Lamentations Chapter 3

Jeremiah morns his own calamities

3:1 I [am] the man [that] has seen affliction by the rod of His fury.
3:2 He has led me, and driven me into darkness, but not into light.
3:3 Only against me did He turn His hand all day long.
3:4 He has worn away my skin and flesh; He has broken my bones.
3:5 He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
3:6 He has placed me in darkness like those who are long dead.
3:7 He has walled me in, so that I can’t escape: He has weighed me down with chains.
3:8 Even when I cry out pleading for help, He shuts out my prayer.
3:9 He has walled up my roadsדְּרָכַי‎
Transliteration: dᵊrāḵay – my ways, my roads, my paths, my routes, my distances, my journeys, my manners For more info click here with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
3:10 He is like a bear lurking for me, like a lion in hiding.
3:11 He has removed my pathsדְּרָכַי‎
Transliteration: dᵊrāḵay – my ways, my roads, my paths, my routes, my distances, my journeys, my manners For more info click here, and torn me in pieces: He made me desolate.
3:12 He bent his bow and set me up like a target for the arrow.
3:13 He shot into my vital organs the arrows of His quiver.
3:14 I have become a laughing stock to all my people; and the object of their taunts all day long.
3:15 He has filled me with bitterness, sated me with wormwood.
3:16 He has ground my teeth on gravel, He made me cower in ashes.
3:17 My soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being, my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here deprived of [having] peaceמִשָּׁלוֹם‎
Transliteration miššālôm from shalom – completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, well being, wholeness, prosperity For more info click here: I forgotten goodnessטוֹבָה
Transliteration: ṭôḇâ – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, × fair. For more info click here.
3:18 And I think, Lost is my strength and my hope from YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here:
3:19 Remembering my afflictions and my sorrow, the wormwood and the bitterness.
3:20 My soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being, my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here still remembers them, and makes me depressed.
3:21 This I bear in mind, So I still have hope:

Jeremiah nourishes hope

3:22 that the kindness of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here hasn’t ended, or are His mercies exhausted.
3:23 They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
3:24 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here is my share, says my soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî – Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being, my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here; So I will put my hope in him.
3:25 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here is goodטוֹב
Transliteration:ṭôḇ Pronunciation:tobe – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair. For more info click here to those that wait for Him, to the soulלְנֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration: lᵊnep̄eš Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Absolute – Meaning: to the soul, to the life, to the creature, to the person, to the appetite, to the mind, to the living being, to the desire, to the emotion, to the passion – For more info click here [that] seeks Him.
3:26 It’s goodטוֹב
Transliteration:ṭôḇ Pronunciation:tobe – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, × fair. For more info click here that a man should both hope and quietly wait salvationלִתְשׁוּעַת‎
Transliteration: liṯšûʿaṯ – Hebrew Noun: Common Feminine Singular Construct – rescue (literal or figurative, persons, national or spiritual):—deliverance, help, safety, salvation, victory. For more info click here of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
3:27 It’s goodטוֹב
Transliteration:ṭôḇ Pronunciation:tobe – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease,  fair. For more info click here for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
3:28 Let him sit alone in silence, because He has laid it on him.
3:29 Let him put his mouth in the dust;  there may yet be hope.
3:30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who strikes it: Let him be filled with insults.
3:31 Because rejection by YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here doesn’t last forever:
3:32 He may cause grief, but he will take pity, according to His abundant kindness.
3:33 Because He doesn’t torment arbitrarily or punish human beings.
3:34 To crush under His feet all the prisoners of the earth.
3:35 to deny a man justiceמִשְׁפָּט‎
Transliteration: mišpāṭ – properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant’s) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant’s right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style:— adversary, ceremony, charge custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence. For more info click here in the presence of the most High,
3:36 to wrong a man in his lawsuit, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here doesn’t approve.
3:37 Who can say something and have it happen without YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here commanding it?
3:38 Isn’t it from the mouth of the most High that evil and goodוְהַטּוֹב
Transliteration: vᵊhaṭṭôḇ – good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):—beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair. For more info click here emanate?

3:39 Of what does a living man complain, a man for his sinsחֲטָאָיו
Transliteration: ḥăṭā’āyv – A primitive root From an archery term meaning to miss the mark – For more info click here!
3:40 Let us search and examine our waysדְרָכֵינוּ
Transliteration: ḏᵊrāḵênû – our ways, our roads, our distances, our journeys, our manners, my paths, my directions, toward ours – For more info click here, and return to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
3:41 Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to EL אֵל
Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale — masculine noun — God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here in the heavensבַּשָּׁמָיִם‎
Transliteration: baššāmāyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here.
3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: you haven’t forgiven.
3:43 You have covered Yourself with anger and pursued us and slaughtered without compassion.
3:44 You have wrapped Yourself with a cloud prayer can’t pass through.
3:45 You have made us garbage and refuse among the people.
3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
3:47 Panic and pitfall were ours, ruin and destruction.
3:48 My eye runs with streams of water at the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3:49 My eye trickles down, and doesn’t stop, without relief.
3:50 Till YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here looks down, and sees from the heavensמִשָּׁמָיִם‎
Transliteration: miššāmāyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – from the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, from the sky, from the atmosphere For more info click here.
3:51 My eyes have brought me grief because of all the daughters of my city.
3:52 For no reason my enemies hunted me like a bird.
3:53 They cut off my life in a pit, and threw stones at me.
3:54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am doomed.

Prayer for deliverance

3:55 I called on your name, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, out of the pit.
3:56 You have heard my voice: don’t hide your ear to [my prayer for] my relief, to my cry.
3:57 You drew near on the day that I called on You: You said, Don’t be afraid.
3:58 O Adonaiהָאָדוֹן
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here, you have pleaded the causes of my soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî – Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being, my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here; you have redeemed my life.
3:59 You have seen O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here,  I have been wronged: judge my cause.
3:60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their plots against me.
3:61 You have heard their insults, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and all their plots against me;
3:62 The speech of those that rose up against me, and their thoughts against me all day long.
3:63 See their sitting down, and their rising up; I am the butt of their taunts.
3:64 Pay them back their due, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, for the deeds they have done.
3:65 Give them a broken heart, may Your curse be on them.
3:66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.