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Κεφάλαιο 30
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Chapter 30
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| ΝΥΝΙ δὲ κατεγέλασάν μου ἐλάχιστοι, νῦν νουθετοῦσί με ἐν μέρει ὧν ἐξουδένουν τοὺς πατέρας αὐτῶν, οὓς οὐχ ἡγησάμην ἀξίους κυνῶν τῶν ἐμῶν νομάδων. | But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in their turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy to be with my shepherd dogs. |
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| καί γε ἰσχὺς χειρῶν αὐτῶν ἱνατί μοι; ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς ἀπώλετο συντέλεια. | Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term of life was lost. |
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| ἐν ἐνδείᾳ καὶ λιμῷ ἄγονος· οἱ φεύγοντες ἄνυδρον ἐχθὲς συνοχὴν καὶ ταλαιπωρίαν, | One is childless in want and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought. |
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| οἱ περικυκλοῦντες ἅλιμα ἐπὶ ἠχοῦντι, οἵτινες ἅλιμα ἦν αὐτῶν τὰ σῖτα, ἄτιμοι δὲ καὶ πεφαυλισμένοι, ἐνδεεῖς παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ, οἳ καὶ ρίζας ξύλων ἐμασσῶντο ὑπὸ λιμοῦ μεγάλου. | Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonourable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger. |
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| ἐπανέστησάν μοι κλέπται, | Thieves have risen up against me, |
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| ὧν οἱ οἶκοι αὐτῶν ἦσαν τρῶγλαι πετρῶν, | whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs. |
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| ἀνὰ μέσον εὐήχων βοήσονται· οἳ ὑπὸ φρύγανα ἄγρια διῃτῶντο, | They will cry out among the rustling bushes. |
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| ἀφρόνων υἱοὶ καὶ ἀτίμων, ὄνομα καὶ κλέος ἐσβεσμένον ἀπὸ γῆς. | They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth. |
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| νυνὶ δὲ κιθάρα ἐγώ εἰμι αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐμὲ θρύλλημα ἔχουσιν· | But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word. |
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| ἐβδελύξαντο δέ με ἀποστάντες μακρὰν ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ προσώπου μου οὐκ ἐφείσαντο πτύελον. | And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face. |
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| ἀνοίξας γὰρ φαρέτραν αὐτοῦ ἐκάκωσέ με, καὶ χαλινὸν τοῦ προσώπου μου ἐξαπέστειλαν. | For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence. |
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| ἐπὶ δεξιῶν βλαστοῦ ἐξανέστησαν, πόδα αὐτῶν ἐξέτειναν καὶ ὡδοποίησαν ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ τρίβους ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν. | They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction. |
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| ἐξετρίβησαν τρίβοι μου, ἐξέδυσαν γάρ μου τὴν στολήν· βέλεσιν αὐτοῦ κατηκόντισέ με, | My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons. |
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| κέχρηται δέ μοι ὡς βούλεται, ἐν ὀδύναις πέφυρμαι. | And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains. |
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| ἐπιστρέφονταί μου αἱ ὀδύναι, ᾤχετό μου ἡ ἐλπὶς ὥσπερ πνεῦμα καὶ ὥσπερ νέφος ἡ σωτηρία μου. | My pains return upon me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud. |
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| καὶ νῦν ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ ἐκχυθήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου, ἔχουσι δέ με ἡμέραι ὀδυνῶν· | Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me. |
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| νυκτί δέ μου τὰ ὀστᾶ συγκέχυται, τὰ δὲ νεῦρά μου διαλέλυται. | And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed. |
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| ἐν πολλῇ ἰσχύϊ ἐπελάβετό μου τῆς στολῆς, ὥσπερ τὸ περιστόμιον τοῦ χιτῶνός μου περιέσχε με. | With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat. |
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| ἥγησαι δέ με ἴσα πηλῷ, ἐν γῇ καὶ σποδῷ μου ἡ μερίς· | And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion is in dust and ashes. |
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| κέκραγα δὲ πρός σε καὶ οὐκ ἀκούεις μου, ἔστησαν δὲ καὶ κατενόησάν με· | And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: but they stood still, and observed me. |
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| ἐπέβης δέ μοι ἀνελεημόνως, χειρὶ κραταιᾷ με ἐμαστίγωσας· | They attacked me also without mercy: thou hast scourged me with a strong hand. |
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| ἔταξας δέ με ἐν ὀδύναις, καὶ ἀπέρριψάς με ἀπὸ σωτηρίας. | And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety. |
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| οἶδα γὰρ ὅτι θάνατός με ἐκτρίψει, οἰκία γὰρ παντὶ θνητῷ γῆ. | For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal. |
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| εἰ γὰρ ὄφελον δυναίμην ἐμαυτὸν χειρώσασθαι, ἢ δεηθείς γε ἑτέρου, καὶ ποιήσει μοι τοῦτο. | Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me. |
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| ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπὶ παντὶ ἀδυνάτῳ ἔκλαυσα, ἐστέναξα ἰδὼν ἄνδρα ἐν ἀνάγκαις. | Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress. |
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| ἐγὼ δὲ ἐπέχων ἀγαθοῖς, ἰδοὺ συνήντησάν μοι μᾶλλον ἡμέραι κακῶν. | But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me. |
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| ἡ κοιλία μου ἐξέζεσε καὶ οὐ σιωπήσεται, προέφθασάν με ἡμέραι πτωχείας. | My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me. |
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| στένων πεπόρευμαι ἄνευ φιμοῦ, ἕστηκα δὲ ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ κεκραγώς. | I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly. |
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| ἀδελφὸς γέγονα σειρήνων, ἑταῖρος δὲ στρουθῶν. | I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches. |
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| τὸ δὲ δέρμα μου ἐσκότωται μεγάλως, τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἀπὸ καύματος. | And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat. |
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| ἀπέβη δὲ εἰς πένθος μου ἡ κιθάρα, ὁ δὲ ψαλμός μου εἰς κλαυθμὸν ἐμοί. | My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping. |
