chapter_Lamentations_3
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. Lamentations 3:21: This I turn to my heart &#8212; 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 &#8212; 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 &#8212; 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 &#8212; we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou &#8212; Thou hast not forgiven. Lamentations 3:43: Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain &#8212; 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 &#8212; 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. Lamentations 3:60: Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me. Lamentations 3:61: 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!
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