Lamentations 3

¹I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.SelectedLamentations 3:1CopyShareAsk

²He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.SelectedLamentations 3:2CopyShareAsk

³Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.SelectedLamentations 3:3CopyShareAsk

⁴My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.SelectedLamentations 3:4CopyShareAsk

⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.SelectedLamentations 3:5CopyShareAsk

⁶He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.SelectedLamentations 3:6CopyShareAsk

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

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

⁹He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.SelectedLamentations 3:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.SelectedLamentations 3:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.SelectedLamentations 3:11CopyShareAsk

¹²He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.SelectedLamentations 3:12CopyShareAsk

¹³He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.SelectedLamentations 3:13CopyShareAsk

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

¹⁵He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.SelectedLamentations 3:15CopyShareAsk

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

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

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

¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.SelectedLamentations 3:19CopyShareAsk

²⁰My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.SelectedLamentations 3:20CopyShareAsk

²¹This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.SelectedLamentations 3:21CopyShareAsk

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

²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.SelectedLamentations 3:23CopyShareAsk

²⁴The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.SelectedLamentations 3:24CopyShareAsk

²⁵The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.SelectedLamentations 3:25CopyShareAsk

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

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

²⁸He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.SelectedLamentations 3:28CopyShareAsk

²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.SelectedLamentations 3:29CopyShareAsk

³⁰He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.SelectedLamentations 3:30CopyShareAsk

³¹For the LORD will not cast off for ever:SelectedLamentations 3:31CopyShareAsk

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

³³For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.SelectedLamentations 3:33CopyShareAsk

³⁴To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,SelectedLamentations 3:34CopyShareAsk

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

³⁶To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.SelectedLamentations 3:36CopyShareAsk

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

³⁸Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?SelectedLamentations 3:38CopyShareAsk

³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?SelectedLamentations 3:39CopyShareAsk

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

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

⁴²We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.SelectedLamentations 3:42CopyShareAsk

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

⁴⁴Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.SelectedLamentations 3:44CopyShareAsk

⁴⁵Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.SelectedLamentations 3:45CopyShareAsk

⁴⁶All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.SelectedLamentations 3:46CopyShareAsk

⁴⁷Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.SelectedLamentations 3:47CopyShareAsk

⁴⁸Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.SelectedLamentations 3:48CopyShareAsk

⁴⁹Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,SelectedLamentations 3:49CopyShareAsk

⁵⁰Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.SelectedLamentations 3:50CopyShareAsk

⁵¹Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.SelectedLamentations 3:51CopyShareAsk

⁵²Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.SelectedLamentations 3:52CopyShareAsk

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

⁵⁴Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.SelectedLamentations 3:54CopyShareAsk

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

⁵⁶Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.SelectedLamentations 3:56CopyShareAsk

⁵⁷Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.SelectedLamentations 3:57CopyShareAsk

⁵⁸O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.SelectedLamentations 3:58CopyShareAsk

⁵⁹O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.SelectedLamentations 3:59CopyShareAsk

⁶⁰Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.SelectedLamentations 3:60CopyShareAsk

⁶¹Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;SelectedLamentations 3:61CopyShareAsk

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

⁶³Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.SelectedLamentations 3:63CopyShareAsk

⁶⁴Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.SelectedLamentations 3:64CopyShareAsk

⁶⁵Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.SelectedLamentations 3:65CopyShareAsk

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