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Lamentations 3 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:1 - I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:2 - He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:3 - Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:4 - My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:5 - He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:6 - He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:7 - He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:8 - Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:9 - He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:10 - He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:11 - He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12 - He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:13 - He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:14 - I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:15 - He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:16 - He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:17 - And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:18 - And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

Hope of Relief in God's Mercy

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:19 - Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:20 - My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:21 - This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:22 - It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:23 - They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:24 - The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:25 - The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:26 - It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:27 - It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:28 - He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:29 - He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:30 - He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:31 - For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:32 - But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:33 - For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:34 - To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:35 - To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:36 - To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:37 - Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:38 - Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:39 - Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:40 - Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:41 - Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:42 - We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:43 - Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:44 - Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:45 - Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:46 - All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:47 - Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48 - Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:49 - Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:50 - Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:51 - Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:52 - Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:53 - They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:54 - Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:55 - I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:56 - Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:57 - Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:58 - O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:59 - O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:60 - Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:61 - Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:62 - The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:63 - Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:64 - Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:65 - Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:66 - Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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