Lamentations 3

  1. I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 🔗
  2. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 🔗
  3. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 🔗
  4. My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 🔗
  5. He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 🔗
  6. He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 🔗
  7. He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. 🔗
  8. Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 🔗
  9. He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. 🔗
  10. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. 🔗
  11. He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. 🔗
  12. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 🔗
  13. He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 🔗
  14. I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. 🔗
  15. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. 🔗
  16. He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. 🔗
  17. And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. 🔗
  18. And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: 🔗
  19. Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 🔗
  20. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. 🔗
  21. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 🔗
  22. It is of the LORD2019s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 🔗
  23. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 🔗
  24. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 🔗
  25. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 🔗
  26. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. 🔗
  27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 🔗
  28. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. 🔗
  29. He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. 🔗
  30. He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. 🔗
  31. For the LORD will not cast off for ever: 🔗
  32. But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. 🔗
  33. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. 🔗
  34. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, 🔗
  35. To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, 🔗
  36. To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not. 🔗
  37. Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 🔗
  38. Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 🔗
  39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 🔗
  40. Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. 🔗
  41. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. 🔗
  42. We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 🔗
  43. Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 🔗
  44. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 🔗
  45. Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 🔗
  46. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 🔗
  47. Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 🔗
  48. Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 🔗
  49. Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, 🔗
  50. Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. 🔗
  51. Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. 🔗
  52. Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. 🔗
  53. They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. 🔗
  54. Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. 🔗
  55. I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. 🔗
  56. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 🔗
  57. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. 🔗
  58. O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 🔗
  59. O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. 🔗
  60. Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. 🔗
  61. Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; 🔗
  62. The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. 🔗
  63. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick. 🔗
  64. Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. 🔗
  65. Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. 🔗
  66. Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. 🔗

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