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Lamentations 3 📜 📕 ↷
Prophet's Afflictions
1 ALEPH. The man that see my poverty in the rod of his indignation.📜💬📚
2 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness and not into light.📜💬📚
3 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned and hath converted his hand all the day.📜💬📚
4 Beth. He hath made my skin old and my flesh, he hath broken my bones.📜💬📚
5 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.📜💬📚
6 Beth. In dark places he hath placed me as the everlasting dead.📜💬📚
7 Ghimel. He hath built round about against me, that I go not forth: he hath aggravated my fetters.📜💬📚
8 Ghimel. Yea and when I shall cry, and ask, he hath excluded my prayer.📜💬📚
9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath subverted my paths.📜💬📚
10 Daleth. He is become unto me a bear lying in wait: a lion in secret places.📜💬📚
11 Daleth. He hath subverted my paths, and hath broken me, he hath made me desolate.📜💬📚
12 Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.📜💬📚
13 He. He hath shot in my reins the daughters of his quiver.📜💬📚
14 He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day.📜💬📚
15 He. He hath replenished me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.📜💬📚
16 Vau. And he hath broken my teeth by number, he hath fed me with ashes.📜💬📚
17 Vau. And my soul is repelled from peace, I have forgotten good things.📜💬📚
18 Vau. And I said: Mine end is perished, and mine hope from our Lord.📜💬📚
Prophet's Hope
19 Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.📜💬📚
20 Zain. Remembering I will be mindful, and my soul shall languish in me.📜💬📚
21 Zain. Recording this thing in my heart, therefore will I hope.📜💬📚
22 Heth. The mercies of our Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.📜💬📚
23 Heth. New in the morning, great is thy fidelity.📜💬📚
24 Heth. Our Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I expect him.📜💬📚
25 Teth. Our Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.📜💬📚
26 Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.📜💬📚
27 Teth. It is good for a man, when he beareth the yoke from his youth.📜💬📚
28 Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath lifted himself above himself.📜💬📚
29 Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there be hope.📜💬📚
30 Jod. He shall give the cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.📜💬📚
31 Caph. Because our Lord will not reject for ever.📜💬📚
32 Caph. Because if he hath rejected, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.📜💬📚
33 Caph. For he hath not humbled from his heart, and cast off the children of men.📜💬📚
34 Lamed. To stamp under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.📜💬📚
35 Lamed. To avert the judgement of a man before the face of the Highest📜💬📚
36 Lamed. To pervert a man in his judgement, our Lord hath not known.📜💬📚
God's Justice
37 Mem. Who is this, that hath commanded it to be done, our Lord not commanding it?📜💬📚
38 Mem. Out of the mouth of the Highest, there shall not proceed neither evil things, nor good.📜💬📚
39 Mem. What hath the living man murmured, man for his sins?📜💬📚
40 Nun. Let us search our ways, & seek, and return to our Lord.📜💬📚
41 Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to our Lord into the heavens.📜💬📚
42 Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.📜💬📚
43 Samech. Thou hast covered in fury, and hast strucken us: thou hast killed, and not spared.📜💬📚
44 Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that prayer may not pass.📜💬📚
45 Samech. Thou hast made me to be rooted out, and abject in the midst of the peoples.📜💬📚
46 Phe. All the enemies have opened their mouth upon us.📜💬📚
47 Phe. Prophecy is made unto us, fear, and snare, and destruction.📜💬📚
48 Phe. Mine eye hath shed streams of waters, in the destruction of the daughter of my people.📜💬📚
49 Ain. Mine eye is afflicted, neither hath it been quiet, because there was no rest:📜💬📚
50 Ain. Till our Lord regarded and looked from the heavens.📜💬📚
51 Ain. Mine eye hath spoiled my soul for all the daughters of my city.📜💬📚
52 Sade. Mine enemies in hunting have caught me as a bird, without cause.📜💬📚
53 Sade. My life is fallen into the lake, and they have laid a stone upon me.📜💬📚
54 Sade. The waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am undone.📜💬📚
55 Coph. I have invocated thy name o Lord from the lowest lake.📜💬📚
56 Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thine ear from my sobbings, and cries.📜💬📚
57 Coph. Thou didst approach in the day, when I invocated thee: thou hast said: Fear not.📜💬📚
58 Res. Thou hast judged o Lord the cause of my soul, redeemer of my life.📜💬📚
59 Res. Thou hast seen o Lord their iniquity against me: judge my judgement.📜💬📚
60 Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, all their cogitations against me.📜💬📚
61 Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach o Lord, all their cogitations against me.📜💬📚
62 Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me; and their cogitations against me all the day.📜💬📚
63 Sin. See their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their psalm.📜💬📚
64 Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense o Lord, according to the works of their hands.📜💬📚
65 Thau. Thou shalt give them a shield of heart thy labour.📜💬📚
66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute in fury, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens o Lord.📜💬📚
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