Panaghoy 3
Magandang Balita Biblia
Parusa, Pagsisisi at Pag-asa
3 Naranasan ko kung gaano kahirap ang maparusahan ng Diyos.
2 Itinaboy niya ako sa lugar na wala kahit bahagyang liwanag.
3 Walang awa niya akong hinahampas sa buong maghapon.
4 Tadtad ng sugat ang buo kong katawan at bali-bali ang aking mga buto.
5 Ibinilanggo niya ako sa kalungkutan at pagdurusa.
6 Isinadlak niya ako sa kadiliman, laging nasa bingit ng kamatayan.
7 Ginapos niya ako para hindi makatakas, pinalibutan ako ng pader na mataas.
8 Nanambitan man ako at humingi ng tulong, hindi niya dininig ang aking dalangin.
9 Susuray-suray ako sa tindi ng hirap, at kahit saan ako bumaling
ay may pader na nakaharang.
10 Siya'y parang osong nag-aabang sa akin; at parang leong nag-aantay.
11 Hinabol niya ako saka niluray; at iniwang nakahandusay.
12 Iniakma niya ang kanyang pana, at ako ang ginawang tudlaan.
13 Tinamaan ako sa aking puso ng kanyang mga palaso.
14 Buong araw ako'y pinagtatawanan; sa mga kwentuhan ako ay biruan.
15 Pawang kapaitan at kalungkutan ang ipinalasap niya sa akin.
16 Inginudngod niya sa lupa ang aking mukha at idinikdik sa bato ang aking bibig.
17 Naglaho sa akin ang bakas ng kalusugan, maging kapayapaan at kaligayahan man.
18 Kaya't sinasabi ko, “Nawala na ang aking lakas at ang aking pag-asa kay Yahweh.”
19 Simpait ng apdo ang alalahanin sa aking paghihirap at kabiguan.
20 Lagi ko itong naaalaala, at ako'y labis na napipighati.
21 Gayunma'y nanunumbalik ang aking pag-asa kapag naalala kong:
22 Pag-ibig mo, Yahweh, ay hindi nagmamaliw; kahabagan mo'y walang kapantay.
23 Ito ay laging sariwa bawat umaga; katapatan mo'y napakadakila.
24 Si Yahweh ay akin, sa kanya ako magtitiwala.
25 Si Yahweh ay mabuti sa mga nananalig at umaasa sa kanya,
26 kaya't pinakamainam ang buong tiyagang umasa sa ating kaligtasang si Yahweh ang may dala.
27 At mabuti sa isang tao na siya'y matutong magtiyaga mula sa kanyang kabataan.
28 Kung siya'y palasapin ng kahirapan, matahimik siyang magtiis at maghintay;
29 siya'y magpakumbaba sa harapan ni Yahweh, at huwag mawalan ng pag-asa.
30 Tanggapin ang lahat ng pananakit at paghamak na kanyang daranasin.
31 Mahabagin si Yahweh at hindi niya tayo itatakwil habang panahon.
32 Bagaman siya'y nagpaparusa, hindi naman nawawala ang kanyang pag-ibig.
33 Hindi niya ikatutuwang tayo'y saktan o pahirapan.
34 Hindi nalilingid kay Yahweh kung naghihirap ang ating kalooban,
35 maging ang ating karapatan, kung tayo'y pagkaitan.
36 Kung ang katarungan ay hayagang tinutuya, siguradong si Yahweh ay hindi magpapabaya.
37 Walang anumang bagay na mangyayari, nang hindi sa kapahintulutan ni Yahweh.
38 Nasa kapangyarihan ng Kataas-taasang Diyos ang masama at mabuti.
39 Bakit tayo magrereklamo kapag tayo'y pinaparusahan kung dahil naman ito sa ating mga kasalanan?
40 Siyasatin nati't suriin ang ating pamumuhay, at tayo'y manumbalik kay Yahweh!
41 Dumulog tayo sa Diyos at tayo'y manalangin:
42 “Kami'y nagkasala at naghimagsik, at hindi mo kami pinatawad.
43 “Sa iyong matinding galit ay hinabol mo kami at walang awang pinatay.
44 Ang galit mo'y tila makapal na ulap na hindi malampasan ng aming mga dalangin.
45 Ginawa mo kaming tambakan ng kasamaan ng sanlibutan.
46 “Kinukutya kami ng aming mga kaaway;
47 nagdaan na kami sa pagkawasak at kapahamakan, naranasan namin ang mabingit sa panganib at manginig sa takot.
48 Hindi mapigil ang pagbalong ng aking mga luha, dahil sa kapahamakang sinapit ng aking bayan.
49 “Walang tigil ang pagdaloy ng aking mga luha,
50 hanggang si Yahweh ay tumunghay mula sa langit at kami'y lingapin.
51 Nagdadalamhati ako dahil sa sinapit ng mga kababaihan sa aking lunsod.
52 “Para akong ibong binitag ng aking mga kaaway, gayong wala silang dahilan upang kamuhian ako.
53 Ako'y inihulog nila nang buháy sa isang balon, at tinakpan ng bato ang bunganga nito.
54 Lumubog ako sa tubig, at nasabi ko, ‘Wala na akong pag-asang mabuhay pa.’
55 “O Yahweh, tinawag ko ang iyong pangalan nang ako'y nasa kailaliman ng balon;
56 narinig mo ang aking samo, ‘Huwag mong takpan ang iyong pandinig sa aking paghingi ng tulong!’
57 Nilapitan mo ako nang ika'y tawagan ko; sinabi mo sa akin, ‘Huwag kang matakot!’
58 “Tinulungan mo ako, Yahweh, at iniligtas mo ang aking buhay.
59 Hindi kaila sa iyo ang kasamaang ginawa nila sa akin; bigyan mo ako ng katarungan.
60 Nakita mo ang kanilang paghihiganti at masasamang balak laban sa akin.
61 “Narinig mo, Yahweh, ang pangungutya nila't mga pakana laban sa akin.
62 Nagsasalita at nag-iisip laban sa akin ang mga kaaway ko.
63 Mula umaga hanggang gabi kanilang panunuya'y walang pasintabi.
64 “O Yahweh, parusahan mo sila, ayon sa kanilang ginawa.
65-66 Pahirapan mo sila, at iyong sumpain;
habulin mo sila at iyong lipulin!”
Lamentations 3
English Standard Version
Great Is Your Faithfulness
3 (A)I am the man who has seen affliction
under the (B)rod of his wrath;
2 he has driven and brought me
(C)into darkness without any light;
3 surely against me he turns his hand
again and again the whole day long.
4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
(D)he has broken my bones;
5 (E)he has besieged and enveloped me
with (F)bitterness and tribulation;
6 (G)he has made me dwell in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
7 (H)He has walled me about so that (I)I cannot escape;
he has made my chains heavy;
8 though (J)I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;
9 (K)he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
10 (L)He is a bear lying in wait for me,
a lion in hiding;
11 (M)he turned aside my steps and (N)tore me to pieces;
(O)he has made me desolate;
12 (P)he bent his bow (Q)and set me
as a target for his arrow.
13 He drove into my kidneys
(R)the arrows of his quiver;
14 (S)I have become the laughingstock of all my people,[a]
(T)the object of their taunts all day long.
15 (U)He has filled me with bitterness;
he has sated me with (V)wormwood.
16 (W)He has made my teeth grind on gravel,
and (X)made me cower in ashes;
17 my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness[b] is;
18 (Y)so I say, “My endurance has perished;
so has my hope from the Lord.”
19 (Z)Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
(AA)the wormwood and (AB)the gall!
20 My soul continually remembers it
(AC)and is bowed down within me.
21 But this I call to mind,
and (AD)therefore I have hope:
22 (AE)The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;[c]
(AF)his mercies never come to an end;
23 they are new (AG)every morning;
(AH)great is your faithfulness.
24 (AI)“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
(AJ)“therefore I will hope in him.”
25 The Lord is good to those who (AK)wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
26 (AL)It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
27 (AM)It is good for a man that he bear
the yoke (AN)in his youth.
28 Let him (AO)sit alone in silence
when it is laid on him;
29 (AP)let him put his mouth in the dust—
there may yet be hope;
30 (AQ)let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
and let him be filled with insults.
31 (AR)For the Lord will not
cast off forever,
32 for, though he (AS)cause grief, (AT)he will have compassion
(AU)according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
33 (AV)for he does not afflict from his heart
or (AW)grieve the children of men.
34 To crush underfoot
all (AX)the prisoners of the earth,
35 (AY)to deny a man justice
in the presence of the Most High,
36 to subvert a man in his lawsuit,
(AZ)the Lord does not approve.
37 (BA)Who has spoken and it came to pass,
unless the Lord has commanded it?
38 (BB)Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that good and bad come?
39 (BC)Why should a living man complain,
a man, about the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us test and examine our ways,
(BD)and return to the Lord!
41 (BE)Let us lift up our hearts and hands
to God in heaven:
42 (BF)“We have transgressed and (BG)rebelled,
and you have not forgiven.
43 “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
(BH)killing without pity;
44 (BI)you have wrapped yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can pass through.
45 (BJ)You have made us scum and garbage
among the peoples.
46 (BK)“All our enemies
open their mouths against us;
47 (BL)panic and pitfall have come upon us,
devastation and (BM)destruction;
48 (BN)my eyes flow with rivers of tears
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 (BO)“My eyes will flow without ceasing,
without respite,
50 (BP)until the Lord from heaven
looks down and sees;
51 my eyes cause me grief
at the fate of all the daughters of my city.
52 (BQ)“I have been hunted (BR)like a bird
by those who were my enemies (BS)without cause;
53 (BT)they flung me alive into the pit[d]
(BU)and cast stones on me;
54 (BV)water closed over my head;
I said, (BW)‘I am lost.’
55 (BX)“I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;
56 (BY)you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
your ear to my cry for help!’
57 (BZ)You came near when I called on you;
you said, (CA)‘Do not fear!’
58 “You have (CB)taken up my cause, (CC)O Lord;
you have (CD)redeemed my life.
59 You have seen the wrong done to me, (CE)O Lord;
judge my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance,
all (CF)their plots against me.
61 (CG)“You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
all (CH)their plots against me.
62 The lips and thoughts (CI)of my assailants
are against me all the day long.
63 (CJ)Behold their sitting and their rising;
(CK)I am the object of their taunts.
64 (CL)“You will repay them,[e] O Lord,
(CM)according to the work of their hands.
65 You will give them[f] dullness of heart;
your curse will be[g] on them.
66 You will pursue them[h] in anger and (CN)destroy them
from under (CO)your heavens, O Lord.”[i]
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:14 Some manuscripts all peoples
- Lamentations 3:17 Hebrew good
- Lamentations 3:22 Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Because of the steadfast love of the Lord, we are not cut off
- Lamentations 3:53 Or they end my life in the pit
- Lamentations 3:64 Or Repay them
- Lamentations 3:65 Or Give them
- Lamentations 3:65 Or place your curse
- Lamentations 3:66 Or Pursue them
- Lamentations 3:66 Syriac (compare Septuagint, Vulgate); Hebrew the heavens of the Lord
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