The Lamentations of Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 877

2--19 LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH. 3---33 Arise ! shout by night to the chief of the watchers, Pour your heart like a stream, let it How to the Master, Lift to Him your hands for the life of your children, Who are fainting for want at the head of the streets! STANZA 2. Look, Lomb, and retiect upon whom You have done this! zo Shall wives eat their offspring? T he infants they dandled ? Or the Priest and the Preacher, be slain in GoD’s Temple? On the earth of the streets lie the young and the old ? 2; You have slain the young girls and young men by the sword,. In the day of Your anger You slaughtered unsparing! You called like a meeting my terrors around me, 22 And there was in that day from the LORD's wrath no flight, But my foo shamed my girls, and the darlingsl dandled. LAMENT 4 Ely: §r¤plyzt lrrixmils his umn Sufzrixtg s. S1·A1~xzA 1. I am the man _ who felt pain fronrtlie rod of His anger Q-~ 8 He drove me, and led into Darkness, not light! Yes, he turned me, and struck with His hand all the clay, Wore my flesh, and my skin, and has broken my bones,——· Built above, and has struck on my head and exhausted ! I have dwelt in Forgottenness, like the long dead,-·- I am bound and I cannot escape from my chainl SrANzA 2. When I cry, and L shout, He is deaf to my prayer!

As with stones blocks my road,—and. has puzzled my path! Is a night bear to me,—and a lion in hiding; He has damaged my road, and has broke and left lonely; Bent His bow, and set me as a mark for His dart; Has sent to my loins the sons of His quiver; Made a scorn to my people, their song all the day. He filled me with bitters, He sated with wormword; My teeth broke with gravel, and covered with ashes; He removed me from peace ;—-so my life forgot ease, I0 II I2 16 18 My strength fails, and my trust in the LORD !—- I feel my aiiiiction, and wormwood, and galll ’ Think, think, and reflect upon me and my life! 2] But I place this to heart, and I therefore have hope, 22 That the LORD’S mercies end not; nor finish His pities ;-- They are new every morning;--Your manifold gifts! I trust Him. Sranza 3. The Loan blesses the hopeful, the soul that will seek Him; 25 26 It is well to wait still for ]EuovAu's salvation ; It is well that a man bearthe yoke in his youth ; 23 Sit alone and is silent, for He put it on him; Place his mouth to the dust, for perhaps there is hope! Give his cheek to the smiter, be filled with reproaches; For the MASTER will not cast for ever away! Though correcting, He still has great pity and mercy; Does not His heart grieve, when correcting the children of men? 33 877