Lamentations 3 : 1 (RV)
I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3 : 2 (RV)
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.
Lamentations 3 : 3 (RV)
Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
Lamentations 3 : 4 (RV)
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 3 : 5 (RV)
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3 : 6 (RV)
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Lamentations 3 : 7 (RV)
He hath fenced me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3 : 8 (RV)
Yea, when I cry and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
Lamentations 3 : 9 (RV)
He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3 : 10 (RV)
He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3 : 11 (RV)
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3 : 12 (RV)
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3 : 13 (RV)
He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Lamentations 3 : 14 (RV)
I am become a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Lamentations 3 : 15 (RV)
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3 : 16 (RV)
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3 : 17 (RV)
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
Lamentations 3 : 18 (RV)
And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD.
Lamentations 3 : 19 (RV)
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3 : 20 (RV)
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
Lamentations 3 : 21 (RV)
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Lamentations 3 : 22 (RV)
cf15i It is of the LORD�S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lamentations 3 : 23 (RV)
They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3 : 24 (RV)
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations 3 : 25 (RV)
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
Lamentations 3 : 26 (RV)
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations 3 : 27 (RV)
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3 : 28 (RV)
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.
Lamentations 3 : 29 (RV)
Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may he hope.
Lamentations 3 : 30 (RV)
Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.
Lamentations 3 : 31 (RV)
For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
Lamentations 3 : 32 (RV)
For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Lamentations 3 : 33 (RV)
For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations 3 : 34 (RV)
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations 3 : 35 (RV)
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
Lamentations 3 : 36 (RV)
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
Lamentations 3 : 37 (RV)
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Lamentations 3 : 38 (RV)
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
Lamentations 3 : 39 (RV)
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 3 : 40 (RV)
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Lamentations 3 : 41 (RV)
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3 : 42 (RV)
We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
Lamentations 3 : 43 (RV)
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations 3 : 44 (RV)
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that cf15i our prayer should not pass through.
Lamentations 3 : 45 (RV)
Thou hast made us cf15i as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Lamentations 3 : 46 (RV)
all our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Lamentations 3 : 47 (RV)
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Lamentations 3 : 48 (RV)
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3 : 49 (RV)
Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Lamentations 3 : 50 (RV)
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
Lamentations 3 : 51 (RV)
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3 : 52 (RV)
They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine enemies without cause.
Lamentations 3 : 53 (RV)
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
Lamentations 3 : 54 (RV)
Waters flowed over mine head; I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3 : 55 (RV)
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.
Lamentations 3 : 56 (RV)
Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations 3 : 57 (RV)
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Lamentations 3 : 58 (RV)
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3 : 59 (RV)
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.
Lamentations 3 : 60 (RV)
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
Lamentations 3 : 61 (RV)
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their devices against me;
Lamentations 3 : 62 (RV)
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their imagination against me all the day.
Lamentations 3 : 63 (RV)
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Lamentations 3 : 64 (RV)
Thou wilt render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3 : 65 (RV)
Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.
Lamentations 3 : 66 (RV)
Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
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