Comparison
Lamentations 3
Douay-Rheims and Vulgata Clementina, verse by verse.
| Douay-Rheims | Vulgata Clementina | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation. | Aleph Ego vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis eius. |
| 2 | Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. | Aleph Me minavit, et adduxit in tenebras, et non in lucem. |
| 3 | Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day. | Aleph Tantum in me vertit et convertit manum suam tota die. |
| 4 | Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones. | Beth Vetustam fecit pellem meam et carnem meam; contrivit ossa mea. |
| 5 | Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour. | Beth Aedificavit in gyro meo, et circumdedit me felle et labore. |
| 6 | Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. | Beth In tenebrosis collocavit me, quasi mortuos sempiternos. |
| 7 | Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. | Ghimel Circumaedificavit adversum me, ut non egrediar; aggravavit compedem meum. |
| 8 | Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. | Ghimel Sed et cum clamavero, et rogavero, exclusit orationem meam. |
| 9 | Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. | Ghimel Conclusit vias meas lapidibus quadris; semitas meas subvertit. |
| 10 | Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places. | Daleth Ursus insidians factus est mihi, leo in absconditis. |
| 11 | Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate. | Daleth Semitas meas subvertit, et confregit me; posuit me desolatam. |
| 12 | Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows. | Daleth Tetendit arcum suum, et posuit me quasi signum ad sagittam. |
| 13 | He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver. | He Misit in renibus meis filias pharetrae suae. |
| 14 | He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long. | He Factus sum in derisum omni populo meo, canticum eorum tota die. |
| 15 | He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. | He Replevit me amaritudinibus; inebriavit me absinthio. |
| 16 | Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes. | Vau Et fregit ad numerum dentes meos; cibavit me cinere. |
| 17 | Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things. | Vau Et repulsa est a pace anima mea; oblitus sum bonorum. |
| 18 | Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord. | Vau Et dixi: Periit finis meus, et spes mea a Domino. |
| 19 | Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall. | Zain Recordare paupertatis, et transgressionis meae, absinthii et fellis. |
| 20 | Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me. | Zain Memoria memor ero, et tabescet in me anima mea. |
| 21 | Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope. | Zain Haec recolens in corde meo, ideo sperabo. |
| 22 | Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed. | Heth Misericordiae Domini, quia non sumus consumpti; quia non defecerunt miserationes eius. |
| 23 | Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness. | Heth Novi diluculo, multa est fides tua. |
| 24 | Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him. | Heth Pars mea Dominus, dixit anima mea; propterea exspectabo eum. |
| 25 | Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. | Teth Bonus est Dominus sperantibus in eum, animae quaerenti illum. |
| 26 | Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God. | Teth Bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Dei. |
| 27 | Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth. | Teth Bonum est viro cum portaverit iugum ab adolescentia sua. |
| 28 | Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself. | Iod Sedebit solitarius, et tacebit, quia levavit super se. |
| 29 | Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. | Iod Ponet in pulvere os suum, si forte sit spes. |
| 30 | Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches. | Iod Dabit percutienti se maxillam: saturabitur opprobriis. |
| 31 | Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever. | Caph Quia non repellet in sempiternum Dominus. |
| 32 | Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies. | Caph Quia si abiecit, et miserebitur, secundum multitudinem misericordiarum suarum. |
| 33 | Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men. | Caph Non enim humiliavit ex corde suo et abiecit filios hominum. |
| 34 | Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land, | Lamed Ut conteret sub pedibus suis omnes vinctos terrae. |
| 35 | Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High, | Lamed Ut declinaret iudicium viri in conspectu vultus Altissimi. |
| 36 | Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved. | Lamed Ut perverteret hominem in iudicio suo; Dominus ignoravit. |
| 37 | Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not? | Mem Quis est iste qui dixit ut fieret, Domino non iubente? |
| 38 | Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest? | Mem Ex ore Altissimi non egredientur nec mala nec bona? |
| 39 | Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? | Mem Quid murmuravit homo vivens, vir pro peccatis suis? |
| 40 | Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord. | Nun Scrutemur vias nostras, et quaeramus, et revertamur ad Dominum. |
| 41 | Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens. | Nun Levemus corda nostra cum manibus ad Dominum in caelos. |
| 42 | Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable. | Nun Nos inique egimus, et ad iracundiam provocavimus; idcirco tu inexorabilis es. |
| 43 | Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared. | Samech Operuisti in furore, et percussisti nos; occidisti, nec pepercisti. |
| 44 | Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through. | Samech Opposuisti nubem tibi, ne transeat oratio. |
| 45 | Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people. | Samech Eradicationem et abiectionem posuisti me in medio populorum. |
| 46 | Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. | Phe Aperuerunt super nos os suum omnes inimici. |
| 47 | Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction. | Phe Formido et laqueus facta est nobis vaticinatio, et contritio. |
| 48 | Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. | Phe Divisiones aquarum deduxit oculus meus, in contritione filiae populi mei. |
| 49 | Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest: | Ain Oculus meus afflictus est, nec tacuit, eo quod non esset requies. |
| 50 | Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens. | Ain Donec respiceret et videret Dominus de caelis. |
| 51 | Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city. | Ain Oculus meus depraedatus est animam meam in cunctis filiabus urbis meae. |
| 52 | Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause. | Sade Venatione ceperunt me quasi avem inimici mei gratis. |
| 53 | Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. | Sade Lapsa est in lacum vita mea, et posuerunt lapidem super me. |
| 54 | Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off. | Sade Inundaverunt aquae super caput meum; dixi: Perii. |
| 55 | Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit. | Coph Invocavi nomen tuum, Domine, de lacu novissimo. |
| 56 | Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries. | Coph Vocem meam audisti; ne avertas aurem tuam a singultu meo et clamoribus. |
| 57 | Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not. | Coph Appropinquasti in die quando invocavi te; dixisti: Ne timeas. |
| 58 | Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life. | Res Iudicasti, Domine, causam animae meae, redemptor vitae meae. |
| 59 | Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment. | Res Vidisti, Domine, iniquitatem illorum adversum me: iudica iudicium meum. |
| 60 | Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me. | Res Vidisti omnem furorem, universas cogitationes eorum adversum me. |
| 61 | Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me. | Sin Audisti opprobrium eorum, Domine, omnes cogitationes eorum adversum me. |
| 62 | Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day. | Sin Labia insurgentium mihi, et meditationes eorum adversum me tota die. |
| 63 | Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song. | Sin Sessionem eorum et resurrectionem eorum vide; ego sum psalmus eorum. |
| 64 | Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. | Thau Redes eis vicem, Domine, iuxta opera manuum suarum. |
| 65 | Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour. | Thau Dabis eis scutum cordis, laborem tuum. |
| 66 | Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord. | Thau Persequeris in furore, et conteres eos sub caelis, Domine. |
