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 caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.Select Lamentations 3:2

3Surely against me he turns his hand again and again 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 surrounded me with gall and travail.Select Lamentations 3:5

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

7He has walled me about, that I can’t go out; he has made my chain heavy.Select Lamentations 3:7

8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.Select Lamentations 3:8

9He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.Select Lamentations 3:9

10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, 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 shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.Select Lamentations 3:13

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

15He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me 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

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

18I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.Select Lamentations 3:18

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

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

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

22It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.Select Lamentations 3:22

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

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

25Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.Select Lamentations 3:25

26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.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 has laid it on 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 who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.Select Lamentations 3:30

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

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

33For he does 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 doesn’t approve.Select Lamentations 3:36

37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?Select Lamentations 3:37

38Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?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 Yahweh.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 pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.Select Lamentations 3:43

44You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.Select Lamentations 3:44

45You have made us an off-scouring 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

47Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.Select Lamentations 3:47

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

49My eye pours down, and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,Select Lamentations 3:49

50Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.Select Lamentations 3:50

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

52They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.Select Lamentations 3:52

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

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

55I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.Select Lamentations 3:55

56You heard my voice; don’t hide 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, Don’t be afraid.Select Lamentations 3:57

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

59Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.Select Lamentations 3:59

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

61You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices 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

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

64You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.Select Lamentations 3:64

65You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.Select Lamentations 3:65

66You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.Select Lamentations 3:66