26 August - Lamentations 3:37-5

Jude Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:33 pm

My soul doth magnify my YAH, and my spirit hath rejoiced in EL my Saviour; For HE that is mighty hath done to me great things; and Holy is HIS Name. Now unto HIM who is ever present in my helpless estate; who is able to keep me from falling and to present me faultless before the presence of His Glory with exceeding joy, unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only wise EL our Saviour be honour and glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and for ever Halleluyah!

LAMENTATIONS 3:37-66

37Who was it that spoke, And it came to be! Has יהוה not commanded it?

38Do not the evils and the good Come out of the mouth of the Most High?

39What? Should mankind complain, A living man, because of his sins?

40Let us search and examine our ways, And turn back to יהוה.

41Let us lift our hearts and hands To Ěl in the heavens and say:

42We, we have transgressed and rebelled. You, You have not forgiven.

43You have wrapped Yourself With displeasure and pursued us. You have slain, You have not shown compassion.

44You have wrapped Yourself With a cloud, so that prayer does not pass through.

45You make us as scum and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

46All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.

47Fear and a snare have come upon us, Shame and ruin.

48Streams of water run down my eye For the ruin of the daughter of my people.

49My eye flows out and does not cease, Without stopping,

50Until יהוה looks down and sees from the heavens.

51My eye pains my being Because of all the daughters of my city.

52My enemies hunted me down Like a bird, without cause.

53They have cut off my life in the pit, And they threw stones at me.

54Waters flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off!”

55I called on Your Name, O יהוה, from the lowest pit.

56You have heard my voice, Do not hide Your ear from my groaning, From my outcry!

57You drew near on the day I called on You; You said, “Do not fear!”

58O יהוה, You did plead the case for my being; You have redeemed my life.

59O יהוה, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.

60You have seen all their vengeance, All their plans against me.

61You have heard their reproach, O יהוה, all their plans against me,

62The lips of those rising against me, And their scheming against me all the day.

63Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their song.

64Repay them, O יהוה, According to the work of their hands.

65Give them a veiled heart, Your curse upon them!

66Pursue and destroy them in displeasure, From under the heavens of יהוה.

LAMENTATIONS 4

1How dim the gold has become, The fine gold changed! The stones of the set-apart place Are scattered at the head of every street.

2The precious sons of Tsiyon Who were weighed against fine gold, How they have been reckoned as clay pots, The work of the hands of the potter!

3Even jackals have presented their breasts, They have nursed their young. The daughter of my people has become as cruel, As ostriches in the wilderness.

4The tongue of the infant has clung To the roof of its mouth for thirst; Children asked for bread, No one breaks it for them.

5Those who ate delicacies Have been laid waste in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Have embraced dunghills.

6And the crookedness of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Seḏom, Which was overthrown in a moment, And no hands were wrung over her!

7Her Nazirites were brighter than snow And whiter than milk; More ruddy in body than rubies, Their cut like sapphire.

8Their appearance has become blacker than soot; They have become unrecognised in the streets; Their skin has shrivelled on their bones, It has become dry, it has become as wood.

9Better off were those pierced by the sword Than those pierced by hunger; For these pine away, Pierced through for lack of the fruits of the field.

10The hands of the compassionate women Have boiled their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11יהוה has completed His wrath, He has poured out His burning displeasure. And He kindled a fire in Tsiyon, And it consumed her foundations.

12The sovereigns of the earth did not believe, Nor any of the inhabitants of the world, That an adversary and enemy Would enter the gates of Yerushalayim.

13It was because of the sins of her prophets, The crookednesses of her priests, Who shed in her midst the blood of the righteous.

14They staggered, blind, in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one was able to touch their garments.

15They shouted at them, “Away! Unclean! Away! Away! Touch not!” When they fled and staggered, They said, among the gentiles, “They shall stay no longer.”

16The face of יהוה scattered them. He no longer regards them. They showed no respect for the priests Nor favour to the elders.

17While we exist, our eyes are consumed, Watching vainly for our help. In our watch-tower we watched for a nation That could not save.

18They have hunted our steps From going in our streets. Our end was near, Our days were completed, For our end had come.

19Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the heavens. They came hotly after us on the mountains And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of יהוה, Was caught in their pits, In whose shadow we had thought To live among the gentiles.

21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Eḏom, You who dwell in the land of Uz! The cup is to pass over to you too, So that you become drunk and make yourself naked.

22Your crookedness has been completed, O daughter of Tsiyon. He no longer prolongs your exile. He shall punish your crookedness, O daughter of Eḏom, He shall uncover your sins!

LAMENTATIONS 5

1Remember, O יהוה, what has come upon us. Look, and see our reproach!

2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, And our houses to foreigners.

3We have become orphans, fatherless, Our mothers are like widows.

4We had to pay for our drinking water, And our wood comes at a price.

5We have been pursued close onto our neck, We have laboured and had no rest.

6To Mitsrayim we have given a hand; To Ashshur, to be satisfied with bread.

7Our fathers sinned, they are no more. We have borne their crookednesses.

8Servants have ruled over us; There is no one to deliver from their hand.

9With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

10Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of scarcity of food.

11They have humbled the women in Tsiyon, The maidens in the cities of Yehuḏah.

12Rulers were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

13They have taken young men to grind, And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

14Elders have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.

15The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has turned into mourning.

16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

17Because of this our heart has been sick, Because of these our eyes have become dim,

18Because of Mount Tsiyon which is laid waste; Foxes have gone roaming in it.

19You, O יהוה, remain forever, Your throne from generation to generation.

20Why do You forget us forever, Forsake us for length of days?

21Turn us back to You, O יהוה, And let us turn back, Renew our days as of old.

22You have been wroth with us, exceedingly!