Lamentations 3:1
I am the man who hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
Lamentations 3:2
Me He hath led, and causeth to go in darkness, and without light.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.
Lamentations 3:4
He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 3:5
He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
Lamentations 3:6
In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.
Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
Lamentations 3:8
Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
Lamentations 3:10
A bear lying in wait He is to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.
Lamentations 3:11
My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.
Lamentations 3:12
He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.
Lamentations 3:13
He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.
Lamentations 3:14
I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:16
And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3:17
And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.
Lamentations 3:18
And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.
Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
Lamentations 3:20
Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.
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This I turn to my heart--therefore I hope.
Lamentations 3:22
The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.
Lamentations 3:23
New every morning, abundant is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:24
My portion is Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.
Lamentations 3:25
Good is Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul that seeketh Him.
Lamentations 3:26
Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.
Lamentations 3:27
Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3:28
He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid it upon him.
Lamentations 3:29
He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope.
Lamentations 3:30
He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach.
Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord doth not cast off to the age.
Lamentations 3:32
For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.
Lamentations 3:33
For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men.
Lamentations 3:34
To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth,
Lamentations 3:35
To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,
Lamentations 3:36
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved.
Lamentations 3:37
Who is this--he hath said, and it is, And the Lord hath not commanded it ?
Lamentations 3:38
From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.
Lamentations 3:39
What--sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?
Lamentations 3:40
We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
Lamentations 3:41
We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3:42
We--we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou--Thou hast not forgiven.
Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain--Thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations 3:44
Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.
Lamentations 3:45
Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.
Lamentations 3:46
Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.
Lamentations 3:48
Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:49
Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission,
Lamentations 3:50
Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,
Lamentations 3:51
My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3:52
Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.
Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.
Lamentations 3:54
Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
Lamentations 3:55
I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.
Lamentations 3:56
My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing--at my cry.
Lamentations 3:57
Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee, Thou hast said, Fear not.
Lamentations 3:58
Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3:59
Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause.
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Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.
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Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me,
Lamentations 3:62
The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.
Lamentations 3:63
Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I am their song.
Lamentations 3:64
Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3:65
Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them.
Lamentations 3:66
Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!