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