Lamentations 3:1 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ ALEPH. I am the man that sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me.

²¹ Pity me, pity me, O friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

²⁰ The hymns of David the son of Jessae are ended.

⁷ God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. ¹⁶ And in your name shall they rejoice all the day: and in your righteousness shall they be exalted.

³ But his form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; [he was] a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness, for his face is turned from [us]: he was dishonored, and not esteemed.

¹⁷ I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of your power: I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness. ¹⁸ Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? my wound is severe; whence shall I be healed? it is indeed become to me as deceitful water, that has no faithfulness.

¹⁴ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to you. ¹⁶ Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon; ¹⁷ because he killed me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me. ¹⁸ Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

⁶ For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, [saying], Arise you⌃, and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.

¹² LAMED. All you⌃ that pass by the way, turn, and see if there is sorrow like to my sorrow, which has happened [to me]. The Lord who spoke by me has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. ¹³ MEM. He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, he has brought it into my bones: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate [and] mourning all the day. ¹⁴ NUN. He has watched over my sins, they are twined about my hands, they have come up on my neck: my strength has failed; for the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand.