Lamentations 3:19-66
Legacy Standard Bible
The Lord Will Not Reject Forever
Zayin
19 Remember my affliction and my [a]homelessness, the (A)wormwood and gall.
20 Surely (B)my soul remembers
And is (C)bowed down within me.
21 This I will return to my heart;
Therefore I will (D)wait in hope.
Heth
22 The (E)lovingkindnesses of Yahweh [b]indeed never cease,
(F)For His compassions never fail.
23 They are new (G)every morning;
Great is (H)Your faithfulness.
24 “Yahweh is my (I)portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I (J)wait for Him.”
Teth
25 Yahweh is good to those who (K)hope in Him,
To the soul who (L)seeks Him.
26 It is good that he (M)waits silently
For the salvation of Yahweh.
27 It is good for a man that he should bear
The yoke in his youth.
Yodh
28 Let him (N)sit alone and be silent
Since He has laid it on him.
29 Let him [c]put his mouth in the (O)dust;
Perhaps there is (P)hope.
30 Let him give his (Q)cheek to the one who strikes him;
Let him be saturated with reproach.
Kaph
31 For the Lord will (R)not reject forever,
32 For if He causes grief,
Then He will have (S)compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness.
33 For He (T)does not afflict from His heart
Or grieve the sons of men.
Lamedh
34 To crush under His feet
All the prisoners of the [d]land,
35 To [e]deprive a man of (U)justice
In the presence of the Most High,
36 To [f](V)defraud a man in his legal case—
These things the Lord does not see with approval.
Mem
37 Who is [g]there who speaks and it (W)happens,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That (X)both calamities and [h]good go forth?
39 Why should any living [i]person or any man
(Y)Complain because of his sins?
Nun
40 Let us (Z)search out and examine our ways,
And let us return to Yahweh.
41 We (AA)lift up our heart to our hands
Toward God in heaven;
42 We have (AB)transgressed and rebelled;
You have (AC)not pardoned.
Samekh
43 You have covered Yourself with (AD)anger
And (AE)pursued us;
You have killed and (AF)have not spared.
44 You have (AG)covered Yourself with a cloud
So that (AH)no prayer can pass through.
45 You have made us mere (AI)scum and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.
Pe
46 All our enemies have (AJ)opened their mouths against us.
47 (AK)Panic and pitfall have befallen us,
Devastation and destruction;
48 My [j](AL)eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ayin
49 My eyes pour down (AM)unceasingly,
Without stopping,
50 Until Yahweh (AN)looks down
And sees from heaven.
51 My eyes deal severely with my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Tsadhe
52 My enemies (AO)without cause
Hunted me down (AP)like a bird;
53 They have silenced my life (AQ)in the pit
And have [k](AR)placed a stone on me.
54 Waters flowed (AS)over my head;
I said, “I am cut off!”
Qoph
55 I (AT)called on Your name, O Yahweh,
Out of the lowest pit.
56 You have (AU)heard my voice,
“(AV)Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”
57 You (AW)drew near when I called on You;
You said, “(AX)Do not fear!”
Resh
58 O Lord, You (AY)have pleaded my soul’s cause;
You have (AZ)redeemed my life.
59 O Yahweh, You have (BA)seen my oppression;
(BB)Judge my case.
60 You have seen all their vengeance,
All their (BC)purposes against me.
Sin/ Shin
61 You have heard their (BD)reproach, O Yahweh,
All their purposes against me.
62 The (BE)lips of those who rise against me and their whispering
Are against me all day long.
63 Look on their (BF)sitting and their rising;
(BG)I am their mocking song.
Tav
64 You will (BH)recompense them, O Yahweh,
According to the work of their hands.
65 You will give them [l](BI)dullness of heart;
Your curse will be on them.
66 You will (BJ)pursue them in anger and destroy them
From under the (BK)heavens of Yahweh!
Notas al pie
- Lamentations 3:19 Or bitterness
- Lamentations 3:22 Or that we are not consumed
- Lamentations 3:29 Lit give
- Lamentations 3:34 Or earth
- Lamentations 3:35 Or turn aside a man’s case
- Lamentations 3:36 Lit make crooked
- Lamentations 3:37 Lit this
- Lamentations 3:38 Lit the good
- Lamentations 3:39 Or human being
- Lamentations 3:48 Lit eye brings
- Lamentations 3:53 Or cast stones
- Lamentations 3:65 Or insolence
Lamentations 3:19-66
International Standard Version
19 Remember my affliction and homelessness—
wormwood and gall!
20 My mind keeps reflecting on it,
and I become depressed.[a]
21 This is what comes to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
22 Because of the Lord’s gracious love we are not consumed,
since his compassions never end.
23 They are new every morning—
great is your faithfulness!
24 “The Lord is all I have,”[b] says my soul,
“Therefore I will trust in him.”
25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
to the person who searches for him.
26 It is good to hope and wait patiently
for the Lord’s salvation.
27 It is good when a young man carries the yoke
of discipline[c] in his youth.
28 He is to sit apart and remain silent,
because the Lord[d] has laid it upon him.
29 Let him fall face down in the dust,
so there may yet be hope.
30 He will endure being slapped in the face,
bringing him public disgrace.
31 Indeed, the Lord will not always
reject us[e]—
32 though he causes grief,
his compassion abounds according to his gracious love.
33 For he does not deliberately hurt
or grieve human beings.
34 When any of the prisoners of the earth
are crushed underfoot,
35 when a person’s rights are perverted
in defiance of the Most High.
36 When a man is thwarted in his appeal,
does the Lord condone[f] it?
37 Who can command, and it happens,
without the Lord having ordered it?
38 Do not both good and evil things proceed
from the mouth of the Most High?
39 Why should anyone living complain,
any mortal, about being punished for sin?
40 Let us examine our lifestyles,
putting them to the test,
and turn back to the Lord.
41 Let us lift up our hearts
and our hands
to God in heaven.
42 As for us, we have sinned and rebelled;
but you have not pardoned us.[g]
43 Clothing yourself with anger, you pursued us.
You killed without pity,
44 You covered yourself with a cloud
that prayer cannot pierce.
45 You have reduced us to scum and garbage
among the nations.
46 All our enemies
jeer at us with gaping mouths.
47 Panic and pitfalls beset us,
along with devastation and ruin.
48 My eyes run with rivers of tears
over the destruction of my cherished[h] people.
49 My tears pour[i] down ceaselessly;
I am far from relief
50 until the Lord bends down
to see from heaven.
51 What I see[j] grieves my soul
because of all the young women[k] of my city.
52 My enemies hunted me like a bird,
viciously and without justification.
53 They dumped me alive into a pit,
sealing me in with stone.[l]
54 Water closed over my head,
and I said, “I’m a dead man.”[m]
55 I called on your name, Lord,
from the depths of the Pit,[n]
56 You heard my voice—
don’t close your ear to my sighs and cries.[o]
57 You drew near when I called out to you.
You said, “Stop being afraid”
58 Lord, you have defended my cause;
you have redeemed my life.
59 Lord, you observed how I have been wronged;
now make your ruling in my case.
60 You examined their plans for vengeance,
all of their plots against me.
61 Lord, you listened to their insults—
all their plots against me,
62 the whisperings of my opponents,
their scheming against me all day long.
63 Watch! Whether they sit down or stand up,
they mock me with their songs.
64 Pay them back, Lord,
according to their actions.
65 Give them an anguished heart;
may your curse be upon them!
66 Pursue them in your anger
and destroy them from under the Lord’s heaven.
Notas al pie
- Lamentations 3:20 Lit. and sinks within me
- Lamentations 3:24 Lit. is my portion
- Lamentations 3:27 The Heb. lacks of discipline
- Lamentations 3:28 Lit. because he
- Lamentations 3:31 The Heb. lacks us
- Lamentations 3:36 Lit. see
- Lamentations 3:42 The Heb. lacks us
- Lamentations 3:48 Lit. of the daughter of
- Lamentations 3:49 Lit. My eye pours
- Lamentations 3:51 Lit. My eye
- Lamentations 3:51 Lit. the daughters
- Lamentations 3:53 Lit. pit, casting a stone at me
- Lamentations 3:54 Lit. “I’m cut off.”
- Lamentations 3:55 I.e. the place of punishment in the afterlife
- Lamentations 3:56 Lit. my relief, to my cry
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