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Lamentaciones 3
Reina Valera Revisada
Lamentaciones 3
Reina Valera Revisada
Esperanza de liberación por la misericordia de Jehová
3 Yo soy el hombre que ha visto aflicción bajo el látigo de su enojo.
2 Me guió y me hizo caminar en tinieblas, y no en luz;
3 Sí, contra mí volvió y revolvió su mano todo el día.
4 Hizo envejecer mi carne y mi piel; quebrantó mis huesos;
5 Edificó baluartes contra mí, y me rodeó de amargura y de fatiga.
6 Me dejó en oscuridad, como los ya muertos de mucho tiempo.
7 Me cercó por todos lados, y no puedo salir; ha hecho pesadas mis cadenas;
8 Aun cuando grito y pido auxilio, cierra los oídos a mi oración;
9 Cercó mis caminos con piedras sillares, torció mis senderos.
10 Fue para mí como oso que acecha, como león en escondrijo;
11 Torció mis caminos, y me despedazó; me ha dejado hecho un horror.
12 Entesó su arco, y me puso como blanco de sus saetas.
13 Hizo entrar en mis riñones las saetas de su aljaba.
14 He venido a ser la irrisión de todo mi pueblo, su cantinela de todos los días;
15 Me llenó de amarguras, me embriagó de ajenjos.
16 Mis dientes quebró con guijarro, me cubrió de ceniza;
17 Y mi alma se alejó de la paz, me olvidé de la felicidad,
18 Y dije: Perecieron mis fuerzas, y mi esperanza en Jehová.
19 Acuérdate de mi miseria y de mi vida errante, del ajenjo y del veneno;
20 Mi alma lo recuerda todavía, y está abatida dentro de mí;
21 Esto es lo que medito en mi corazón, y por lo que espero.
22 Las gracias de Jehová no se han acabado, sus misericordias no se han agotado.
23 Nuevas son cada mañana; grande es tu fidelidad.
24 Mi porción es Jehová, dice mi alma; por eso espero en él.
25 Bueno es Jehová para los que en él esperan, para el alma que le busca.
26 Bueno es esperar en silencio la salvación de Jehová.
27 Bueno le es al hombre llevar el yugo desde su juventud.
28 Que se siente solo y calle, porque es él quien se lo impuso;
29 Ponga su boca en el polvo, por si aún hay esperanza;
30 Dé la mejilla al que le hiere, y sea colmado de afrentas.
31 Porque el Señor no desecha para siempre;
32 Si aflige, también se compadece según la multitud de sus misericordias;
33 Porque no humilla ni aflige por gusto a los hijos de los hombres.
34 Cuando se desmenuza bajo los pies a todos los encarcelados del país,
35 Cuando se tuerce el derecho del hombre delante de la presencia del Altísimo,
36 Cuando se hace entuerto al hombre en su causa, ¿el Señor no lo ve?
37 ¿Quién será aquel que haya hablado y las cosas sucedieron? ¿No es el Señor el que decide?
38 ¿De la boca del Altísimo no sale lo malo y lo bueno?
39 ¿Por qué se lamenta el hombre? ¡Que sea un valiente contra sus pecados!
40 Escudriñemos nuestros caminos, y examinémoslos, y volvámonos a Jehová;
41 Levantemos nuestros corazones sobre nuestras manos al Dios que está en los cielos;
42 Nosotros nos hemos rebelado, y fuimos desleales; tú no has perdonado.
43 Te has cubierto de ira y nos has perseguido; mataste sin piedad;
44 Te cubriste de nube para que no pasase nuestra oración;
45 Nos has hecho basura y desecho en medio de los pueblos.
46 Todos nuestros enemigos abren contra nosotros su boca;
47 Terror y fosa es nuestra porción, desolación y ruina;
48 Ríos de aguas echan mis ojos por el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo.
49 Mis ojos destilan y no cesan; ya no hay alivio
50 Hasta que Jehová mire y vea desde los cielos;
51 Mis ojos atormentan a mi alma por todas las hijas de mi ciudad.
52 Mis enemigos me dieron caza como a ave, sin haber por qué;
53 Sofocaron mi vida en una cisterna, y echaron piedras sobre mí;
54 Las aguas cubrieron mi cabeza; y dije: Estoy perdido.
55 Invoqué tu nombre, oh Jehová, desde lo profundo de la fosa;
56 Oíste mi grito; no cierres tu oído a mi grito de socorro.
57 Te acercaste el día que te invoqué; y dijiste: No temas.
58 Abogaste, Señor, la causa de mi alma; redimiste mi vida.
59 Tú has visto, oh Jehová, mi agravio; defiende mi causa.
60 Has visto toda su venganza, todos sus planes contra mí.
61 Has oído sus insultos, oh Jehová, todas sus maquinaciones contra mí;
62 Los dichos de los que contra mí se levantaron, y sus tramas contra mí todo el día.
63 Su sentarse y su levantarse mira; yo soy su copla.
64 Dales el pago, oh Jehová, según la obra de sus manos.
65 Entrégalos al endurecimiento de corazón; tu maldición caiga sobre ellos.
66 Persíguelos en tu furor, y extermínalos de debajo de los cielos, oh Jehová.
Lamentations 3
World English Bible
Lamentations 3
World English Bible
3 I am the man who has seen affliction
by the rod of his wrath.
2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,
and not in light.
3 Surely he turns his hand against me
again and again all day long.
4 He has made my flesh and my skin old.
He has broken my bones.
5 He has built against me,
and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 He has made me dwell in dark places,
as those who have been long dead.
7 He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.
He has made my chain heavy.
8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help,
he shuts out my prayer.
9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
He has made my paths crooked.
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
as a lion in hiding.
11 He has turned away my path,
and pulled me in pieces.
He has made me desolate.
12 He has bent his bow,
and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
14 I have become a derision to all my people,
and their song all day long.
15 He has filled me with bitterness.
He has stuffed me with wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
He has covered me with ashes.
17 You have removed my soul far away from peace.
I forgot prosperity.
18 I said, “My strength has perished,
along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
19 Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the bitterness.
20 My soul still remembers them,
and is bowed down within me.
21 This I recall to my mind;
therefore I have hope.
22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his mercies don’t fail.
23 They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.
24 “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul.
“Therefore I will hope in him.”
25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
26 It is good that a man should hope
and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 Let him sit alone and keep silence,
because he has laid it on him.
29 Let him put his mouth in the dust,
if it is so that there may be hope.
30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
Let him be filled full of reproach.
31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32 For though he causes grief,
yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
33 For he does not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men.
34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
when the Lord doesn’t command it?
38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
39 Why should a living man complain,
a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to Yahweh.
41 Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God[a] in the heavens.
42 “We have transgressed and have rebelled.
You have not pardoned.
43 “You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
You have killed.
You have not pitied.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud,
so that no prayer can pass through.
45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
in the middle of the peoples.
46 “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
47 Terror and the pit have come on us,
devastation and destruction.”
48 My eye runs down with streams of water,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 My eye pours down
and doesn’t cease,
without any intermission,
50 until Yahweh looks down,
and sees from heaven.
51 My eye affects my soul,
because of all the daughters of my city.
52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
those who are my enemies without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
and have cast a stone on me.
54 Waters flowed over my head.
I said, “I am cut off.”
55 I called on your name, Yahweh,
out of the lowest dungeon.
56 You heard my voice:
“Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
and my cry.”
57 You came near in the day that I called on you.
You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
You have redeemed my life.
59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.
Judge my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance
and all their plans against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,
and all their plans against me,
62 the lips of those that rose up against me,
and their plots against me all day long.
63 You see their sitting down and their rising up.
I am their song.
64 You will pay them back, Yahweh,
according to the work of their hands.
65 You will give them hardness of heart,
your curse to them.
66 You will pursue them in anger,
and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
Footnotes
- 3:41 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
Lamentations 3
New International Version
Lamentations 3
New International Version
3 [a]I am the man who has seen affliction(A)
by the rod of the Lord’s wrath.(B)
2 He has driven me away and made me walk
in darkness(C) rather than light;
3 indeed, he has turned his hand against me(D)
again and again, all day long.
4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old(E)
and has broken my bones.(F)
5 He has besieged me and surrounded me
with bitterness(G) and hardship.(H)
6 He has made me dwell in darkness
like those long dead.(I)
7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape;(J)
he has weighed me down with chains.(K)
8 Even when I call out or cry for help,(L)
he shuts out my prayer.(M)
9 He has barred(N) my way with blocks of stone;
he has made my paths crooked.(O)
10 Like a bear lying in wait,
like a lion(P) in hiding,(Q)
11 he dragged me from the path and mangled(R) me
and left me without help.
12 He drew his bow(S)
and made me the target(T) for his arrows.(U)
13 He pierced(V) my heart
with arrows from his quiver.(W)
14 I became the laughingstock(X) of all my people;(Y)
they mock me in song(Z) all day long.
15 He has filled me with bitter herbs
and given me gall to drink.(AA)
16 He has broken my teeth with gravel;(AB)
he has trampled me in the dust.(AC)
17 I have been deprived of peace;
I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 So I say, “My splendor is gone
and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”(AD)
19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness(AE) and the gall.(AF)
20 I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast(AG) within me.(AH)
21 Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
22 Because of the Lord’s great love(AI) we are not consumed,(AJ)
for his compassions never fail.(AK)
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.(AL)
24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;(AM)
therefore I will wait for him.”
25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;(AN)
26 it is good to wait quietly(AO)
for the salvation of the Lord.(AP)
27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.
28 Let him sit alone in silence,(AQ)
for the Lord has laid it on him.
29 Let him bury his face in the dust(AR)—
there may yet be hope.(AS)
30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him,(AT)
and let him be filled with disgrace.(AU)
31 For no one is cast off
by the Lord forever.(AV)
32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion,
so great is his unfailing love.(AW)
33 For he does not willingly bring affliction
or grief to anyone.(AX)
34 To crush underfoot
all prisoners in the land,
35 to deny people their rights
before the Most High,(AY)
36 to deprive them of justice—
would not the Lord see such things?(AZ)
37 Who can speak and have it happen
if the Lord has not decreed it?(BA)
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that both calamities and good things come?(BB)
39 Why should the living complain
when punished for their sins?(BC)
40 Let us examine our ways and test them,(BD)
and let us return to the Lord.(BE)
41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands
to God in heaven,(BF) and say:
42 “We have sinned and rebelled(BG)
and you have not forgiven.(BH)
43 “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued(BI) us;
you have slain without pity.(BJ)
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud(BK)
so that no prayer(BL) can get through.(BM)
45 You have made us scum(BN) and refuse
among the nations.
46 “All our enemies have opened their mouths
wide(BO) against us.(BP)
47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls,(BQ)
ruin and destruction.(BR)”
48 Streams of tears(BS) flow from my eyes(BT)
because my people are destroyed.(BU)
49 My eyes will flow unceasingly,
without relief,(BV)
50 until the Lord looks down
from heaven and sees.(BW)
51 What I see brings grief to my soul
because of all the women of my city.
52 Those who were my enemies without cause
hunted me like a bird.(BX)
53 They tried to end my life in a pit(BY)
and threw stones at me;
54 the waters closed over my head,(BZ)
and I thought I was about to perish.(CA)
55 I called on your name, Lord,
from the depths(CB) of the pit.(CC)
56 You heard my plea:(CD) “Do not close your ears
to my cry for relief.”
57 You came near(CE) when I called you,
and you said, “Do not fear.”(CF)
58 You, Lord, took up my case;(CG)
you redeemed my life.(CH)
59 Lord, you have seen the wrong done to me.(CI)
Uphold my cause!(CJ)
60 You have seen the depth of their vengeance,
all their plots against me.(CK)
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem; the verses of each stanza begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and the verses within each stanza begin with the same letter.
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