Lamentations 3 : 1 (WEB)
I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3 : 2 (WEB)
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Lamentations 3 : 3 (WEB)
Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
Lamentations 3 : 4 (WEB)
My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
Lamentations 3 : 5 (WEB)
He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3 : 6 (WEB)
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Lamentations 3 : 7 (WEB)
He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3 : 8 (WEB)
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3 : 9 (WEB)
He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3 : 10 (WEB)
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3 : 11 (WEB)
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
Lamentations 3 : 12 (WEB)
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3 : 13 (WEB)
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Lamentations 3 : 14 (WEB)
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Lamentations 3 : 15 (WEB)
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3 : 16 (WEB)
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3 : 17 (WEB)
You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
Lamentations 3 : 18 (WEB)
I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
Lamentations 3 : 19 (WEB)
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3 : 20 (WEB)
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
Lamentations 3 : 21 (WEB)
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
Lamentations 3 : 22 (WEB)
It is of Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
Lamentations 3 : 23 (WEB)
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3 : 24 (WEB)
Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations 3 : 25 (WEB)
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
Lamentations 3 : 26 (WEB)
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
Lamentations 3 : 27 (WEB)
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3 : 28 (WEB)
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
Lamentations 3 : 29 (WEB)
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
Lamentations 3 : 30 (WEB)
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
Lamentations 3 : 31 (WEB)
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
Lamentations 3 : 32 (WEB)
For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Lamentations 3 : 33 (WEB)
For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations 3 : 34 (WEB)
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations 3 : 35 (WEB)
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
Lamentations 3 : 36 (WEB)
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.
Lamentations 3 : 37 (WEB)
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
Lamentations 3 : 38 (WEB)
Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
Lamentations 3 : 39 (WEB)
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 3 : 40 (WEB)
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Lamentations 3 : 41 (WEB)
Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3 : 42 (WEB)
We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.
Lamentations 3 : 43 (WEB)
You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.
Lamentations 3 : 44 (WEB)
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Lamentations 3 : 45 (WEB)
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Lamentations 3 : 46 (WEB)
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Lamentations 3 : 47 (WEB)
Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
Lamentations 3 : 48 (WEB)
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3 : 49 (WEB)
My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
Lamentations 3 : 50 (WEB)
Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.
Lamentations 3 : 51 (WEB)
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3 : 52 (WEB)
They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
Lamentations 3 : 53 (WEB)
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
Lamentations 3 : 54 (WEB)
Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3 : 55 (WEB)
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
Lamentations 3 : 56 (WEB)
You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations 3 : 57 (WEB)
You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.
Lamentations 3 : 58 (WEB)
Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3 : 59 (WEB)
Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause.
Lamentations 3 : 60 (WEB)
You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
Lamentations 3 : 61 (WEB)
You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,
Lamentations 3 : 62 (WEB)
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Lamentations 3 : 63 (WEB)
See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Lamentations 3 : 64 (WEB)
You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3 : 65 (WEB)
You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
Lamentations 3 : 66 (WEB)
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
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