Lamentations 3:1
I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 3:5
He hath built against me, and compassed [me] with gall and labor.
Lamentations 3:6
He hath set me in dark places, as [they that are] dead of old.
Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3:8
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:10
He [was] to me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3:11
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3:13
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Lamentations 3:14
I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.
Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3:17
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Lamentations 3:18
And I said, My strength and my hope hath perished from the LORD:
Lamentations 3:19
Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:20
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Lamentations 3:21
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Lamentations 3:22
[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lamentations 3:23
[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:24
The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations 3:25
The LORD [is] good to them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.
Lamentations 3:26
[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations 3:27
[It is] good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3:28
He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.
Lamentations 3:29
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if there may be hope.
Lamentations 3:30
He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
Lamentations 3:32
But though he causeth grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Lamentations 3:33
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations 3:34
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations 3:35
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamentations 3:36
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
Lamentations 3:37
Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?
Lamentations 3:38
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Lamentations 3:39
Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands to God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3:42
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations 3:44
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.
Lamentations 3:45
Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Lamentations 3:48
My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:49
My eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Lamentations 3:50
Till the LORD shall look down, and behold from heaven.
Lamentations 3:51
My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3:52
My enemies chased me fiercely, like a bird without cause.
Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over my head; [then] I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3:55
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations 3:56
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thy ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations 3:57
Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Lamentations 3:58
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3:59
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Lamentations 3:60
Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.
Lamentations 3:61
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;
Lamentations 3:62
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Lamentations 3:63
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their music.
Lamentations 3:64
Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3:65
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse to them.
Lamentations 3:66
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.