor, te pusiste de mi parte;
tú redimiste mi vida.
59 Tú, Señor, viste el mal que me causaron;
¡hazme justicia!
60 Tú notaste su sed de venganza
y todas sus maquinaciones en mi contra.
Shin
61 Señor, tú has escuchado sus insultos
y todos sus planes en mi contra;
62 tú sabes que todo el día mis enemigos
murmuran y se confabulan contra mí.
63 ¡Míralos! Hagan lo que hagan,[c]
se burlan de mí en sus canciones.
Tav
64 ¡Dales, Señor, su merecido
por todo lo que han hecho!
65 Pon un velo sobre sus corazones,
¡y caiga sobre ellos tu maldición!
66 Persíguelos, Señor, en tu enojo,
y bórralos de debajo de tus cielos.
Lamentations 3
New King James Version
Lamentations 3
New King James Version
The Prophet’s Anguish and Hope
3 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
2 He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
3 Surely He has turned His hand against me
Time and time again throughout the day.
4 He has aged (A)my flesh and my skin,
And (B)broken my bones.
5 He has besieged me
And surrounded me with bitterness and [a]woe.
6 (C)He has set me in dark places
Like the dead of long ago.
7 (D)He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
8 Even (E)when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.
9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
10 (F)He has been to me a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in [b]ambush.
11 He has turned aside my ways and (G)torn me in pieces;
He has made me desolate.
12 He has bent His bow
And (H)set me up as a target for the arrow.
13 He has caused (I)the [c]arrows of His quiver
To pierce my [d]loins.
14 I have become the (J)ridicule of all my people—
(K)Their taunting song all the day.
15 (L)He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth (M)with gravel,
And [e]covered me with ashes.
17 You have moved my soul far from peace;
I have forgotten [f]prosperity.
18 (N)And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the Lord.”
19 Remember my affliction and roaming,
(O)The wormwood and the [g]gall.
20 My soul still remembers
And [h]sinks within me.
21 This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have (P)hope.
22 (Q)Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions (R)fail not.
23 They are new (S)every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
24 “The Lord is my (T)portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I (U)hope in Him!”
25 The Lord is good to those who (V)wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.
26 It is good that one should (W)hope (X)and wait quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.
27 (Y)It is good for a man to bear
The yoke in his youth.
28 (Z)Let him sit alone and keep silent,
Because God has laid it on him;
29 (AA)Let him put his mouth in the dust—
There may yet be hope.
30 (AB)Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him,
And be full of reproach.
31 (AC)For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32 Though He causes grief,
Yet He will show compassion
According to the multitude of His mercies.
33 For (AD)He does not afflict [i]willingly,
Nor grieve the children of men.
34 To crush under one’s feet
All the prisoners of the earth,
35 To turn aside the justice due a man
Before the face of the Most High,
36 Or subvert a man in his cause—
(AE)The Lord does not approve.
37 Who is he (AF)who speaks and it comes to pass,
When the Lord has not commanded it?
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That (AG)woe and well-being proceed?
39 (AH)Why should a living man [j]complain,
(AI)A man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the Lord;
41 (AJ)Let us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.
42 (AK)We have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.
43 You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and not pitied.
44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
That prayer should not pass through.
45 You have made us an (AL)offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.
46 (AM)All our enemies
Have opened their mouths against us.
47 (AN)Fear and a snare have come upon us,
(AO)Desolation and destruction.
48 (AP)My eyes overflow with rivers of water
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 (AQ)My eyes flow and do not cease,
Without interruption,
50 Till the Lord from heaven
(AR)Looks down and sees.
51 My eyes bring suffering to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
52 My enemies (AS)without cause
Hunted me down like a bird.
53 They [k]silenced my life (AT)in the pit
And (AU)threw [l]stones at me.
54 (AV)The waters flowed over my head;
(AW)I said, “I am cut off!”
55 (AX)I called on Your name, O Lord,
From the lowest (AY)pit.
56 (AZ)You have heard my voice:
“Do not hide Your ear
From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
57 You (BA)drew near on the day I called on You,
And said, (BB)“Do not fear!”
58 O Lord, You have (BC)pleaded the case for my soul;
(BD)You have redeemed my life.
59 O Lord, You have seen [m]how I am wronged;
(BE)Judge my case.
60 You have seen all their vengeance,
All their (BF)schemes against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
All their schemes against me,
62 The lips of my enemies
And their whispering against me all the day.
63 Look at their (BG)sitting down and their rising up;
I am their taunting song.
64 (BH)Repay them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.
65 Give them [n]a veiled heart;
Your curse be upon them!
66 In Your anger,
Pursue and destroy them
(BI)From under the heavens of the (BJ)Lord.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:5 hardship or weariness
- Lamentations 3:10 Lit. secret places
- Lamentations 3:13 Lit. sons of
- Lamentations 3:13 Lit. kidneys
- Lamentations 3:16 Lit. bent me down in
- Lamentations 3:17 Lit. good
- Lamentations 3:19 bitterness
- Lamentations 3:20 Lit. bowed down
- Lamentations 3:33 Lit. from His heart
- Lamentations 3:39 Or murmur
- Lamentations 3:53 LXX put to death
- Lamentations 3:53 Lit. a stone on
- Lamentations 3:59 Lit. my wrong
- Lamentations 3:65 A Jewish tradition sorrow of
Lamentations 3
King James Version
Lamentations 3
King James Version
3 I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.
50 Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
59 O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
64 Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.
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