3Lamentations 3

1I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.Select Lamentations 3:1

2He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.Select Lamentations 3:2

3Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.Select Lamentations 3:3

4My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.Select Lamentations 3:4

5He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.Select Lamentations 3:5

6He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.Select Lamentations 3:6

7He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.Select Lamentations 3:7

8Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.Select Lamentations 3:8

9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.Select Lamentations 3:9

10He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.Select Lamentations 3:10

11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.Select Lamentations 3:11

12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.Select Lamentations 3:12

13He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.Select Lamentations 3:13

14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.Select Lamentations 3:14

15He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.Select Lamentations 3:15

16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.Select Lamentations 3:16

17And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.Select Lamentations 3:17

18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:Select Lamentations 3:18

19Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.Select Lamentations 3:19

20My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.Select Lamentations 3:20

21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. ¶Select Lamentations 3:21

22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.Select Lamentations 3:22

23They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.Select Lamentations 3:23

24The LORD is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.Select Lamentations 3:24

25The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.Select Lamentations 3:25

26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.Select Lamentations 3:26

27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.Select Lamentations 3:27

28He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.Select Lamentations 3:28

29He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.Select Lamentations 3:29

30He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.Select Lamentations 3:30

31For the LORD will not cast off for ever:Select Lamentations 3:31

32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.Select Lamentations 3:32

33For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.Select Lamentations 3:33

34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.Select Lamentations 3:34

35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,Select Lamentations 3:35

36To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not. ¶Select Lamentations 3:36

37Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?Select Lamentations 3:37

38Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?Select Lamentations 3:38

39Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?Select Lamentations 3:39

40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.Select Lamentations 3:40

41Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.Select Lamentations 3:41

42We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.Select Lamentations 3:42

43You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.Select Lamentations 3:43

44You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.Select Lamentations 3:44

45You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people.Select Lamentations 3:45

46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.Select Lamentations 3:46

47Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction.Select Lamentations 3:47

48My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.Select Lamentations 3:48

49My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.Select Lamentations 3:49

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

51My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.Select Lamentations 3:51

52My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.Select Lamentations 3:52

53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone on me.Select Lamentations 3:53

54Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off. ¶Select Lamentations 3:54

55I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.Select Lamentations 3:55

56You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.Select Lamentations 3:56

57You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not.Select Lamentations 3:57

58O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.Select Lamentations 3:58

59O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.Select Lamentations 3:59

60You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.Select Lamentations 3:60

61You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;Select Lamentations 3:61

62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.Select Lamentations 3:62

63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. ¶Select Lamentations 3:63

64Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.Select Lamentations 3:64

65Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them.Select Lamentations 3:65

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