Lamentationes, 3

1. ALEPH ego vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis ejus

1. Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

2. ALEPH me minavit et adduxit in tenebris et non in lucem

2. Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

3. ALEPH tantum in me vertit et convertit manum suam tota die

3. Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

4. BETH vetustam fecit pellem meam et carnem meam contrivit ossa mea

4. Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

5. BETH ædificavit in gyro meo et circumdedit me felle et labore

5. Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.

6. BETH in tenebrosis conlocavit me quasi mortuos sempiternos

6. Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.

7. GIMEL circumædificavit adversum me ut non egrediar adgravavit conpedem meam

7. Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

8. GIMEL sed et cum clamavero et rogavero exclusit orationem meam

8. Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

9. GIMEL conclusit vias meas lapidibus quadris semitas meas subvertit

9. Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

10. DELETH ursus insidians factus est mihi leo in absconditis

10. Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

11. DELETH semitas meas subvertit et confregit me posuit me desolatam

11. Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.

12. DELETH tetendit arcum suum et posuit me quasi signum ad sagittam

12. Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

13. HE misit in renibus meis filias faretræ suæ

13. He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.

14. HE factus sum in derisu omni populo meo canticum eorum tota die

14. He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.

15. HE replevit me amaritudinibus inebriavit me absinthio

15. He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.

16. VAV et fregit ad numerum dentes meos cibavit me cinere

16. Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

17. VAV et repulsa est anima mea oblitus sum bonorum

17. Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.

18. VAV et dixi periit finis meus et spes mea a Domino

18. Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.

19. ZAI recordare paupertatis et transgressionis meæ absinthii et fellis

19. Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.

20. ZAI memoria memor ero et tabescet in me anima mea

20. Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.

21. ZAI hoc recolens in corde meo ideo sperabo

21. Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.

22. HETH misericordiæ Domini quia non sumus consumpti quia non defecerunt miserationes ejus

22. Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

23. HETH novæ diluculo multa est fides tua

23. Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.

24. HETH pars mea Dominus dixit anima mea propterea expectabo eum

24. Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

25. TETH bonus est Dominus sperantibus in eum animæ quærenti illum

25. Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26. TETH bonum est præstolari cum silentio salutare Domini

26. Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

27. TETH bonum est viro cum portaverit jugum ab adulescentia sua

27. Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.

28. JOTH sedebit solitarius et tacebit quia levavit super se

28. Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

29. JOTH ponet in pulvere os suum si forte sit spes

29. Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

30. JOTH dabit percutienti se maxillam saturabitur obprobriis

30. Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

31. CAPH quia non repellet in sempiternum Dominus

31. Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

32. CAPH quia si abiecit et miserebitur secundum multitudinem misericordiarum suarum

32. Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.

33. CAPH non enim humiliavit ex corde suo et abiecit filios hominis

33. Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

34. LAMED ut contereret sub pedibus suis omnes vinctos terræ

34. Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

35. LAMED ut declinaret judicium viri in conspectu vultus Altissimi

35. Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,

36. LAMED ut perverteret hominem in judicio suo Dominus ignoravit

36. Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.

37. MEM quis est iste qui dixit ut fieret Domino non jubente

37. Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

38. MEM ex ore Altissimi non egredientur nec mala nec bona

38. Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?

39. MEM quid murmuravit homo vivens vir pro peccatis suis

39. Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?

40. NUN scrutemur vias nostras et quæramus et revertamur ad Dominum

40. Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.

41. NUN levemus corda nostra cum manibus ad Dominum in cælos

41. Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.

42. NUN nos inique egimus et ad iracundiam provocavimus idcirco tu inexorabilis es

42. Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.

43. SAMECH operuisti in furore et percussisti nos occidisti nec pepercisti

43. Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.

44. SAMECH opposuisti nubem tibi ne transeat oratio

44. Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

45. SAMECH eradicationem et abiectionem posuisti me in medio populorum

45. Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.

46. FE aperuerunt super nos os suum omnes inimici

46. Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47. FE formido et laqueus facta est nobis vaticinatio et contritio

47. Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.

48. FE divisiones aquarum deduxit oculus meus in contritione filiæ populi mei

48. Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49. AIN oculus meus adflictus est nec tacuit eo quod non esset requies

49. Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:

50. AIN donec respiceret et videret Dominus de cælis

50. Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.

51. AIN oculus meus deprædatus est animam meam in cunctis filiabus urbis meæ

51. Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

52. SADE venatione ceperunt me quasi avem inimici mei gratis

52. Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

53. SADE lapsa est in lacu vita mea et posuerunt lapidem super me

53. Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.

54. SADE inundaverunt aquæ super caput meum dixi perii

54. Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

55. COPH invocavi nomen tuum Domine de lacis novissimis

55. Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

56. COPH vocem meam audisti ne avertas aurem tuam a singultu meo et clamoribus

56. Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

57. COPH adpropinquasti in die quando invocavi te dixisti ne timeas

57. Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.

58. RES judicasti Domine causam animæ meæ redemptor vitæ meæ

58. Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.

59. RES vidisti Domine iniquitatem adversum me judica judicium meum

59. Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.

60. RES vidisti omnem furorem universas cogitationes eorum adversum me

60. Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.

61. SEN audisti obprobria eorum Domine omnes cogitationes eorum adversum me

61. Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.

62. SEN labia insurgentium mihi et meditationes eorum adversum me tota die

62. Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

63. SEN sessionem eorum et resurrectionem eorum vide ego sum psalmus eorum

63. Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.

64. THAU reddes eis vicem Domine juxta opera manuum suarum

64. Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

65. THAU dabis eis scutum cordis laborem tuum

65. Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.

66. THAU persequeris in furore et conteres eos sub cælis Domine

66. Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.