3Lamentations 3

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

2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.Select Lamentations 3:2

3Surely against me He turneth His hand again and again all the day.Select Lamentations 3:3

4My flesh and my skin hath He worn out; He hath broken my bones.Select Lamentations 3:4

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

6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.Select Lamentations 3:6

7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth; He hath made my chain heavy.Select Lamentations 3:7

8Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.Select Lamentations 3:8

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

10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.Select Lamentations 3:10

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

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

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

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

15He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.Select Lamentations 3:15

16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.Select Lamentations 3:16

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

18And I said: 'My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD.'Select Lamentations 3:18

19Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.Select Lamentations 3:19

20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.Select Lamentations 3:20

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

22Surely the LORD'S mercies are not consumed, surely His compassions fail not.Select Lamentations 3:22

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

24'The LORD is my portion', saith my soul; 'Therefore will I hope in Him.'Select Lamentations 3:24

25The LORD is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.Select Lamentations 3:25

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

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

28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because He hath laid it upon him.Select Lamentations 3:28

29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.Select Lamentations 3:29

30Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him, let him be filled full with reproach.Select Lamentations 3:30

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

32For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.Select Lamentations 3:32

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

34To crush under foot 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 approveth not.Select Lamentations 3:36

37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?Select Lamentations 3:37

38Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good?Select Lamentations 3:38

39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a strong man because of his sins?Select Lamentations 3:39

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

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

42We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.Select Lamentations 3:42

43Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.Select Lamentations 3:43

44Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.Select Lamentations 3:44

45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.Select Lamentations 3:45

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

47Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.Select Lamentations 3:47

48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the breach of the daughter of my people.Select Lamentations 3:48

49Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,Select Lamentations 3:49

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

51Mine eye affected my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.Select Lamentations 3:51

52They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine enemies without cause.Select Lamentations 3:52

53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones upon me.Select Lamentations 3:53

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

55I called upon Thy name, O LORD, Out of the lowest dungeon.Select Lamentations 3:55

56Thou heardest my voice; hide not Thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.Select Lamentations 3:56

57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst: 'Fear not.'Select Lamentations 3:57

58O Lord, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; Thou hast redeemed my life.Select Lamentations 3:58

59O LORD, Thou hast seen my wrong; judge Thou my cause.Select Lamentations 3:59

60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.Select Lamentations 3:60

61Thou hast heard their taunt, O LORD, and all their devices against me;Select Lamentations 3:61

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

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

64Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.Select Lamentations 3:64

65Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, Thy curse unto them.Select Lamentations 3:65

66Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.Select Lamentations 3:66