Lamentations Chapter 3

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1: I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. edit

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

3: Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. edit

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

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

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

7: He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. edit

8: Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. edit

9: He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. edit

10: He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. edit

11: He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. edit

12: He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. edit

13: He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. edit

14: I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. edit

15: He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. edit

16: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. edit

17: And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. edit

18: And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: edit

19: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. edit

20: My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. edit

21: This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. edit

22: It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. edit

23: They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. edit

24: The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. edit

25: The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. edit

26: It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. edit

27: It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth. edit

28: He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. edit

29: He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. edit

30: He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. edit

31: For the LORD will not cast off for ever: edit

32: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. edit

33: For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. edit

34: To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth. edit

35: To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, edit

36: To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not. edit

37: Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? edit

38: Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? edit

39: Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? edit

40: Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. edit

41: Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. edit

42: We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. edit

43: Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. edit

44: Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. edit

45: Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. edit

46: All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. edit

47: Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. edit

48: Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. edit

49: Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission. edit

50: Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. edit

51: Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. edit

52: Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. edit

53: They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. edit

54: Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. edit

55: I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. edit

56: Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. edit

57: Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. edit

58: O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. edit

59: O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. edit

60: Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. edit

61: Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; edit

62: The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. edit

63: Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick. edit

64: Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. edit

65: Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. edit

66: Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. edit