Lamentações 3— comparação

1Eu sou o homem que viu a aflição

2Ele me guiou e me fez andar na escuridão,

3Certamente ele volta a sua mão contra mim

4Ele fez envelhecer a minha carne e a minha pele.

5Ele construiu contra mim,

6Ele me fez habitar em lugares escuros,

7Ele me cercou com um muro, para que eu não possa sair.

8Sim, quando eu clamo e peço socorro,

9Ele bloqueou os meus caminhos com pedras lavradas.

10Ele é para mim como um urso à espreita,

11Ele desviou o meu caminho,

12Ele armou o seu arco,

13Ele fez com que as flechas da sua aljava entrassem nos meus rins.

14Eu me tornei motivo de zombaria para todo o meu povo,

15Ele me encheu de amargura.

16Ele também quebrou os meus dentes com cascalho.

17Você afastou a minha alma para longe da paz.

18Eu disse: “A minha força pereceu,

19Lembre-se da minha aflição e da minha miséria,

20A minha alma ainda se lembra deles,

21Eu trago isso à memória;

22É por causa das bondades do SENHOR que não somos consumidos,

23Elas se renovam a cada manhã.

24“O SENHOR é a minha porção”, diz a minha alma.

25O SENHOR é bom para aqueles que esperam por ele,

26É bom que o homem espere

27É bom para o homem suportar o jugo na sua juventude.

28Que ele se assente sozinho e fique em silêncio,

29Que ele ponha a sua boca no pó,

30Que ele dê a sua face àquele que o fere.

31Pois o Senhor não rejeitará para sempre.

32Pois, embora ele cause tristeza,

33Pois ele não aflige de bom grado,

34Esmagar debaixo dos pés todos os prisioneiros da terra,

35negar o direito de um homem perante a face do Altíssimo,

36subverter um homem em sua causa, o Senhor não aprova.

37Quem é aquele que fala, e isso acontece,

38Não procedem do Altíssimo tanto o mal quanto o bem?

39Por que um homem vivo deveria reclamar,

40Esquadrinhemos e provemos os nossos caminhos,

41Levantemos o nosso coração com as nossas mãos a Deus nos céus.

42“Nós transgredimos e nos rebelamos.

43“Você nos cobriu de ira e nos perseguiu.

44Você se cobriu com uma nuvem,

45Você nos tornou como escória e refugo

46“Todos os nossos inimigos abriram a boca contra nós.

47O terror e a cova vieram sobre nós,

48Os meus olhos derramam correntes de água,

49Os meus olhos choram

50até que o SENHOR olhe para baixo,

51Os meus olhos entristecem a minha alma,

52Eles me caçaram implacavelmente como a um pássaro,

53Eles cortaram a minha vida na masmorra,

54As águas fluíram sobre a minha cabeça.

55Eu clamei pelo seu nome, SENHOR,

56Você ouviu a minha voz:

57Você se aproximou no dia em que eu clamei a você.

58Senhor, você defendeu as causas da minha alma.

59SENHOR, você viu a injustiça feita a mim.

60Você viu toda a vingança deles

61Você ouviu as ofensas deles, SENHOR,

62os lábios daqueles que se levantaram contra mim,

63Você vê o assentar e o levantar deles.

64Você lhes dará a retribuição, SENHOR,

65Você lhes dará dureza de coração,

66Você os perseguirá com ira,

1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

3Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.

4He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

5He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

7He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

9He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.

11He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

14I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

15He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

16He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

17You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.

18I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

20My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

21This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

22It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.

23They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

24“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

25Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

30Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

31For the Lord will not cast off forever.

32For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

33For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

34To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

35to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

36to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

38Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

39Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

41Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

42“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.

43“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.

44You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.

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

47Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”

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

49My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

50until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.

51My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

52They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

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

55I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.

56You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”

57You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

58Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.

59Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

60You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.

61You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,

62the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

63You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.

64You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

65You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

66You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.