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== Eichah (Book of Lamentations), Chapter 3 ==

<named id="1"/>1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

<named id="2"/>2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.

<named id="3"/>3 Surely against me He turneth His hand again and again all the day.

<named id="4"/>4 My flesh and my skin hath He worn out; He hath broken my bones.

<named id="5"/>5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

<named id="6"/>6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

<named id="7"/>7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth; He hath made my chain heavy.

<named id="8"/>8 Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.

<named id="9"/>9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.

<named id="10"/>10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

<named id="11"/>11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.

<named id="12"/>12 He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

<named id="13"/>13 He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.

<named id="14"/>14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

<named id="15"/>15 He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.

<named id="16"/>16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.

<named id="17"/>17 And my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity.

<named id="18"/>18 And I said: 'My strength is perished, and mine expectation from HaShem.'

<named id="19"/>19 Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.

<named id="20"/>20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

<named id="21"/>21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

<named id="22"/>22 Surely HaShem'S mercies are not consumed, surely His compassions fail not.

<named id="23"/>23 They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.

<named id="24"/>24 'The HaShem is my portion', saith my soul; 'Therefore will I hope in Him.'

<named id="25"/>25 HaShem is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.

<named id="26"/>26 It is good that a man should quietly wait for the salvation of HaShem.

<named id="27"/>27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

<named id="28"/>28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because He hath laid it upon him.

<named id="29"/>29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

<named id="30"/>30 Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him let him be filled full with reproach.

<named id="31"/>31 For the L-rd will not cast off for ever.

<named id="32"/>32 For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.

<named id="33"/>33 For He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

<named id="34"/>34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

<named id="35"/>35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

<named id="36"/>36 To subvert a man in his cause, the L-rd approveth not.

<named id="37"/>37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the L-rd commandeth it not?

<named id="38"/>38 Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good?

<named id="39"/>39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a strong man because of his sins?

<named id="40"/>40 Let us search and try our ways, and return to HaShem.

<named id="41"/>41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto G-d in the heavens.

<named id="42"/>42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.

<named id="43"/>43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.

<named id="44"/>44 Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

<named id="45"/>45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

<named id="46"/>46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

<named id="47"/>47 Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.

<named id="48"/>48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the breach of the daughter of my people.

<named id="49"/>49 Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

<named id="50"/>50 Till HaShem look forth, and behold from heaven.

<named id="51"/>51 Mine eye affected my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

<named id="52"/>52 They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine enemies without cause.

<named id="53"/>53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones upon me.

<named id="54"/>54 Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'

<named id="55"/>55 I called upon Thy name, O HaShem, Out of the lowest dungeon.

<named id="56"/>56 Thou heardest my voice; hide not Thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.

<named id="57"/>57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst: 'Fear not.'

<named id="58"/>58 O L-rd, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; Thou hast redeemed my life.

<named id="59"/>59 O HaShem, Thou hast seen my wrong; judge Thou my cause.

<named id="60"/>60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

<named id="61"/>61 Thou hast heard their taunt, O HaShem, and all their devices against me;

<named id="62"/>62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their muttering against me all the day.

<named id="63"/>63 Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

<named id="64"/>64 Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O HaShem, according to the work of their hands.

<named id="65"/>65 Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, Thy curse unto them.

<named id="66"/>66 Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of HaShem.

== See also ==
* [[Eichah 2|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Eichah 3 Commentaries]]
* [[Eichah 4|Next Chapter]]

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