Lamentations 3

by the rod of his wrath.

and not in light.

again and again all day long.

He has broken my bones.

and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

as those who have been long dead.

He has made my chain heavy.

he shuts out my prayer.

He has made my paths crooked.

as a lion in secret places.

He has made me desolate.

and set me as a mark for the arrow.

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

and their song all day long.

He has stuffed me with wormwood.

He has covered me with ashes.

I forgot prosperity.

along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

the wormwood and the bitterness.

and is bowed down within me.

therefore I have hope.

because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Great is your faithfulness.

“Therefore I will hope in him.”

to the soul who seeks him.

and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

because he has laid it on him.

if it is so that there may be hope.

Let him be filled full of reproach.

For the Lord will not cast off forever.

yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

nor grieve the children of men.

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

a man for the punishment of his sins?

and turn again to Yahweh.

Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

You have not pardoned.

You have not pitied.

so that no prayer can pass through.

in the middle of the peoples.

“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

devastation and destruction.”

for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

without any intermission,

and sees from heaven.

because of all the daughters of my city.

those who are my enemies without cause.

and have cast a stone on me.

I said, “I am cut off.”

out of the lowest dungeon.

and my cry.”

You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

You have redeemed my life.

Judge my cause.

and all their plans against me.

and all their plans against me,

and their plots against me all day long.

I am their song.

according to the work of their hands.

your curse to them.

and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.