diff --git a/25-LAM.usfm b/25-LAM.usfm index 52cbc996..5685c7d1 100644 --- a/25-LAM.usfm +++ b/25-LAM.usfm @@ -388,7 +388,6 @@ s5 \q \v 1 I am a man who has seen affliction \q2 under the rod of Yahweh's fury. -\b \q \v 2 He drove me away and caused me to walk \q2 in darkness rather than light. @@ -396,7 +395,6 @@ s5 \q \v 3 Surely he turned his hand against me again and again, \q2 the whole day long. -\b \q \v 4 He made my flesh and my skin waste away; \q2 he broke my bones. @@ -405,7 +403,6 @@ s5 \q \v 5 He built up siege works against me, \q2 and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. -\b \q \v 6 He made me live in dark places, \q2 like those who died long ago. @@ -413,7 +410,6 @@ s5 \q \v 7 He built a wall around me and I cannot escape. \q2 He made my chains heavy -\b \q \v 8 and though I call out and cry for help, \q2 he shut out my prayer. @@ -422,7 +418,6 @@ s5 \q \v 9 He blocked my path with a wall of hewn stone; \q2 he made my paths crooked. -\b \q \v 10 He is like a bear waiting to ambush me, \q2 a lion in hiding; @@ -430,7 +425,6 @@ s5 \q \v 11 he turned aside my paths, \q2 he has made me desolate. -\b \s5 \q \v 12 He bent his bow and set me @@ -439,7 +433,6 @@ s5 \q \v 13 He pierced my kidneys \q2 with the arrows of his quiver. -\b \q \v 14 I became a laughingstock to all my people, \q2 their taunting song all day long. @@ -447,7 +440,6 @@ s5 \q \v 15 He filled me with bitter herbs \q2 and forced me to drink wormwood. -\b \s5 \q \v 16 He has made my teeth grind with gravel, @@ -456,7 +448,6 @@ s5 \q \v 17 My soul is deprived of peace; \q2 I have forgotten what prosperity is. -\b \q \v 18 So I say, "My endurance has perished \q2 and so has my hope in Yahweh." @@ -465,7 +456,6 @@ s5 \q \v 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, \q2 the wormwood and bitterness. -\b \q \v 20 I continually remember it \q2 and my soul is bowed down within me. @@ -473,7 +463,6 @@ s5 \q \v 21 But I call this to mind \q2 and therefore I have hope: -\b \s5 \q \v 22 The steadfast love of Yahweh never ceases @@ -482,7 +471,6 @@ s5 \q \v 23 they are new every morning; \q2 your faithfulness is great. -\b \q \v 24 "Yahweh is my inheritance," says my soul, \q2 therefore I will hope in him. @@ -491,7 +479,6 @@ s5 \q \v 25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, \q2 to the soul who seeks him. -\b \q \v 26 It is good to wait silently \q2 for the salvation of Yahweh. @@ -499,7 +486,6 @@ s5 \q \v 27 It is good for a man \q2 that he bear the yoke in his youth. -\b \q \v 28 Let him sit alone in silence, \q2 when it is laid upon him. @@ -507,7 +493,6 @@ s5 \q \v 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust— \q2 there may yet be hope. -\b \s5 \q \v 30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who strikes him, @@ -516,7 +501,6 @@ s5 \q \v 31 For the Lord will not \q2 reject us forever, -\b \q \v 32 but though he causes grief, he will have compassion \q2 according to the abundance of his steadfast love. @@ -524,7 +508,6 @@ s5 \q \v 33 For he does not afflict from his heart \q2 or torment the children of mankind. -\b \s5 \q \v 34 To crush underfoot @@ -533,7 +516,6 @@ s5 \q \v 35 to deny a man justice \q2 in the presence of the Most High, -\b \q \v 36 to deprive a person of justice in his lawsuit— \q2 the Lord would not approve such things! @@ -542,7 +524,6 @@ s5 \q \v 37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, \q2 unless the Lord decreed it? -\b \q \v 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High \q2 that both calamities and the good come? @@ -550,7 +531,6 @@ s5 \q \v 39 How can any person alive complain? \q2 How can a person complain about the punishment for his sins? -\b \s5 \q \v 40 Let us examine our ways and test them, @@ -559,7 +539,6 @@ s5 \q \v 41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands \q2 to God in the heavens: -\b \q \v 42 "We have transgressed and rebelled, \q2 and you have not forgiven. @@ -567,7 +546,6 @@ s5 \q \v 43 You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us, \q2 you have killed and you have not spared. -\b \s5 \q \v 44 You have covered yourself with a cloud @@ -576,7 +554,6 @@ s5 \q \v 45 You have made us like filthy scum \q2 and refuse among the peoples. -\b \q \v 46 All our enemies \q2 curse us, @@ -584,7 +561,6 @@ s5 \q \v 47 panic and pitfall have come upon us, \q2 ruin and destruction. -\b \s5 \q \v 48 My eyes flow with streams of tears @@ -593,7 +569,6 @@ s5 \q \v 49 My eyes will shed tears \q2 without ceasing, without relief, -\b \q \v 50 until Yahweh from heaven \q2 looks down and sees. @@ -602,7 +577,6 @@ s5 \q \v 51 My eyes cause grief to my soul \q2 because of all the daughters of my city. -\b \q \v 52 I have been hunted like a bird \q2 by those who were my enemies; @@ -611,7 +585,6 @@ s5 \q \v 53 They cut off my life in the pit, \q2 and they threw a stone on me, -\b \q \v 54 and they caused waters to overflow, covering my head. \q2 I said, 'I have been cut off!' @@ -620,7 +593,6 @@ s5 \q \v 55 I called on your name, Yahweh, \q2 from the depths of the pit. -\b \q \v 56 You heard my voice when I said, \q2 'Do not close your ear to my cry for help.' @@ -629,7 +601,6 @@ s5 \v 57 You came near on the day I called on you; \q2 you said, 'Do not fear.' \s5 -\b \q \v 58 Lord, you defended my soul's case, \q2 you redeemed my life! @@ -638,7 +609,6 @@ s5 \v 59 Yahweh, you have seen \q2 the wrong they have done to me; \q2 judge my case. -\b \q \v 60 You have seen all their vengeance, \q2 all their plots against me. @@ -646,7 +616,6 @@ s5 \q \v 61 You have heard their insults, Yahweh, \q2 and all their plots against me. -\b \s5 \q \v 62 The lips and the meditations of my enemies @@ -655,7 +624,6 @@ s5 \q \v 63 Look at how they sit and then rise up; \q2 they mock me with their songs. -\b \s5 \q \v 64 Pay back to them what they deserve, Yahweh, @@ -664,7 +632,6 @@ s5 \q \v 65 You will let their hearts be shameless! \q2 May your condemnation be upon them! -\b \q \v 66 You pursue them in anger \q2 and destroy them from under the heavens, Yahweh!" @@ -823,14 +790,12 @@ s5 \q \v 1 Remember, Yahweh, what has happened to us; \q 2look and see our disgrace. -\b \q \v 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers; \q2 our houses to foreigners. \q \v 3 We have become orphans, without a father, \q2 and our mothers are like widows. -\b \q \v 4 We must pay silver for the water we drink, \q2 and we must pay silver to get our own wood. @@ -839,7 +804,6 @@ s5 \q \v 5 Those who are coming after us are close behind us; \q2 we are weary and we can find no rest. -\b \q \v 6 We have given ourselves to Egypt and to Assyria \q2 to get enough food. @@ -847,7 +811,6 @@ s5 \q \v 7 Our fathers sinned, and they are no more, \q2 and we bear their iniquities. -\b \s5 \q \v 8 Slaves rule over us, @@ -856,7 +819,6 @@ s5 \q \v 9 We get our bread only by risking our lives, \q2 because of the sword in the wilderness. -\b \q \v 10 Our skin has grown as hot as an oven \q2 because of the burning heat of hunger. @@ -865,7 +827,6 @@ s5 \q \v 11 Women are raped in Zion, \q2 and virgins in the cities of Judah. -\b \q \v 12 Princes are hung up by their own hands, \q2 and no honor is shown to the elders. @@ -874,7 +835,6 @@ s5 \q \v 13 Young men are forced to grind grain with a millstone, \q2 and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood. -\b \q \v 14 The elders have left the city gate, \q2 and the young men have left their music. @@ -883,7 +843,6 @@ s5 \q \v 15 The joy of our heart has ceased \q2 and our dancing has turned into mourning. -\b \q \v 16 The crown has fallen from our head; \q2 woe to us, for we have sinned!\b @@ -892,7 +851,6 @@ s5 \q \v 17 For this our heart has become sick, \q2 for these things our eyes grow dim -\b \q \v 18 for Mount Zion lies desolate, \q2 with jackals prowling over it. @@ -902,7 +860,6 @@ s5 \v 19 But you, Yahweh, reign forever, \q2 and you will sit upon your throne \q2 from generation to generation. -\b \q \v 20 Why do you forget us forever? \q2 Why do you abandon us @@ -913,7 +870,6 @@ s5 \q2 and we will be restored. \q Renew our days \q2 as they were long ago— -\b \q \v 22 unless you have utterly rejected us \q2 and you are angry with us beyond measure.