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You have not been lifting weights. What makes you think that you can lift weights? Until your body adapts to actual intense physical exertion that only weightlifting can provide, you will experience a lot of soreness. It is great that you are starting to lift, but you will get sore. Right now you are probably very out of balance, strength-wise. It will take time to even out the strength in the body.
Also, just a little point of clarification: Stretching does not alleviate soreness or doms. It simply gets the muscle moving, and the movement and warmth that is generated helps temporarily make that soreness go away. Once you stop moving, you stiffen up again. Time is the only cure for doms. Stretching and flexibility are necessary for correcting immobility in a particular joint. Being hyperflexible does not promote fitness. Being in a normal range is best for most people. For example, if you lie flat on your back and you can lift one leg straight up while straight, and keep the other leg straight out, then you have normal flexibility in the hamstrings. The normal range of motion is 90 to 120 degrees. Any further than that does not promote greater fitness.
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