Lamentations 3:1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;

Lamentations 3:2 he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;

Lamentations 3:3 surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.

Lamentations 3:4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away, and broken my bones;

Lamentations 3:5 he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

Lamentations 3:6 he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.

Lamentations 3:7 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;

Lamentations 3:8 though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;

Lamentations 3:9 he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 3:10 He is to me like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding;

Lamentations 3:11 he led me off my way and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;

Lamentations 3:12 he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.

Lamentations 3:13 He drove into my heart the arrows of his quiver;

Lamentations 3:14 I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the burden of their songs all day long.

Lamentations 3:15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:16 He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;

Lamentations 3:17 my soul is bereft of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;

Lamentations 3:18 so I say, "Gone is my glory, and my expectation from the LORD."

Lamentations 3:19 Remember my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the gall!

Lamentations 3:20 My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me.

Lamentations 3:21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Lamentations 3:22 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;

Lamentations 3:23 they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:24 "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him."

Lamentations 3:25 The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

Lamentations 3:26 It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Lamentations 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Lamentations 3:28 Let him sit alone in silence when he has laid it on him;

Lamentations 3:29 let him put his mouth in the dust--there may yet be hope;

Lamentations 3:30 let him give his cheek to the smiter, and be filled with insults.

Lamentations 3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever,

Lamentations 3:32 but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

Lamentations 3:33 for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

Lamentations 3:34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

Lamentations 3:35 to turn aside the right of a man in the presence of the Most High,

Lamentations 3:36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

Lamentations 3:37 Who has commanded and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

Lamentations 3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come?

Lamentations 3:39 Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?

Lamentations 3:40 Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD!

Lamentations 3:42 "We have transgressed and rebelled, and thou hast not forgiven.

Lamentations 3:43 "Thou hast wrapped thyself with anger and pursued us, slaying without pity;

Lamentations 3:44 thou hast wrapped thyself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

Lamentations 3:45 Thou hast made us offscouring and refuse among the peoples.

Lamentations 3:46 "All our enemies rail against us;

Lamentations 3:47 panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;

Lamentations 3:48 my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 3:49 "My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,

Lamentations 3:50 until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees;

Lamentations 3:51 my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the maidens of my city.

Lamentations 3:52 "I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;

Lamentations 3:53 they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;

Lamentations 3:54 water closed over my head; I said, 'I am lost.'

Lamentations 3:55 "I called on thy name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit;

Lamentations 3:56 thou didst hear my plea, 'Do not close thine ear to my cry for help!'

Lamentations 3:57 Thou didst come near when I called on thee; thou didst say, 'Do not fear!'

Lamentations 3:58 "Thou hast taken up my cause, O Lord, thou hast redeemed my life.

Lamentations 3:59 Thou hast seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge thou my cause.

Lamentations 3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their devices against me.

Lamentations 3:61 "Thou hast heard their taunts, O LORD, all their devices against me.

Lamentations 3:62 The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.

Lamentations 3:63 Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the burden of their songs.

Lamentations 3:64 "Thou wilt requite them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Lamentations 3:65 Thou wilt give them dullness of heart; thy curse will be on them.

Lamentations 3:66 Thou wilt pursue them in anger and destroy them from under thy heavens, O LORD."