Polyglot Bible: Lamentations: Lamentations 3

This is a scholarly parallel-text edition of Lamentations 3, presenting the full chapter in three columns: the King James Version annotated with Strong's Concordance reference numbers, the Greek Septuagint (LXX), and the Hebrew Masoretic text with cantillation marks and textual variants noted. The work belongs to the tradition of biblical textual criticism and comparative philology, designed for readers who study the transmission and translation history of the Hebrew Bible. The chapter itself is a first-person lament poem in which a speaker identified as "the man who has seen affliction" catalogs devastating suffering inflicted by God — broken bones, imprisonment, blocked prayers, public humiliation — before reaching a pivotal theological turn: God's mercies are new every morning, and his steadfast love (Hebrew *hesed*) means abandonment is never permanent. The second half shifts to communal voice, confessing sin, acknowledging divine wrath, and appealing to God to witness the enemies' cruelty and exact retribution. A notably distinctive feature of this edition is that the Septuagint column diverges at several points from the KJV/Hebrew — including the omission or reordering of verses 22–24 and variant renderings of key theological terms — making the manuscript differences visible to the reader rather than smoothing them over. The text is most useful to someone studying how Lamentations was transmitted and interpreted across ancient textual traditions, rather than seeking a devotional or literary reading of the poem.

Polyglot Bible: Lamentations: Lamentations 3

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