Lamentations · Geneva Bible (1599)
Lamentations 3 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.
1 YO soy el hombre que ha visto aflicción en la vara de su enojo.
2 He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.
2 Guióme y llevóme en tinieblas, mas no en luz.
3 Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.
3 Ciertamente contra mí volvió y revolvió su mano todo el día.
4 My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.
4 Hizo envejecer mi carne y mi piel; quebrantó mis huesos.
5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
5 Edificó contra mí, y cercóme de tósigo y de trabajo.
6 He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.
6 Asentóme en oscuridades, como los ya muertos de mucho tiempo.
7 He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.
7 Cercóme por todos lados, y no puedo salir; agravó mis grillos.
8 Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.
8 Aun cuando clamé y dí voces, cerro [los oídos á] mi oración.
9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
9 Cercó mis caminos con piedra tajada, torció mis senderos.
10 He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.
10 Como oso que acecha fué para mí, como león en escondrijos.
11 He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
11 Torció mis caminos, y depedazóme; tornóme asolado.
12 He hath bent his bow and made me a marke for the arrow.
12 Su arco entesó, y púsome como blanco á la saeta.
13 Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.
13 Hizo entrar en mis riñones las saetas de su aljaba.
14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
14 Fuí escarnio á todo mi pueblo, canción de ellos todos los días.
15 He hath filled me with bitternes, and made me drunken with wormewood.
15 Hartóme de amarguras, embriagóme de ajenjos.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
16 Quebróme los dientes con cascajo, cubrióme de ceniza.
17 Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,
17 Y mi alma se alejó de la paz, olvidéme del bien.
18 And I saide, My strength and mine hope is perished from the Lord,
18 Y dije: Pereció mi fortaleza, y mi esperanza de Jehová.
19 Remembring mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.
19 Acuérdate de mi aflicción y de mi abatimiento, del ajenjo y de la hiel.
20 My soule hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
20 Tendrálo aún en memoria mi alma, porque en mí está humillada.
21 I consider this in mine heart: therefore haue I hope.
21 Esto reduciré á mi corazón, por lo cual esperaré.
22 It is the Lordes mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
22 [Es por] la misericordia de Jehová que no somos consumidos, porque nunca decayeron sus misericordias.
23 They are renued euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.
23 Nuevas son cada mañana; grande es tu fidelidad.
24 The Lord is my portion, sayth my soule: therefore wil I hope in him.
24 Mi parte es Jehová, dijo mi alma; por tanto en él esperaré.
25 The Lord is good vnto them, that trust in him, and to the soule that seeketh him.
25 Bueno es Jehová á los que en él esperan, al alma que le buscare.
26 It is good both to trust, and to waite for the saluation of the Lord.
26 Bueno es esperar callando en la salud de Jehová.
27 It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth.
27 Bueno es al hombre, si llevare el yugo desde su mocedad.
28 He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it vpon him.
28 Sentaráse solo, y callará, porque lo llevó sobre sí.
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope.
29 Pondrá su boca en el polvo, por si quizá hay esperanza.
30 Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproches.
30 Dará la mejilla al que le hiriere; hartaráse de afrenta.
31 For the Lord will not forsake for euer.
31 Porque el Señor no desechará para siempre:
32 But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
32 Antes si afligiere, también se compadecerá según la multitud de sus misericordias.
33 For he doeth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children of men,
33 Porque no aflige ni congoja de su corazón á los hijos de los hombres.
34 In stamping vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,
34 Desmenuzar bajo de sus pies todos los encarcelados de la tierra,
35 In ouerthrowing the right of a man before the face of the most high,
35 Hacer apartar el derecho del hombre ante la presencia del Altísimo,
36 In subuerting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not.
36 Trastornar al hombre en su causa, el Señor no lo sabe.
37 Who is he then that sayth, and it commeth to passe, and the Lord commandeth it not?
37 ¿Quién [será] aquel que diga, que vino [algo] que el Señor no mandó?
38 Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not euill and good?
38 ¿De la boca del Altísimo no saldrá malo y bueno?
39 Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.
39 ¿Por qué murmura el hombre viviente, el hombre en su pecado?
40 Let vs search and try our wayes, and turne againe to the Lord.
40 Escudriñemos nuestros caminos, y busquemos, y volvámonos á Jehová.
41 Let vs lift vp our hearts with our handes vnto God in the heauens.
41 Levantemos nuestros corazones con las manos á Dios en los cielos.
42 We haue sinned, and haue rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.
42 Nosotros nos hemos rebelado, y fuimos desleales; tú no perdonaste.
43 Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.
43 Desplegaste la ira, y nos perseguiste; mataste, no perdonaste.
44 Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.
44 Te cubriste de nube, porque no pasase la oración [nuestra].
45 Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.
45 Raedura y abominación nos tornaste en medio de los pueblos.
46 All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs.
46 Todos nuestros enemigos abrieron sobre nosotros su boca.
47 Feare, and a snare is come vpon vs with desolation and destruction.
47 Temor y lazo fué para nosotros, asolamiento y quebrantamiento.
48 Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
48 Ríos de aguas echan mis ojos, por el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo.
49 Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not,
49 Mis ojos destilan, y no cesan, porque no hay alivio,
50 Till the Lord looke downe, and beholde from heauen.
50 Hasta que Jehová mire y vea desde los cielos.
51 Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.
51 Mis ojos contristaron mi alma, por todas las hijas de mi ciudad.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.
52 Mis enemigos me dieron caza como á ave, sin por qué.
53 They haue shut vp my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.
53 Ataron mi vida en mazmorra, pusieron piedra sobre mí.
54 Waters flowed ouer mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.
54 Aguas de avenida vinieron sobre mi cabeza; yo dije: Muerto soy.
55 I called vpon thy Name, O Lord, out of the lowe dungeon.
55 Invoqué tu nombre, oh Jehová, desde la cárcel profunda.
56 Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.
56 Oiste mi voz; no escondas tu oído á mi clamor, para mi respiro.
57 Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saydest, Feare not.
57 Acercástete el día que te invoqué: dijiste: No temas.
58 O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my life.
58 Abogaste, Señor, la causa de mi alma; redimiste mi vida.
59 O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.
59 Tú has visto, oh Jehová, mi agravio; defiende mi causa.
60 Thou hast seene all their vengeance, and all their deuises against me.
60 Tú has visto toda su venganza; todos sus pensamientos contra mí.
61 Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:
61 Tú has oído el oprobio de ellos, oh Jehová, todas sus maquinaciones contra mí;
62 The lippes also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.
62 Los dichos de los que contra mí se levantaron, y su designio contra mí todo el día.
63 Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.
63 Su sentarse, y su levantarse mira: yo soy su canción.
64 Giue them a recompence, O Lord, according to the worke of their handes.
64 Dales el pago, oh Jehová, según la obra de sus manos.
65 Giue them sorow of heart, euen thy curse to them.
65 Dales ansia de corazón, tu maldición á ellos.
66 Persecute with wrath and destroy them from vnder the heauen, O Lord.
66 Persíguelos en tu furor, y quebrántalos de debajo de los cielos, oh Jehová.
Cross references (65)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 88:7; Job 19:21; Psalm 88:15–16; Isaiah 53:3; Psalm 71:20
- 2 Job 30:26; Isaiah 59:9; Amos 5:18–20; Jeremiah 4:23; Jude 13
- 3 Isaiah 63:10; Lamentations 2:4–7; Deuteronomy 29:20; Isaiah 1:25; Isaiah 5:25
- 4 Psalm 51:8; Isaiah 38:13; Psalm 38:2–8; Jeremiah 50:17; Psalm 31:9–10
- 5 Lamentations 3:19; Jeremiah 23:15; Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7–9; Jeremiah 8:14
- 6 Psalm 88:5–6; Psalm 143:3; Psalm 143:7
- 7 Job 19:8; Job 3:23; Jeremiah 38:6; Psalm 88:8; Jeremiah 40:4
- 8 Job 30:20; Psalm 22:2; Job 19:7; Matthew 27:46; Lamentations 3:44
- 9 Isaiah 63:17; Hosea 2:6; Isaiah 30:28; Lamentations 3:11
- 10 Hosea 6:1; Psalm 10:9; Amos 5:18–20; Job 10:16; Hosea 5:14
- 11 Hosea 6:1; Job 16:12–13; Lamentations 1:13; Daniel 7:23; Jeremiah 19:8
- 12 Psalm 38:2; Job 7:20; Lamentations 2:4; Job 6:4; Psalm 7:12–13
- 13 Job 6:4; Deuteronomy 32:23; Job 41:28
- 14 Jeremiah 20:7; Lamentations 3:63; Psalm 22:6–7; Nehemiah 4:2–4; Psalm 123:3–4
- 15 Jeremiah 9:15; Lamentations 3:19; Ruth 1:20; Jeremiah 25:15–18; Isaiah 51:17–22
- 16 Proverbs 20:17; Jeremiah 6:26; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 58:6; Luke 11:11
- 17 Isaiah 59:11; Genesis 41:30; Lamentations 1:16; Isaiah 38:17; Jeremiah 8:15
- 18 Job 17:15; 1 Samuel 27:1; Ezekiel 37:11; Psalm 31:22; Psalm 116:11
- 19 Lamentations 3:15; Lamentations 3:5; Job 7:7; Psalm 89:50; Psalm 132:1
- 20 Psalm 42:5–6; Psalm 42:11; Job 21:6; Psalm 43:5; Psalm 146:8
- 21 Habakkuk 2:3; Psalm 130:7; Psalm 77:7–11; Lamentations 3:24–29; Psalm 119:81
- 22 Psalm 86:15; Luke 1:50; Nehemiah 9:31; Micah 7:18–19; Malachi 3:6
- 23 Hebrews 10:23; Psalm 30:5; Isaiah 33:2; Psalm 36:5; Psalm 89:33
- 24 Psalm 73:26; Psalm 16:5; Psalm 142:5; Lamentations 3:21; Psalm 33:18
- 25 Micah 7:7–8; Isaiah 40:31; Psalm 130:5–6; Lamentations 3:26; Psalm 37:34
- 26 Psalm 37:7; Psalm 37:34; Psalm 130:5; Genesis 49:18; Hebrews 10:35
- 27 Ecclesiastes 12:1; Matthew 11:29–30; Psalm 119:71; Psalm 94:12; Psalm 90:12
- 28 Jeremiah 15:17; Lamentations 2:10; Psalm 39:9; Psalm 102:7
- 29 Job 40:4; Luke 15:18–19; Jeremiah 31:17; Luke 18:13; Zephaniah 2:3
- 30 Isaiah 50:6; Job 16:10; Matthew 5:39; Matthew 26:67; 2 Corinthians 11:20
- 31 Psalm 94:14; Psalm 103:8–10; Psalm 77:7; Isaiah 54:7–10; Isaiah 57:16
- 32 Psalm 78:38; Psalm 30:5; Psalm 103:11; Hosea 11:8; Judges 10:16
- 33 Ezekiel 33:11; Ezekiel 18:32; Hebrews 12:9–10; Isaiah 28:21
- 34 Zechariah 9:11–12; Isaiah 51:22–23; Psalm 102:20; Jeremiah 51:33–36; Psalm 69:33
- 36 Isaiah 59:15; Habakkuk 1:13; Jeremiah 22:3; 2 Samuel 11:27
- 37 Psalm 33:9–11; Proverbs 16:9; Isaiah 46:10; Proverbs 19:21; Proverbs 21:30
- 38 Isaiah 45:7; Amos 3:6; Jeremiah 32:42; Job 2:10; Psalm 75:7
- 39 Proverbs 19:3; Micah 7:9; Jeremiah 30:15; Genesis 4:5–7; 2 Kings 3:13
- 40 2 Corinthians 13:5; Psalm 139:23–24; Joel 2:12–13; Psalm 4:4; Isaiah 55:7
- 41 Psalm 25:1; Psalm 28:2; Psalm 86:4; Psalm 143:6–8; 1 Thessalonians 2:8
- 42 Nehemiah 9:26; Jeremiah 5:7–9; Luke 15:18–19; Zechariah 1:5; 2 Kings 24:4
- 43 Lamentations 2:21; Lamentations 2:17; Lamentations 2:1–2; Lamentations 3:66; Psalm 83:15
- 44 Lamentations 3:8; Zechariah 7:13; Psalm 97:2; Jeremiah 15:1; Jeremiah 14:11
- 45 1 Corinthians 4:13; Lamentations 4:14–15; Deuteronomy 28:44; Deuteronomy 28:37; Lamentations 3:14
- 46 Lamentations 2:16; Psalm 22:6–8; Psalm 79:10; Exodus 11:7; Psalm 44:13–14
- 47 Isaiah 24:17–18; Isaiah 51:19; Jeremiah 48:43–44; Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 1:13
- 48 Jeremiah 9:18; Lamentations 2:11; Jeremiah 9:1; Psalm 119:136; Lamentations 1:16
- 49 Jeremiah 14:17; Psalm 77:2; Lamentations 1:16
- 50 Isaiah 63:15; Psalm 80:14–16; Lamentations 5:1; Psalm 102:19–20; Lamentations 2:20
- 51 Jeremiah 19:9; Luke 19:41–44; 1 Samuel 30:3–4; Lamentations 2:21; Jeremiah 14:16
- 52 Psalm 35:19; Psalm 35:7; Jeremiah 38:4–6; Psalm 69:4; John 15:25
- 53 Jeremiah 38:6; Daniel 6:17; Jeremiah 38:9; Jeremiah 37:16; Matthew 27:66
- 54 Jonah 2:3–5; Ezekiel 37:11; Psalm 18:4; Psalm 69:1–2; 2 Corinthians 1:8–10
- 55 Acts 16:24–28; Psalm 40:1–2; 2 Chronicles 33:11–12; Psalm 130:1–2; Jonah 2:2–4
- 56 Job 34:28; Isaiah 38:5; Psalm 55:1; Psalm 6:8–9; Psalm 34:6
- 57 James 4:8; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 58:9; Isaiah 41:14; Revelation 2:10
- 58 Psalms 34:22–35:1; Jeremiah 51:36; Psalm 103:4; Jeremiah 50:34; Psalm 71:23
- 59 Psalm 43:1; Psalm 9:4; Genesis 31:42; Psalm 26:1; 1 Peter 2:23
- 60 Jeremiah 11:19–20; Lamentations 3:59; Psalm 10:14
- 61 Lamentations 5:1; Psalm 89:50; Zephaniah 2:8; Psalm 74:18; Lamentations 3:30
- 62 Ezekiel 36:3; Psalm 59:7; Psalm 59:12; Psalm 140:3; Jeremiah 18:18
- 63 Psalm 139:2; Lamentations 3:14; Job 30:9
- 64 Psalm 28:4; Jeremiah 11:20; Revelation 6:10; 2 Timothy 4:14; Jeremiah 50:29
- 65 Isaiah 6:10; Deuteronomy 2:30; 1 Corinthians 16:22; Psalm 109:17–18; Deuteronomy 27:15–26
- 66 Psalm 8:3; Psalm 115:16; Lamentations 3:43; Deuteronomy 25:19; Jeremiah 10:11
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Again another Prophet says, They cut off My life in a dungeon, and cast a stone upon Me.
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To us who are (as Jeremiah saith), "prisoners of the earth," and covered with the denseness of carnal nature, this at all events is known, that as it is impossible for a man to step over his own shadow, however fast he may move (for the shadow will always move on as fast as it is being overtaken) or, as …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)