Lamentations 3:1-18
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.)
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Lamentations 3:1-18
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)
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.
2001 by Terence P. Noble
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