Lamentations 3 Comparison: Douay-Rheims vs King James Version

Lamentations 3

¹Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

²Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

³Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

⁴Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

⁵Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.

⁶Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.

⁷Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

⁸Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

⁹Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

¹⁰Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

¹¹Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.

¹²Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

¹³He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.

¹⁴He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.

¹⁵He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.

¹⁶Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

¹⁷Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.

¹⁸Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.

¹⁹Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.

²⁰Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.

²¹Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.

²²Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

²³Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.

²⁴Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

²⁵Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

²⁶Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

²⁷Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.

²⁸Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

²⁹Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

³⁰Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

³¹Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

³²Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.

³³Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

³⁴Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

³⁵Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,

³⁶Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.

³⁷Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

³⁸Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?

³⁹Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?

⁴⁰Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.

⁴¹Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.

⁴²Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.

⁴³Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.

⁴⁴Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

⁴⁵Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.

⁴⁶Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

⁴⁷Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.

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

⁴⁹Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:

⁵⁰Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.

⁵¹Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

⁵²Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

⁵³Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.

⁵⁴Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

⁵⁵Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

⁵⁶Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

⁵⁷Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.

⁵⁸Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.

⁵⁹Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.

⁶⁰Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.

⁶¹Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.

⁶²Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

⁶³Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.

⁶⁴Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

⁶⁵Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.

⁶⁶Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

Lamentations 3

¹I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

²He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

³Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

⁴My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

⁶He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

⁷He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

⁸Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

⁹He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

¹⁰He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

¹¹He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

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

¹³He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

¹⁴I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

¹⁵He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

¹⁶He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

¹⁷And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

¹⁸And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

²⁰My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

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

²²It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

²⁴The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

²⁵The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

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

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

²⁸He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

³⁰He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

³¹For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

³²But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

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

³⁴To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

³⁵To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

³⁶To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

³⁷Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

³⁸Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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

⁴¹Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

⁴²We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

⁴³Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

⁴⁴Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

⁴⁵Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

⁴⁶All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

⁴⁷Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

⁴⁸Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁴⁹Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

⁵⁰Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

⁵¹Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

⁵²Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

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

⁵⁴Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

⁵⁵I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

⁵⁶Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

⁵⁷Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

⁵⁸O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

⁵⁹O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

⁶⁰Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

⁶¹Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

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

⁶³Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

⁶⁴Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

⁶⁵Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

⁶⁶Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.