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 brought [me into] darkness, 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 skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.Select Lamentations 3:4

5He hath built against me, and compassed [me] with gall and labor.Select Lamentations 3:5

6He hath set me in dark places, as [they that are] dead of old.Select Lamentations 3:6

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

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

9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath 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 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 was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.Select Lamentations 3:14

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

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

17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.Select Lamentations 3:17

18And I said, My strength and my hope hath 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 hath [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

22[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.Select Lamentations 3:22

23[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.Select Lamentations 3:23

24The LORD [is] my portion, saith 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] seeketh him.Select Lamentations 3:25

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

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

28He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.Select Lamentations 3:28

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

30He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth 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 causeth 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 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 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

39Why doth 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: thou hast not pardoned.Select Lamentations 3:42

43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.Select Lamentations 3:43

44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.Select Lamentations 3:44

45Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst 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 upon us, desolation and destruction.Select Lamentations 3:47

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

49My eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,Select Lamentations 3:49

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

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

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

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

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

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

56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thy ear at my breathing, 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 imaginations against me.Select Lamentations 3:60

61Thou hast 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, thy curse to them.Select Lamentations 3:65

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