Lamentations 3

1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.NHEB — Lamentations 3:1

2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.NHEB — Lamentations 3:2

3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.NHEB — Lamentations 3:3

4 My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.NHEB — Lamentations 3:4

5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.NHEB — Lamentations 3:5

6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, like those that have been long dead.NHEB — Lamentations 3:6

7 He has walled me in, so I can't escape; he has made my chains heavy.NHEB — Lamentations 3:7

8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.NHEB — Lamentations 3:8

9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.NHEB — Lamentations 3:9

10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.NHEB — Lamentations 3:10

11 He has obstructed my path, and torn me in pieces; he has made me desolate.NHEB — Lamentations 3:11

12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.NHEB — Lamentations 3:12

13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to pierce my inward parts.NHEB — Lamentations 3:13

14 I have become a laughingstock to all peoples, and their song all the day.NHEB — Lamentations 3:14

15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has given me in full measure wormwood.NHEB — Lamentations 3:15

16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel; he has pressed me down in the dust.NHEB — Lamentations 3:16

17 You have removed my soul far away from peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.NHEB — Lamentations 3:17

18 And I said, "My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD."NHEB — Lamentations 3:18

19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.NHEB — Lamentations 3:19

20 My soul considers them, and is depressed.NHEB — Lamentations 3:20

21 But this I call to my mind; therefore I have hope:NHEB — Lamentations 3:21

22 The LORD's faithful love does not cease; his compassion does not fail.NHEB — Lamentations 3:22

23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.NHEB — Lamentations 3:23

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

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

26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.NHEB — Lamentations 3:26

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke while he is young.NHEB — Lamentations 3:27

28 Let him sit alone and keep silence when he is disciplining him.NHEB — Lamentations 3:28

29 Let him put his mouth to the dust, there may yet be hope.NHEB — Lamentations 3:29

30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled with insults.NHEB — Lamentations 3:30

31 For the LORD will not reject forever.NHEB — Lamentations 3:31

32 For though he may cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the abundance of his loving kindness.NHEB — Lamentations 3:32

33 For he is not predisposed to bring affliction or suffering to human beings.NHEB — Lamentations 3:33

34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth;NHEB — Lamentations 3:34

35 to deprive a man of justice before the face of the Most High,NHEB — Lamentations 3:35

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

37 Who can speak a thing and have it come to pass, unless the LORD has commanded it?NHEB — Lamentations 3:37

38 Doesn't both calamity and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?NHEB — Lamentations 3:38

39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?NHEB — Lamentations 3:39

40 Let us examine and search our ways, and return to the LORD.NHEB — Lamentations 3:40

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.NHEB — Lamentations 3:41

42 We have transgressed and have rebelled, and you have not forgiven.NHEB — Lamentations 3:42

43 You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you killed without sparing.NHEB — Lamentations 3:43

44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.NHEB — Lamentations 3:44

45 You have made us rubbish and refuse in the midst of the peoples.NHEB — Lamentations 3:45

46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.NHEB — Lamentations 3:46

47 Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.NHEB — Lamentations 3:47

48 Streams of tears run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.NHEB — Lamentations 3:48

49 My tears flow and do not cease, without respite,NHEB — Lamentations 3:49

50 until the LORD looks down and sees from heaven.NHEB — Lamentations 3:50

51 My eyes bring my soul grief, because of all the daughters of my city.NHEB — Lamentations 3:51

52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.NHEB — Lamentations 3:52

53 They have cut off my life in a pit, and have cast a stone on me.NHEB — Lamentations 3:53

54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, 'I am finished.'NHEB — Lamentations 3:54

55 I called on your name, LORD, out of the depths of the pit.NHEB — Lamentations 3:55

56 You heard my voice; do not hide your ear at my sighs, to my cry.NHEB — Lamentations 3:56

57 You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, "Do not be afraid."NHEB — Lamentations 3:57

58 LORD, you have taken up the case for my soul; you have redeemed my life.NHEB — Lamentations 3:58

59 You have seen, LORD, the wrong done to me; judge my case.NHEB — Lamentations 3:59

60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their plots against me.NHEB — Lamentations 3:60

61 You have heard their insults, LORD, and all their plots against me.NHEB — Lamentations 3:61

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.NHEB — Lamentations 3:62

63 Look their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their mocking song.NHEB — Lamentations 3:63

64 You will render to them what they deserve, LORD, according to the work of their hands.NHEB — Lamentations 3:64

65 You will give them hardness of heart as your curse to them.NHEB — Lamentations 3:65

66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.NHEB — Lamentations 3:66