Lam Lamentations, chapter Book of Lamentations, chapter 3
I am the gever that hath seen affliction
by the rod of His wrath.Ezk 7:10
He hath driven me away, and brought me
into choshech, but not into ohr.Jer 13:16
Surely against me is He turned;
He turneth His yad against me kol hayom.Job 19:21
My basar and my ohr (skin) hath He made old;
He hath broken my atzmot.
He hath set up siegeworks against me,
and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.Jer 9:14
He hath set me in dark places,
like the mesei olam (long dead).Psa 143:3
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot escape;
He hath made my chain heavy.Job 19:8
Also when I cry and call out,
He shutteth out my tefillah.
He hath barred my ways with hewn stone,
He hath made my paths crooked.Hos 2:8
He was unto me like a dov (bear) lying in wait,
and like an aryeh in mistarim (hiding places).Hos 5:14; Hos 13:7
He hath turned aside the darkhei of mine, and pulled me in pieces;
He hath made me desolate.
He hath bent His keshet,
and set me as a target for the khetz (arrow).Job 16:12
He hath caused the arrows of His quiver
to enter into my organs.
I was a derision to kol ami;
and their3:14 mocking song kol hayom.Job 30:9
He hath filled me with merorim (bitter herbs);
He hath made me drunk with suffering.Job 9:18
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel,
He hath covered me with aphar.Pro 20:17
And Thou hast removed my nefesh far off from shalom;
I forgot tovah (prosperity).
And I said: My strength and my hope
is perished from Hashem.Jer 17:13
Remember mine oni (affliction) and my misery,
the sorrow and the trouble.
My nefesh hath them still in remembrance,
and is downcast in me.Mrk 15:23
This I recall to my lev,
therefore have I hope:
Because of the chasdei Hashem we are not consumed,
for His rachamim fail not.Neh 9:31; Psa 86:13; Jhn 3:16
They are chadashim every boker;
great is Thy faithfulness.Psa 138:8
Hashem is my chelek, saith my nefesh;
therefore in hope will I wait for Him.Psa 16:5; Jer 10:16
Hashem is tov unto them that wait for Him,
to the nefesh that seeketh Him.Psa 34:9; Hab 2:3
It is good that a man should both hope
and quietly wait for the Teshu'at Hashem.
It is tov for a gever that
he bear the ol (yoke) from his youth.Psa 119:71
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence,
because He hath laid it upon him.Psa 39:10; Psa 77:11
He putteth his mouth in the aphar;
there may yet be tikvah.
He offereth his lekhi (cheek) to him that striketh him;
he is filled full with reproach.3:30 Isa 50:6Mat 5:39
For Adonoi will not cast off l'olam (forever);Psa 77:8
But though He cause grief,
yet will He have compassion according to the rov chasadav (the multitude of His mercies).Psa 30:6; Isa 54:7; Mic 7:18
For He doth not afflict willingly
nor bring grief to Bnei Ish.
To crush under His feet
kol asirei eretz (all the prisoners of the earth),
To turn aside the mishpat gever (the right of a man)
before the face of Elyon,
To subvert a man in his cause,
Adonoi approveth not.
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass,
when Adonoi commandeth it not?
Out of the mouth of Elyon proceedeth not
hara'ot (the woe) and hatov (the good)?Jhn 1:3
Why doth an adam chai (any man alive) complain,
a gever for the punishment of his sins?Jer 30:15; Mat 7:3
Let us search and test derakheinu (our ways),
and let us turn again to Hashem.Jer 3:23; 1Co 11:28
Let us lift up levavenu (our heart) with our hands
unto El baShomayim.
We have transgressed and have rebelled;
Atah lo salachta (Thou hast not pardoned, forgiven).Dan 9:5
Thou hast covered with af (anger), and pursued us;
Thou hast slain, Thou hast not pitied.
Thou hast covered Thyself with an anan,
that our tefillah not pass through.
Thou hast made us as the offscouring
and refuse among the amim.1Co 4:13
Kol oyveinu (all our enemies)
have opened their mouths against us.
Pachad (terror) and a snare is come upon us,
ruin and destruction.Isa 24:17
Mine eye runneth down with streams of mayim
for the destruction of Bat Ami.Jer 14:17
Mine eye will flow down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission
Till Hashem look down, and behold from Shomayim.Psa 80:15
Mine eye affecteth mine nefesh
because of all the banot of my city.Lam 1:16
Mine enemies hunted me down,
like a tzippor (bird), without cause.Jer 12:9
They have cut off my life in the bor (pit)
and cast an even (stone) upon me.Jer 37:15
Mayim flowed over mine rosh;
then I said: I am cut off.
I called upon Thy Shem, Hashem,
out of the lowest pit.Psa 130:1
Thou hast heard my voice;
close not thine ear at my sighing,
at my cry.
Thou drewest near on the Yom that I called upon Thee;
Thou saidst: Fear not.
Adonoi, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my nefesh;
Thou hast redeemed my life.
Hashem, Thou hast seen my wrong;
uphold my cause.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance
and all their machsh'vot against me.
Thou hast heard their reproach, Hashem,
and all their machsh'vot against me;
The whisperings of those that rose up against me,
and their muttering against me kol hayom.
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up;
Ani (I) am their mocking song.
Render unto them a gemul (recompence), Hashem,
according to the work of their hands.Psa 28:4
Give them hardness of lev as thy curse unto them.
Pursue in anger and destroy them
from under HaShomayim of Hashem.Psa 79:6