Lamentations 3 : 1 (AKJV)
I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3 : 2 (AKJV)
He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Lamentations 3 : 3 (AKJV)
Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.
Lamentations 3 : 4 (AKJV)
My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
Lamentations 3 : 5 (AKJV)
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3 : 6 (AKJV)
He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Lamentations 3 : 7 (AKJV)
He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3 : 8 (AKJV)
Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3 : 9 (AKJV)
He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3 : 10 (AKJV)
He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3 : 11 (AKJV)
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.
Lamentations 3 : 12 (AKJV)
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3 : 13 (AKJV)
He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Lamentations 3 : 14 (AKJV)
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Lamentations 3 : 15 (AKJV)
He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
Lamentations 3 : 16 (AKJV)
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3 : 17 (AKJV)
And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.
Lamentations 3 : 18 (AKJV)
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Lamentations 3 : 19 (AKJV)
Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3 : 20 (AKJV)
My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Lamentations 3 : 21 (AKJV)
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Lamentations 3 : 22 (AKJV)
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lamentations 3 : 23 (AKJV)
They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3 : 24 (AKJV)
The LORD is my portion, said my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations 3 : 25 (AKJV)
The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
Lamentations 3 : 26 (AKJV)
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations 3 : 27 (AKJV)
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
Lamentations 3 : 28 (AKJV)
He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.
Lamentations 3 : 29 (AKJV)
He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Lamentations 3 : 30 (AKJV)
He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.
Lamentations 3 : 31 (AKJV)
For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
Lamentations 3 : 32 (AKJV)
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Lamentations 3 : 33 (AKJV)
For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations 3 : 34 (AKJV)
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
Lamentations 3 : 35 (AKJV)
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamentations 3 : 36 (AKJV)
To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not.
Lamentations 3 : 37 (AKJV)
Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
Lamentations 3 : 38 (AKJV)
Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?
Lamentations 3 : 39 (AKJV)
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 3 : 40 (AKJV)
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Lamentations 3 : 41 (AKJV)
Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3 : 42 (AKJV)
We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.
Lamentations 3 : 43 (AKJV)
You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
Lamentations 3 : 44 (AKJV)
You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Lamentations 3 : 45 (AKJV)
You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people.
Lamentations 3 : 46 (AKJV)
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Lamentations 3 : 47 (AKJV)
Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction.
Lamentations 3 : 48 (AKJV)
My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3 : 49 (AKJV)
My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.
Lamentations 3 : 50 (AKJV)
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
Lamentations 3 : 51 (AKJV)
My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3 : 52 (AKJV)
My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations 3 : 53 (AKJV)
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone on me.
Lamentations 3 : 54 (AKJV)
Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3 : 55 (AKJV)
I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations 3 : 56 (AKJV)
You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations 3 : 57 (AKJV)
You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not.
Lamentations 3 : 58 (AKJV)
O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3 : 59 (AKJV)
O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
Lamentations 3 : 60 (AKJV)
You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Lamentations 3 : 61 (AKJV)
You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Lamentations 3 : 62 (AKJV)
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Lamentations 3 : 63 (AKJV)
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
Lamentations 3 : 64 (AKJV)
Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3 : 65 (AKJV)
Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them.
Lamentations 3 : 66 (AKJV)
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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