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The Lamentations of Jeremiah
Chapter 3
American Standard Version| Lam 3:1 | I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
| Lam 3:2 | He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. |
| Lam 3:3 | Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day. |
| Lam 3:4 | My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. |
| Lam 3:5 | He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. |
| Lam 3:6 | He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. |
| Lam 3:7 | He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy. |
| Lam 3:8 | Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer. |
| Lam 3:9 | He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked. |
| Lam 3:10 | He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places. |
| Lam 3:11 | He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. |
| Lam 3:12 | He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. |
| Lam 3:13 | He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. |
| Lam 3:14 | I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. |
| Lam 3:15 | He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood. |
| Lam 3:16 | He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes. |
| Lam 3:17 | And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity. |
| Lam 3:18 | And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah. |
| Lam 3:19 | Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. |
| Lam 3:20 | My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me. |
| Lam 3:21 | This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. |
| Lam 3:22 | It is of Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. |
| Lam 3:23 | They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. |
| Lam 3:24 | Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. |
| Lam 3:25 | Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. |
| Lam 3:26 | It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. |
| Lam 3:27 | It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. |
| Lam 3:28 | Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. |
| Lam 3:29 | Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. |
| Lam 3:30 | Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach. |
| Lam 3:31 | For the Lord will not cast off for ever. |
| Lam 3:32 | For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. |
| Lam 3:33 | For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. |
| Lam 3:34 | To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, |
| Lam 3:35 | To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, |
| Lam 3:36 | To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. |
| Lam 3:37 | Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
| Lam 3:38 | Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good? |
| Lam 3:39 | Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
| Lam 3:40 | Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah. |
| Lam 3:41 | Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. |
| Lam 3:42 | We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned. |
| Lam 3:43 | Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. |
| Lam 3:44 | Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through. |
| Lam 3:45 | Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
| Lam 3:46 | All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. |
| Lam 3:47 | Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction. |
| Lam 3:48 | Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| Lam 3:49 | Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, |
| Lam 3:50 | Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven. |
| Lam 3:51 | Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. |
| Lam 3:52 | They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. |
| Lam 3:53 | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me. |
| Lam 3:54 | Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off. |
| Lam 3:55 | I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon. |
| Lam 3:56 | Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
| Lam 3:57 | Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not. |
| Lam 3:58 | O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. |
| Lam 3:59 | O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause. |
| Lam 3:60 | Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. |
| Lam 3:61 | Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me, |
| Lam 3:62 | The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. |
| Lam 3:63 | Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song. |
| Lam 3:64 | Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands. |
| Lam 3:65 | Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them. |
| Lam 3:66 | Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah. |