3Lamentations 3

CHAP. III. / 1 The faithfull bewaile their calamities. 22 By the mercies of God they nourish their hope. 37 They acknowledge Gods iustice. 55 They pray for deliuerance, 64 and vengeance on their enemi

1I am the man that hath seene affliction by the rod of his wrath.Select Lamentations 3:1

2He hath led me and brought mee into darkenesse, but not into light.Select Lamentations 3:2

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

4My flesh and my skinne hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.Select Lamentations 3:4

5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and trauel.Select Lamentations 3:5

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

7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: hee hath made my chaine heauie.Select Lamentations 3:7

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

9Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.Select Lamentations 3:9

10He was vnto me as a Beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.Select Lamentations 3:10

11Hee hath turned aside my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: hee hath made me desolate.Select Lamentations 3:11

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

13Hee hath caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.Select Lamentations 3:13

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

15Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.Select Lamentations 3:15

16He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.Select Lamentations 3:16

17And thou hast remoued my soule farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie.Select Lamentations 3:17

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

19Remembring mine affliction and my miserie, the wormewood & the gall.Select Lamentations 3:19

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

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

22It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.Select Lamentations 3:22

23They are newe euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.Select Lamentations 3:23

24The Lord is my portion, sayth my soule, therefore will I hope in him.Select Lamentations 3:24

25The Lord is good vnto them that waite for him, to the soule that seeketh him.Select Lamentations 3:25

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

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

28Hee sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because hee hath borne it vpon him.Select Lamentations 3:28

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

30Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him, hee is filled full with reproch.Select Lamentations 3:30

31For the Lord will not cast off for euer.Select Lamentations 3:31

32But though hee cause griefe, yet will hee haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.Select Lamentations 3:32

33For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieue the children of men.Select Lamentations 3:33

34To crush vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,Select Lamentations 3:34

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

36To subuert a man in his cause, the Lord approoueth not.Select Lamentations 3:36

37Who is hee that sayth, and it commeth to passe, when the Lord commandeth it not?Select Lamentations 3:37

38Out of the mouth of the most hie proceedeth not euill and good?Select Lamentations 3:38

39Wherefore doeth a liuing man complaine, a man for the punishment of his sinnes?Select Lamentations 3:39

40Let vs search and try our waies, and turne againe to the Lord.Select Lamentations 3:40

41Let vs lift vp our heart with our hands vnto God in the heauens.Select Lamentations 3:41

42We haue transgressed, and haue rebelled, thou hast not pardoned.Select Lamentations 3:42

43Thou hast couered with anger, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine, thou hast not pitied.Select Lamentations 3:43

44Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloud, that our prayer should not passe through.Select Lamentations 3:44

45Thou hast made vs as the offscouring and refuse in the middest of the people.Select Lamentations 3:45

46All our enemies haue opened their mouthes against vs.Select Lamentations 3:46

47Feare and a snare is come vpon vs, desolation and destruction.Select Lamentations 3:47

48Mine eye runneth downe with riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.Select Lamentations 3:48

49Mine eye trickleth downe and ceaseth not, without any intermission:Select Lamentations 3:49

50Till the Lord looke downe, and behold from heauen.Select Lamentations 3:50

51Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.Select Lamentations 3:51

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

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

54Waters flowed ouer mine head, then I sayd, I am cut off.Select Lamentations 3:54

55I called vpon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.Select Lamentations 3:55

56Thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine eare at my breathing, at my crie.Select Lamentations 3:56

57Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saidst, Feare not.Select Lamentations 3:57

58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soule, thou hast redeemed my life.Select Lamentations 3:58

59O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.Select Lamentations 3:59

60Thou hast seene all their vengeance; and all their imaginations against me.Select Lamentations 3:60

61Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:Select Lamentations 3:61

62The lippes of those that rose vp against me, and their deuice against me all the day.Select Lamentations 3:62

63Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, I am their musicke.Select Lamentations 3:63

64Render vnto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the worke of their hands.Select Lamentations 3:64

65Giue them sorrow of heart, thy curse vnto them.Select Lamentations 3:65

66Persecute and destroy them in anger, from vnder the heauens of the Lord.Select Lamentations 3:66