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