Lamentations 3 : 1 (HCSB)
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God's wrath.
Lamentations 3 : 2 (HCSB)
He has driven me away and forced *me to walk in darkness instead of light.
Lamentations 3 : 3 (HCSB)
Yes, He repeatedly turns His hand against me all day long.
Lamentations 3 : 4 (HCSB)
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
Lamentations 3 : 5 (HCSB)
He has laid siege against me, encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
Lamentations 3 : 6 (HCSB)
He has made me dwell in darkness like those who have been dead for ages.
Lamentations 3 : 7 (HCSB)
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
Lamentations 3 : 8 (HCSB)
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He rejects my prayer.
Lamentations 3 : 9 (HCSB)
He has walled in my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3 : 10 (HCSB)
He is a bear waiting in ambush, a lion in hiding;
Lamentations 3 : 11 (HCSB)
He forced me off my way and tore me to pieces; He left me desolate.
Lamentations 3 : 12 (HCSB)
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
Lamentations 3 : 13 (HCSB)
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
Lamentations 3 : 14 (HCSB)
I am a laughingstock to all my people, mocked by their songs all day long.
Lamentations 3 : 15 (HCSB)
He filled me with bitterness, sated me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3 : 16 (HCSB)
He ground my teeth on gravel and made me cower in the dust.
Lamentations 3 : 17 (HCSB)
My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
Lamentations 3 : 18 (HCSB)
Then I thought: My future is lost, as well as my hope from the LORD.
Lamentations 3 : 19 (HCSB)
Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison.
Lamentations 3 : 20 (HCSB)
I continually remember *them and have become depressed.
Lamentations 3 : 21 (HCSB)
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
Lamentations 3 : 22 (HCSB)
*Because of the LORD's faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end.
Lamentations 3 : 23 (HCSB)
They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
Lamentations 3 : 24 (HCSB)
I say: The LORD is my portion, therefore I will put my hope in Him.
Lamentations 3 : 25 (HCSB)
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the person who seeks Him.
Lamentations 3 : 26 (HCSB)
It is good to wait quietly for deliverance from the LORD.
Lamentations 3 : 27 (HCSB)
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is *still young.
Lamentations 3 : 28 (HCSB)
Let him sit alone and be silent, for God has disciplined him.
Lamentations 3 : 29 (HCSB)
Let him put his mouth in the dust-- perhaps there is *still hope.
Lamentations 3 : 30 (HCSB)
Let him offer *his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with shame.
Lamentations 3 : 31 (HCSB)
For the Lord will not reject *us forever.
Lamentations 3 : 32 (HCSB)
Even if He causes suffering, He will show compassion according to His abundant, faithful love.
Lamentations 3 : 33 (HCSB)
For He does not enjoy bringing affliction or suffering on mankind.
Lamentations 3 : 34 (HCSB)
Crushing all the prisoners of the land beneath one's feet,
Lamentations 3 : 35 (HCSB)
denying justice to a man in the presence of the Most High,
Lamentations 3 : 36 (HCSB)
or suppressing a person's lawsuit-- the Lord does not approve *of these things .
Lamentations 3 : 37 (HCSB)
Who is there who speaks and it happens, unless the Lord has ordained *it ?
Lamentations 3 : 38 (HCSB)
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Lamentations 3 : 39 (HCSB)
Why should *any living person complain, any man, because of the punishment for his sins?
Lamentations 3 : 40 (HCSB)
Let us search out and examine our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
Lamentations 3 : 41 (HCSB)
Let us lift up our hearts and *our hands to God in heaven:
Lamentations 3 : 42 (HCSB)
We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.
Lamentations 3 : 43 (HCSB)
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without compassion.
Lamentations 3 : 44 (HCSB)
You have covered Yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
Lamentations 3 : 45 (HCSB)
You have made us disgusting filth among the peoples.
Lamentations 3 : 46 (HCSB)
All our enemies open their mouths against us.
Lamentations 3 : 47 (HCSB)
We have experienced panic and pitfall, devastation and destruction.
Lamentations 3 : 48 (HCSB)
My eyes flow with streams of tears because of the destruction of my dear people.
Lamentations 3 : 49 (HCSB)
My eyes overflow unceasingly, without end,
Lamentations 3 : 50 (HCSB)
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
Lamentations 3 : 51 (HCSB)
My eyes bring me grief because of *the fate of all the women in my city.
Lamentations 3 : 52 (HCSB)
For no *apparent reason, my enemies hunted me like a bird.
Lamentations 3 : 53 (HCSB)
They dropped me alive into a pit and threw stones at me.
Lamentations 3 : 54 (HCSB)
Water flooded over my head, and I thought: I'm going to die!
Lamentations 3 : 55 (HCSB)
I called on Your name, Yahweh, from the depths of the Pit.
Lamentations 3 : 56 (HCSB)
You hear my plea: Do not ignore my cry for relief.
Lamentations 3 : 57 (HCSB)
You come near when I call on You; You say: "Do not be afraid."
Lamentations 3 : 58 (HCSB)
You defend my cause, Lord; You redeem my life.
Lamentations 3 : 59 (HCSB)
LORD, You see the wrong done to me; judge my case.
Lamentations 3 : 60 (HCSB)
You see all their malice, all their plots against me.
Lamentations 3 : 61 (HCSB)
LORD, You hear their insults, all their plots against me.
Lamentations 3 : 62 (HCSB)
The slander and murmuring of my opponents attack me all day long.
Lamentations 3 : 63 (HCSB)
When they sit and when they rise, look, I am mocked by their songs.
Lamentations 3 : 64 (HCSB)
You will pay them back what they deserve, LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3 : 65 (HCSB)
You will give them a heart filled with anguish. May Your curse be on them!
Lamentations 3 : 66 (HCSB)
You will pursue *them in anger and destroy them under Your heavens.
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