Lamentations Chapter 3

• Lamentations 3:1
  Lamentations.
• Lamentations 3:2
  I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
• Lamentations 3:3
  He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
• Lamentations 3:4
  Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
• Lamentations 3:5
  He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
• Lamentations 3:6
  He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
• Lamentations 3:7
  He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
• Lamentations 3:8
  He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
• Lamentations 3:9
  Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
• Lamentations 3:10
  He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
• Lamentations 3:11
  He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
• Lamentations 3:12
  He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
• Lamentations 3:13
  He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
• Lamentations 3:14
  He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
• Lamentations 3:15
  I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
• Lamentations 3:16
  He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
• Lamentations 3:17
  He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
• Lamentations 3:18
  You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
• Lamentations 3:19
  I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD.”
• Lamentations 3:20
  Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
• Lamentations 3:21
  My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
• Lamentations 3:22
  This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
• Lamentations 3:23
  It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
• Lamentations 3:24
  They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
• Lamentations 3:25
  “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
• Lamentations 3:26
  The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
• Lamentations 3:27
  It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
• Lamentations 3:28
  It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
• Lamentations 3:29
  Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
• Lamentations 3:30
  Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
• Lamentations 3:31
  Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
• Lamentations 3:32
  For the Lord will not cast off forever.
• Lamentations 3:33
  For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• Lamentations 3:34
  For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
• Lamentations 3:35
  To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
• Lamentations 3:36
  to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
• Lamentations 3:37
  to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
• Lamentations 3:38
  Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
• Lamentations 3:39
  Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
• Lamentations 3:40
  Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
• Lamentations 3:41
  Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
• Lamentations 3:42
  Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
• Lamentations 3:43
  “We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
• Lamentations 3:44
  “You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
• Lamentations 3:45
  You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
• Lamentations 3:46
  You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
• Lamentations 3:47
  “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
• Lamentations 3:48
  Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
• Lamentations 3:49
  My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Lamentations 3:50
  My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,
• Lamentations 3:51
  until the LORD looks down, and sees from heaven.
• Lamentations 3:52
  My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
• Lamentations 3:53
  They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
• Lamentations 3:54
  They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
• Lamentations 3:55
  Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
• Lamentations 3:56
  I called on your name, LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.
• Lamentations 3:57
  You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
• Lamentations 3:58
  You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
• Lamentations 3:59
  Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
• Lamentations 3:60
  LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
• Lamentations 3:61
  You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
• Lamentations 3:62
  You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their plans against me,
• Lamentations 3:63
  the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
• Lamentations 3:64
  You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
• Lamentations 3:65
  You will pay them back, LORD, according to the work of their hands.
• Lamentations 3:66
  You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
• Lamentations 3:67
  You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.