Lamentations 3:3
Strong's Lexicon
Indeed,
אַ֣ךְ (’aḵ)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 389: 1) indeed, surely (emphatic) 2) howbeit, only, but, yet (restrictive)

He keeps turning
יָשֻׁ֛ב (yā·šuḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7725: 1) to return, turn back 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to turn back, return 1a1a) to turn back 1a1b) to return, come or go back 1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back 1a1d) of dying 1a1e) of human relations (fig) 1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig) 1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise 1a1f2) to turn away (of God) 1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent 1a1f4) turn back (from evil) 1a1g) of inanimate things 1a1h) in repetition 1b) (Polel) 1b1) to bring back 1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig) 1b3) to lead away (enticingly) 1b4) to show turning, apostatise 1c) (Pual) restored (participle) 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back 1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment 1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore 1d3) to bring back, report to, answer 1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense) 1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse 1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward 1d7) to turn against 1d8) to bring back to mind 1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke 1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back 1f) (Pulal) brought back

יַהֲפֹ֥ךְ (ya·hă·p̄ōḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2015: 1) to turn, overthrow, overturn 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to overturn, overthrow 1a2) to turn, turn about, turn over, turn around 1a3) to change, transform 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to turn oneself, turn, turn back 1b2) to change oneself 1b3) to be perverse 1b4) to be turned, be turned over, be changed, be turned against 1b5) to be reversed 1b6) to be overturned, be overthrown 1b7) to be upturned 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to transform oneself 1c2) to turn this way and that, turn every way 1d) (Hophal) to turn on someone

His hand
יָד֖וֹ (yā·ḏōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3027: 1) hand 1a) hand (of man) 1b) strength, power (fig.) 1c) side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.) 1d) (various special, technical senses) 1d1) sign, monument 1d2) part, fractional part, share 1d3) time, repetition 1d4) axle-trees, axle 1d5) stays, support (for laver) 1d6) tenons (in tabernacle) 1d7) a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure) 1d8) wrists

[against me] all day long
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: 1) all, the whole 1a) all, the whole of 1b) any, each, every, anything 1c) totality, everything

הַיּֽוֹם׃ (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

Young's Literal Translation
Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yes, He repeatedly turns His hand against me all day long .

New American Standard Bible
Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

King James Bible
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

New Living Translation
He has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

English Standard Version
surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.

New American Standard Bible
Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

King James Bible
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yes, He repeatedly turns His hand against me all day long.

International Standard Version
He truly turned his hand against me, again and again, all day long.

NET Bible
He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

American Standard Version
Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

English Revised Version
Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

Young's Literal Translation
Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.
















Cross References
Psalm 38:2
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Isaiah 5:25
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Lamentations 1:1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

Lamentations 3:1
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Lamentations 2:22
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 3:5
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

Lamentations 3:6
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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