Lamentaciones 3
Reina-Valera Antigua
3 YO soy el hombre que ha visto aflicción en la vara de su enojo.
2 Guióme y llevóme en tinieblas, mas no en luz.
3 Ciertamente contra mí volvió y revolvió su mano todo el día.
4 Hizo envejecer mi carne y mi piel; quebrantó mis huesos.
5 Edificó contra mí, y cercóme de tósigo y de trabajo.
6 Asentóme en oscuridades, como los ya muertos de mucho tiempo.
7 Cercóme por todos lados, y no puedo salir; agravó mis grillos.
8 Aun cuando clamé y dí voces, cerro los oídos a mi oración.
9 Cercó mis caminos con piedra tajada, torció mis senderos.
10 Como oso que acecha fué para mí, como león en escondrijos.
11 Torció mis caminos, y depedazóme; tornóme asolado.
12 Su arco entesó, y púsome como blanco a la saeta.
13 Hizo entrar en mis riñones las saetas de su aljaba.
14 Fuí escarnio á todo mi pueblo, canción de ellos todos los días.
15 Hartóme de amarguras, embriagóme de ajenjos.
16 Quebróme los dientes con cascajo, cubrióme de ceniza.
17 Y mi alma se alejó de la paz, olvidéme del bien.
18 Y dije: Pereció mi fortaleza, y mi esperanza de Jehová.
19 Acuérdate de mi aflicción y de mi abatimiento, del ajenjo y de la hiel.
20 Tendrálo aún en memoria mi alma, porque en mí está humillada.
21 Esto reduciré á mi corazón, por lo cual esperaré.
22 Es por la misericordia de Jehová que no somos consumidos, porque nunca decayeron sus misericordias.
23 Nuevas son cada mañana; grande es tu fidelidad.
24 Mi parte es Jehová, dijo mi alma; por tanto en él esperaré.
25 Bueno es Jehová á los que en él esperan, al alma que le buscare.
26 Bueno es esperar callando en la salud de Jehová.
27 Bueno es al hombre, si llevare el yugo desde su mocedad.
28 Sentaráse solo, y callará, porque lo llevó sobre sí.
29 Pondrá su boca en el polvo, por si quizá hay esperanza.
30 Dará la mejilla al que le hiriere; hartaráse de afrenta.
31 Porque el Señor no desechará para siempre:
32 Antes si afligiere, también se compadecerá según la multitud de sus misericordias.
33 Porque no aflige ni congoja de su corazón á los hijos de los hombres.
34 Desmenuzar bajo de sus pies todos los encarcelados de la tierra,
35 Hacer apartar el derecho del hombre ante la presencia del Altísimo,
36 Trastornar al hombre en su causa, el Señor no lo sabe.
37 ¿Quién será aquel que diga, que vino algo que el Señor no mandó?
38 ¿De la boca del Altísimo no saldrá malo y bueno?
39 ¿Por qué murmura el hombre viviente, el hombre en su pecado?
40 Escudriñemos nuestros caminos, y busquemos, y volvámonos a Jehová.
41 Levantemos nuestros corazones con las manos a Dios en los cielos.
42 Nosotros nos hemos rebelado, y fuimos desleales; tú no perdonaste.
43 Desplegaste la ira, y nos perseguiste; mataste, no perdonaste.
44 Te cubriste de nube, porque no pasase la oración nuestra.
45 Raedura y abominación nos tornaste en medio de los pueblos.
46 Todos nuestros enemigos abrieron sobre nosotros su boca.
47 Temor y lazo fué para nosotros, asolamiento y quebrantamiento.
48 Ríos de aguas echan mis ojos, por el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo.
49 Mis ojos destilan, y no cesan, porque no hay alivio,
50 Hasta que Jehová mire y vea desde los cielos.
51 Mis ojos contristaron mi alma, por todas las hijas de mi ciudad.
52 Mis enemigos me dieron caza como á ave, sin por qué.
53 Ataron mi vida en mazmorra, pusieron piedra sobre mí.
54 Aguas de avenida vinieron sobre mi cabeza; yo dije: Muerto soy.
55 Invoqué tu nombre, oh Jehová, desde la cárcel profunda.
56 Oiste mi voz; no escondas tu oído á mi clamor, para mi respiro
57 Acercástete el día que te invoqué: dijiste: No temas.
58 Abogaste, Señor, la causa de mi alma; redimiste mi vida.
59 Tú has visto, oh Jehová, mi agravio; defiende mi causa.
60 Tú has visto toda su venganza; todos sus pensamientos contra mí.
61 Tú has oído el oprobio de ellos, oh Jehová, todas sus maquinaciones contra mí;
62 Los dichos de los que contra mí se levantaron, y su designio contra mí todo el día.
63 Su sentarse, y su levantarse mira: yo soy su canción.
64 Dales el pago, oh Jehová, según la obra de sus manos.
65 Dales ansia de corazón, tu maldición á ellos.
66 Persíguelos en tu furor, y quebrántalos de debajo de los cielos, oh Jehová.
Lamentations 3
English Standard Version
Great Is Your Faithfulness
3 (A)I am the man who has seen affliction
under the (B)rod of his wrath;
2 he has driven and brought me
(C)into darkness without any light;
3 surely against me he turns his hand
again and again the whole day long.
4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
(D)he has broken my bones;
5 (E)he has besieged and enveloped me
with (F)bitterness and tribulation;
6 (G)he has made me dwell in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
7 (H)He has walled me about so that (I)I cannot escape;
he has made my chains heavy;
8 though (J)I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;
9 (K)he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
10 (L)He is a bear lying in wait for me,
a lion in hiding;
11 (M)he turned aside my steps and (N)tore me to pieces;
(O)he has made me desolate;
12 (P)he bent his bow (Q)and set me
as a target for his arrow.
13 He drove into my kidneys
(R)the arrows of his quiver;
14 (S)I have become the laughingstock of all my people,[a]
(T)the object of their taunts all day long.
15 (U)He has filled me with bitterness;
he has sated me with (V)wormwood.
16 (W)He has made my teeth grind on gravel,
and (X)made me cower in ashes;
17 my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness[b] is;
18 (Y)so I say, “My endurance has perished;
so has my hope from the Lord.”
19 (Z)Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
(AA)the wormwood and (AB)the gall!
20 My soul continually remembers it
(AC)and is bowed down within me.
21 But this I call to mind,
and (AD)therefore I have hope:
22 (AE)The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;[c]
(AF)his mercies never come to an end;
23 they are new (AG)every morning;
(AH)great is your faithfulness.
24 (AI)“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
(AJ)“therefore I will hope in him.”
25 The Lord is good to those who (AK)wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
26 (AL)It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
27 (AM)It is good for a man that he bear
the yoke (AN)in his youth.
28 Let him (AO)sit alone in silence
when it is laid on him;
29 (AP)let him put his mouth in the dust—
there may yet be hope;
30 (AQ)let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
and let him be filled with insults.
31 (AR)For the Lord will not
cast off forever,
32 for, though he (AS)cause grief, (AT)he will have compassion
(AU)according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
33 (AV)for he does not afflict from his heart
or (AW)grieve the children of men.
34 To crush underfoot
all (AX)the prisoners of the earth,
35 (AY)to deny a man justice
in the presence of the Most High,
36 to subvert a man in his lawsuit,
(AZ)the Lord does not approve.
37 (BA)Who has spoken and it came to pass,
unless the Lord has commanded it?
38 (BB)Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that good and bad come?
39 (BC)Why should a living man complain,
a man, about the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us test and examine our ways,
(BD)and return to the Lord!
41 (BE)Let us lift up our hearts and hands
to God in heaven:
42 (BF)“We have transgressed and (BG)rebelled,
and you have not forgiven.
43 “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
(BH)killing without pity;
44 (BI)you have wrapped yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can pass through.
45 (BJ)You have made us scum and garbage
among the peoples.
46 (BK)“All our enemies
open their mouths against us;
47 (BL)panic and pitfall have come upon us,
devastation and (BM)destruction;
48 (BN)my eyes flow with rivers of tears
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 (BO)“My eyes will flow without ceasing,
without respite,
50 (BP)until the Lord from heaven
looks down and sees;
51 my eyes cause me grief
at the fate of all the daughters of my city.
52 (BQ)“I have been hunted (BR)like a bird
by those who were my enemies (BS)without cause;
53 (BT)they flung me alive into the pit[d]
(BU)and cast stones on me;
54 (BV)water closed over my head;
I said, (BW)‘I am lost.’
55 (BX)“I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;
56 (BY)you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
your ear to my cry for help!’
57 (BZ)You came near when I called on you;
you said, (CA)‘Do not fear!’
58 “You have (CB)taken up my cause, (CC)O Lord;
you have (CD)redeemed my life.
59 You have seen the wrong done to me, (CE)O Lord;
judge my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance,
all (CF)their plots against me.
61 (CG)“You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
all (CH)their plots against me.
62 The lips and thoughts (CI)of my assailants
are against me all the day long.
63 (CJ)Behold their sitting and their rising;
(CK)I am the object of their taunts.
64 (CL)“You will repay them,[e] O Lord,
(CM)according to the work of their hands.
65 You will give them[f] dullness of heart;
your curse will be[g] on them.
66 You will pursue them[h] in anger and (CN)destroy them
from under (CO)your heavens, O Lord.”[i]
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:14 Some manuscripts all peoples
- Lamentations 3:17 Hebrew good
- Lamentations 3:22 Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Because of the steadfast love of the Lord, we are not cut off
- Lamentations 3:53 Or they end my life in the pit
- Lamentations 3:64 Or Repay them
- Lamentations 3:65 Or Give them
- Lamentations 3:65 Or place your curse
- Lamentations 3:66 Or Pursue them
- Lamentations 3:66 Syriac (compare Septuagint, Vulgate); Hebrew the heavens of the Lord
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