Targum do Lamentacje Jeremiasza 3:68

I am that man who has seen affliction by the rod that chastises in his anger. 

Indeed, against me he will turn, heaping upon me his blows all day.

My flesh is worn out from beatings, my skin from the blow. He has shattered my bones.

He has built siege works and surrounded the city. He has uprooted the heads of the people and wearied them.

He has caused me to dwell in a dark prison like the dead who have gone to the other world.

He has locked me in so that I cannot go out from the prison. He has put heavy brass fetters on my feet.

Even when I cry out and pray the house of my prayer is blocked.

He has closed my paths with hewn marble stones. He has confounded my paths.

He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion hiding in a hallow.

I have become a laughing stock to all the degenerate of my people; they mock me in song all day.

He has sated me with gall of snakes and made me drunk with wormwood.

And my soul shrinks from asking for peace; I have forgotten goodness.

And I said, “My strength is destroyed and the goodness which I had longed for from before the Lord.

“Remember the affliction of my soul and how my foes embittered me and caused me to drink wormwood and the poison of snakes.”

My soul surely will remember and bow down within me due to affliction.

This consolation I call to mind, therefore I have hope:

He brings forth new wonders in the mornings; great is your faithfulness.

The Lord is good to those who hope for his salvation; to the soul who seeks his instruction.

It is good to wait and be silent until the salvation of the Lord comes.

It is good for a man to train his soul to bear the yoke of the commandments in his youth.

Let him sit alone and be silent, bearing the corrections which have come upon him, for the sake of the unity of the name of the Lord, which have been sent to punish him for the minor sins which he has committed in this world, until he have mercy upon him and lift them from him so that he may receive him perfected in the world to come.

Let him put his mouth to the dust and prostrate himself before his master perhaps there is hope.

Let him turn his cheek to the one that smites, for the sake of the fear of the Lord, let him be filled with insult.

For the Lord will not neglect his servants forever, giving them over into the hand of their enemy.

But first he breaks and afterwards he repents and has mercy on the righteous in the abundance of his goodness.

For since man did not afflict his soul nor removed arrogance from his heart, therefore he caused destruction to come upon the sons of men.

Humbling and subduing all the prisoners of the earth under his feet,

And perverting the justice of a poor man in the presence of the Most High,

Confounding a poor man in his quarrels; is it possible that this will not be revealed before the Lord?

Who is the man who has spoken and an evil thing had been done in the world, unless because they did that which they were not commanded by the mouth of the Lord?

From the mouth of God Most High there does not issue evil, rather by the hint of a whisper, because of the violence with which the land is filled. But when he desires to decree good in the world it issues from the holy mouth.

What profit shall a man find who sins all the days of his life; a wicked man for his sins?

Let us search and examine our ways; and turn in repentance before the Lord.

Let us lift our cleansed hearts and cast away theft and robbery from our hands. And let us repent before God the dwelling of whose Shekinah is in heaven above.

We have rebelled and been disobedient and since we did not return to you, you have not forgiven.

You have covered us in anger and pursued us in exile. You have killed and have not pitied.

You have covered the heavens with your clouds of glory so that our prayers cannot cross to you.

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us, to announce evil decrees against us.

Panic and fear have come upon us because of them, trembling and destruction have seized us.

Like streams of water my eyes flowed with tears because of the destruction of the Congregation of my people.

My eye weeps tears and does not cease from crying. There is no respite from my anguish or anyone to comfort me;

Until the Lord looks out and sees my humiliation from heaven.

The weeping of my eyes is the cause of the affliction of my soul< /b>over the destruction of the districts of my people and the humiliation of the daughters of Jerusalem, my city.

Waters flowed over my head. I said in my word, “I am cut off from the world.”

You received my prayer at that time, and now do not cover your ears from receiving my prayer to give me relief because of my plea.

You brought the angel near to save me, in the day that I prayed to you. You said by your Memra, “Do not fear.”

You have fought, O Lord, against those who made a quarrel with my soul. You delivered my life from their hands.

You have seen, O Lord, the wrong by which they wronged me. Judge my case.

All their vengeance has been revealed before you, all their evil plans against me.

Their taunts were heard before you, O Lord, all their evil plans against me.

The lips of the enemies are against me and their mutterings are against me all day.

May you return to them evil recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

May you give them brokenness of heart and may your weariness wear them out.

Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the high heaven of the Lord.