Ağıtlar 3

¹Ben, O'nun gazap değneği altında yoksulluk görmüş bir adamım.

²Beni yanına aldı ve ışığa değil, karanlığa sürükledi.

³Gerçekten de bütün gün boyunca elini tekrar tekrar bana karşı çevirdi.

⁴Etimi ve derimi yaşlandırıp yıprattı, kemiklerimi kırdı.

⁵Bana karşı surlar ördü, başımı kuşatıp bana zahmet verdi.

⁶Beni, çağlar öncesinin ölüleri gibi karanlık yerlerde oturttu.

⁷Çıkamayayım diye etrafıma duvar ördü, tuncumu ağırlaştırdı.

⁸Hatta haykırıp feryat etsem bile duamı engelledi.

⁹Yollarımı duvarla kapattı, patikalarımı tıkadı, beni şaşırttı.

¹⁰Benim için pusuda bekleyen bir dişi ayı, gizli yerlerdeki bir aslan gibi oldu.

¹¹Yoldan sapan beni kovaladı ve durdurdu, beni harap edilmiş olarak bıraktı.

¹²Yayını gerdi ve beni ok için bir hedef olarak sabitledi.

¹³Sadağının oklarını böbreklerimin içine soktu.

¹⁴Bütün halkıma alay konusu oldum, bütün gün dillerinden düşmeyen şarkısı oldum.

¹⁵Beni acıyla doyurdu, safra ile sarhoş etti.

¹⁶Dişlerimi çakıl taşıyla söktü, beni külle besledi.

¹⁷Ve canımı esenlikten uzağa itti, iyi şeyleri unuttum.

¹⁸Ve dedim ki: "Zaferim ve Rab'den olan umudum yok oldu."

¹⁹Yoksulluğumu, sürgünümü, acımı ve saframı hatırladım.

²⁰Canım bunları sürekli hatırlayacak ve üzerime çökecek.

²¹Bunu yüreğime koyacağım, bu yüzden sabırla bekleyeceğim.

²²Rab'bin merhametleri sayesinde tükenmedim, çünkü O'nun acımaları son bulmaz; sabahların ayları boyunca merhamet et ey Rab, çünkü biz yok olmadık, çünkü O'nun acımaları son bulmaz.

²³Sabahlar için yenidirler onlar, sadakatin büyüktür.

²⁴Canım, "Benim payım Rab'dir" dedi, "Bu yüzden O'nu sabırla bekleyeceğim."

²⁵Rab Kendisini bekleyenlere karşı iyidir, Kendisini arayacak olan cana karşı iyidir.

²⁶Ve sabırla bekleyecek ve sessiz kalacak Rab'bin kurtarışı için.

²⁷Bir adam için gençliğinde boyunduruk kaldırması iyidir.

²⁸Tek başına oturacak ve sessiz kalacak, çünkü bunu kendi üzerine kaldırdı.

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³⁰Kendisine vurana yanağını verecek, hakarete doyacak.

³¹Çünkü Rab sonsuza dek uzağa itmeyecektir.

³²Çünkü alçaltan O olsa bile, bol merhameti uyarınca yine merhamet edecektir.

³³Çünkü O, yüreğinden isteyerek insan oğullarını alçaltmadı ve onları kedere boğmadı.

³⁴Yeryüzünün bütün tutsaklarının ayaklar altında alçaltılmasını,

³⁵Yüceler Yücesi'nin huzurunda bir adamın davasının saptırılmasını,

³⁶İnsan davasında yargılanırken onu mahkum etmeyi Rab onaylamadı.

³⁷Rab buyurmadıkça kim böyle söyledi de gerçekleşti?

³⁸Yüceler Yücesi'nin ağzından kötülükler ve iyilik çıkmaz mı?

³⁹Yaşayan insan, bir adam kendi günahı hakkında neden şikayet edip dursun?

⁴⁰Yolumuz araştırıldı ve incelendi, ve Rab'be döneceğiz.

⁴¹Yüreklerimizi ellerimizin üzerinde gökteki Yüce Olan'a kaldıralım.

⁴²Günah işledik, saygısızlık ettik ve Sen bağışlamadın.

⁴³Öfkeyle üzerimizi örttün ve bizi kovaladın; öldürdün, acımadın.

⁴⁴Dua ulaşmasın diye kendine bir bulut örttün.

⁴⁵Bizi halkların ortasında göz yummaya ve uzağa itilmeye maruz bıraktın.

⁴⁶Bütün düşmanlarımız bize karşı ağızlarını açtılar.

⁴⁷Korku ve öfke geldi bize, gurur ve yıkım.

⁴⁸Gözüm halkımın kızının yıkımı üzerine su akıntıları indirecek.

⁴⁹Gözüm tükendi ve bir dinme olmaması için sessiz kalmayacağım,

⁵⁰Ta ki Rab gökten eğilip bakana ve görene dek.

⁵¹Gözüm kentin bütün kızlarından ötürü canımın üzerinde yaprak dökecek.

⁵²Bütün düşmanlarım beni sebepsiz yere bir serçe gibi avlayarak avladılar.

⁵³Çukurda hayatımı ölüme mahkum ettiler ve üzerime bir taş koydular.

⁵⁴Su başımın üzerine taştı; dedim ki: "Uzağa itildim."

⁵⁵En derin çukurdan Senin adına seslendim, ey Rab.

⁵⁶Sesimi işittin; kulaklarını benim yakarışımdan gizleme.

⁵⁷Sana seslendiğim günde yardımıma yaklaştın; bana dedin ki: "Korkma."

⁵⁸Ya Rab, canımın davalarını savundun, hayatımı kurtardın.

⁵⁹Ya Rab, kargaşalarımı gördün, davamı karara bağladın.

⁶⁰Onların bütün öclerini, bana karşı olan bütün düşüncelerini gördün.

⁶¹Onların hakaretlerini, bana karşı olan bütün düşüncelerini işittin.

⁶²Bana karşı ayaklananlerin dudaklarını ve bütün gün bana karşı olan tasarılarını duydun.

⁶³Onların oturmalarına ve kalkmalarına bak; gözlerinin üzerine bak.

⁶⁴Onlara karşılığını vereceksin ey Rab, ellerinin işlerine göre.

⁶⁵Onlara yüreğin örtüsünü vereceksin, senin zahmetin onların üzerine olsun.

⁶⁶Öfkeyle onları kovalayacaksın ve göğün altından tamamen yok edeceksin ey Rab.

¹ΕΓΩ ἀνὴρ ὁ βλέπων πτωχείαν ἐν ῥάβδῳ θυμοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐπ’ ἐμέ·

²παρέλαβέ με καὶ ἀπήγαγέ με εἰς σκότος καὶ οὐ φῶς,

³πλὴν ἐν ἐμοὶ ἐπέστρεψε χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν.

⁴᾿Επαλαίωσε σάρκα μου καὶ δέρμα μου, ὀστέα μου συνέτριψεν·

⁵ἀῳκοδόμησε κατ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ ἐκύκλωσε κεφαλήν μου καὶ ἐμόχθησεν,

⁶ἐν σκοτεινοῖς ἐκάθισέ με ὡς νεκροὺς αἰῶνος.

⁷᾿Ανῳκοδόμησε κατ’ ἐμοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἐξελεύσομαι, ἐβάρυνε χαλκόν μου·

⁸καί γε κεκράξομαι καὶ βοήσω, ἀπέφραξε προσευχήν μου·

⁹ἀνῳκοδόμησεν ὁδούς μου, ἐνέφραξε τρίβους μου, ἐτάραξεν.

¹⁰῎Αρκος ἐνεδρεύουσα αὐτός μοι, λέων ἐν κρυφαίοις·

¹¹κατεδίωξεν ἀφεστηκότα καὶ κατέπαυσέ με, ἔθετό με ἠφανισμένην.

¹²ἐνέτεινε τόξον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐστήλωσέ με ὡς σκοπὸν εἰς βέλος.

¹³Εἰσήγαγεν ἐν τοῖς νεφροῖς μου ἰοὺς φαρέτρας αὐτοῦ·

¹⁴ἐγενήθην γέλως παντὶ λαῷ μου, ψαλμὸς αὐτῶν ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν·

¹⁵ἐχόρτασέ με πικρίας, ἐμέθυσέ με χολῆς.

¹⁶Καὶ ἐξέβαλε ψήφῳ ὀδόντας μου, ἐψώμισέ με σποδόν·

¹⁷καὶ ἀπώσατο ἐξ εἰρήνης ψυχήν μου,

¹⁸ἐπελαθόμην ἀγαθά, καὶ εἶπα· ἀπώλετο νῖκός μου καὶ ἡ ἐλπίς μου ἀπὸ Κυρίου.

¹⁹᾿Εμνήσθην ἀπὸ πτωχείας μου καὶ ἐκδιωγμοῦ μου πικρίας καὶ χολῆς μου.

²⁰μνησθήσεται καὶ καταδολεσχήσει ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἡ ψυχή μου·

²¹ταύτην τάξω εἰς τὴν καρδίαν μου, διὰ τοῦτο ὑπομενῶ.

²²Τὰ ἐλέη Κυρίου, ὅτι οὐκ ἐξέλιπέ με, ὅτι οὐ συνετελέσθησαν οἱ οἰκτιρμοὶ αὐτοῦ· μῆνας εἰς τὰς πρωΐας ἐλέησον, Κύριε, ὅτι οὐ συνετελέσθημεν, ὅτι οὐ συνετελέσθησαν οἱ οἰκτιρμοὶ αὐτοῦ.

²³καινὰ εἰς τὰς πρωΐας, πολλὴ ἡ πίστις σου.

²⁴μερίς μου Κύριος, εἶπεν ἡ ψυχή μου· διὰ τοῦτο ὑπομενῶ αὐτῷ. [*]

²⁵᾿Αγαθὸς Κύριος τοῖς ὑπομένουσιν αὐτόν, ψυχὴ ἣ ζητήσει αὐτὸν ἀγαθὸν

²⁶καὶ ὑπομενεῖ καὶ ἡσυχάσει εἰς τὸ σωτήριον Κυρίου.

²⁷ἀγαθὸν ἀνδρί, ὅταν ἄρῃ ζυγὸν ἐν νεότητι αὐτοῦ.

²⁸Καθήσεται κατὰ μόνας καὶ σιωπήσεται, ὅτι ᾖρεν ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ·

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³⁰δώσει τῷ παίοντι αὐτὸν σιαγόνα, χορτασθήσεται ὀνειδισμῶν.

³¹῞Οτι οὐκ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἀπώσεται Κύριος.

³²ὅτι ὁ ταπεινώσας οἰκτειρήσει κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ ἐλέους αὐτοῦ·

³³ὅτι οὐκ ἀπεκρίθη ἀπὸ καρδίας αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐταπείνωσεν υἱοὺς ἀνδρός.

³⁴Τοῦ ταπεινῶσαι ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ πάντας δεσμίους γῆς,

³⁵τοῦ ἐκκλῖναι κρίσιν ἀνδρὸς κατέναντι προσώπου ῾Υψίστου,

³⁶καταδικάσαι ἄνθρωπον ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαι αὐτὸν Κύριος οὐκ εἶπε.

³⁷Τίς οὕτως εἶπε, καὶ ἐγενήθη; Κύριος οὐκ ἐνετείλατο.

³⁸ἐκ στόματος ῾Υψίστου οὐκ ἐξελεύσεται τὰ κακὰ καὶ τὸ ἀγαθόν;

³⁹τί γογγύσει ἄνθρωπος ζῶν, ἀνὴρ περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας αὐτοῦ;

⁴⁰᾿Εξηρευνήθη ἡ ὁδὸς ἡμῶν καὶ ἠτάσθη, καὶ ἐπιστρέψομεν ἕως Κυρίου·

⁴¹ἀναλάβωμεν καρδίας ἡμῶν ἐπὶ χειρῶν πρὸς ὑψηλὸν ἐν οὐρανῷ·

⁴²ἡμαρτήσαμεν, ἠσεβήσαμεν, καὶ οὐχ ἱλάσθης.

⁴³᾿Επεσκέπασας ἐν θυμῷ καὶ ἀπεδίωξας ἡμᾶς· ἀπέκτεινας, οὐκ ἐφείσω.

⁴⁴᾿Επεσκέπασας νεφέλην σεαυτῷ ἕνεκεν προσευχῆς,

⁴⁵καμμύσαι με καὶ ἀπωσθῆναι ἔθηκας ἡμᾶς ἐν μέσῳ τῶν λαῶν.

⁴⁶Διήνοιξαν ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν πάντες οἱ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν·

⁴⁷φόβος καὶ θυμὸς ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν, ἔπαρσις καὶ συντριβή.

⁴⁸ἀφέσεις ὑδάτων κατάξει ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐπὶ τὸ σύντριμμα τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ λαοῦ μου.

⁴⁹῾Ο ὀφθαλμός μου κατεπόθη, καὶ οὐ σιγήσομαι τοῦ μὴ εἶναι ἔκνηψιν,

⁵⁰ἕως οὗ διακύψῃ καὶ ἴδῃ Κύριος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ·

⁵¹ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐπιφυλλιεῖ ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχήν μου παρὰ πάσας θυγατέρας πόλεως.

⁵²Θηρεύοντες ἐθήρευσάν με ὡς στρουθίον πάντες οἱ ἐχθροί μου δωρεάν,

⁵³ἐθανάτωσαν ἐν λάκκῳ ζωήν μου καὶ ἐπέθηκαν λίθον ἐπ’ ἐμοί.

⁵⁴ὑπερεχύθη ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν μου· εἶπα· ἀπῶσμαι.

⁵⁵᾿Επεκαλεσάμην τὸ ὄνομά σου, Κύριε, ἐκ λάκκου κατωτάτου·

⁵⁶φωνήν μου ἤκουσας· μὴ κρύψῃς τὰ ὦτά σου εἰς τὴν δέησίν μου.

⁵⁷εἰς τὴν βοήθειάν μου ἤγγισας ἐν ἡμέρᾳ, ᾗ ἐπεκαλεσάμην σε· εἶπάς μοι· μὴ φοβοῦ.

⁵⁸᾿Εδίκασας, Κύριε, τὰς δίκας τῆς ψυχῆς μου, ἐλυτρώσω τὴν ζωήν μου·

⁵⁹εἶδες, Κύριε, τὰς ταραχάς μου, ἔκρινας τὴν κρίσιν μου·

⁶⁰εἶδες πᾶσαν τὴν ἐκδίκησιν αὐτῶν εἰς πάντας διαλογισμοὺς αὐτῶν ἐν ἐμοί.

⁶¹῎Ηκουσας τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν αὐτῶν, πάντας τοὺς διαλογισμοὺς αὐτῶν κατ’ ἐμοῦ,

⁶²χείλη ἐπανισταμένων μοι καὶ μελέτας αὐτῶν κατ’ ἐμοῦ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν,

⁶³καθέδραν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀνάστασιν αὐτῶν· ἐπίβλεψον ἐπὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν.

⁶⁴᾿Αποδώσεις αὐτοῖς ἀνταπόδομα, Κύριε, κατὰ τὰ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν.

⁶⁵ἀποδώσεις αὐτοῖς ὑπερασπισμὸν καρδίας, μόχθον σου αὐτοῖας,

⁶⁶καταδιώξεις ἐν ὀργῇ καὶ ἐξαναλώσεις αὐτοὺς ὑποκάτωθεν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Κύριε. * For Lamentations 3, 22-24 you may like to read a study by Herb Swanson at swrktec.org

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

²He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not [into] light.

³Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day.

⁴He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones.

⁵He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail [upon me].

⁶He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead.

⁷He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen [chain] heavy.

⁸Yea, [though] I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

⁹He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;

¹⁰he has troubled me, [as] a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me [as] a lion in secret places.

¹¹He pursued [me] after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me.

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

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

¹⁴I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day.

¹⁵He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.

¹⁶And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.

¹⁷He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity.

¹⁸Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord.

¹⁹I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

²⁰and my soul shall meditate with me.

²¹This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure.

²²[It is] the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity [us], O Lord, early [every] month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted.

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

²⁴The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for him. [*]

²⁵The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him

²⁶[is] good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord.

²⁷[It is] good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth.

²⁸He will sit alone, and be silent, because he has borne [it] upon him.

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³⁰He will give [his] cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches.

³¹For the Lord will not reject for ever.

³²For he that has brought down will pity, and [that] according to the abundance of his mercy.

³³He has not answered [in anger] from his heart, though he has brought low the children of a man.

³⁴To bring down under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

³⁵to turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High,

³⁶to condemn a man [unjustly] in his judgment, the Lord has not given commandment.

³⁷Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? the Lord has not commanded it.

³⁸Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good.

³⁹Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin?

⁴⁰Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord.

⁴¹Let us lift up our hearts with [our] hand to the lofty One in heaven.

⁴²We have sinned, we have transgressed; and thou hast not pardoned.

⁴³Thou hast visited [us] in wrath, and driven us away: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

⁴⁴Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud because of prayer,

⁴⁵that I might be blind, and be cast off. Thou hast set us [alone] in the midst of the nations.

⁴⁶All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.

⁴⁷Fear and wrath are come upon us, suspense and destruction.

⁴⁸Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁴⁹Mine eye is drowned [with tears], and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest,

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

⁵¹Mine eye shall prey upon my soul, because of all the daughters of the city.

⁵²The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,

⁵³and laid a stone upon me.

⁵⁴Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.

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

⁵⁶Thou heardest my voice: close not thine ears to my supplication.

⁵⁷Thou drewest nigh to my help: in the day wherein I called upon thee thou saidst to me, Fear not.

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

⁵⁹Thou hast seen, O Lord, my troubles: thou hast judged my cause.

⁶⁰Thou hast seen all their vengeance, [thou hast looked] on all their devices against me.

⁶¹Thou hast heard their reproach [and] all their devices against me;

⁶²the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day;

⁶³their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes.

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

⁶⁵Thou wilt give them [as] a covering, the grief of my heart.

⁶⁶Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.