Lamentations 3

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 builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

Lamentations 3:6 – He hath set me in dark places, as they that be 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 unto 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 is perished from the LORD:

Lamentations 3:19 – Remembering mine 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&#x27;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 unto 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 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 so be 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 cause 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 – Wherefore 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 unto 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 – Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 3:49 – Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

Lamentations 3:50 – Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

Lamentations 3:51 – Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 3:52 – Mine enemies chased me sore, 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 mine 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 thine 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 musick.

Lamentations 3:64 – Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Lamentations 3:65 – Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

Lamentations 3:66 – Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.