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'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.