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Lamentations 3 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Jeremiah Shares Israel’s Misery

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I am the man who has seen misery

Because of the rod of His wrath.

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He has driven me and made me walk

In darkness and not in light.

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Indeed, He has turned His hand against me

Repeatedly all the day.

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He has consumed my flesh and my skin,

He has broken my bones.

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He has [fn]besieged and surrounded me with [fn]bitterness and hardship.

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He has made me live in dark places,

Like those who have long been dead.

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He has walled me in so that I cannot go out;

He has made my [fn]chain heavy.

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Even when I cry out and call for help,

He shuts out my prayer.

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He has blocked my ways with cut stone;

He has twisted my paths.

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He is to me like a bear lying in wait,

Like a lion in secret places.

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He has made my ways deviate, and torn me to pieces;

He has made me desolate.

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He bent His bow

And took aim at me as a target for the arrow.

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He made the [fn]arrows of His quiver

Enter my [fn]inward parts.

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I have become a laughingstock to all my people,

Their song of ridicule all the day.

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He has filled me with bitterness,

He has made me drink plenty of wormwood.

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He has also made my teeth grind with gravel;

He has made me cower in the dust.

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My soul has been excluded from peace;

I have forgotten [fn]happiness.

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So I say, “My [fn]strength has failed,

And so has my hope from the LORD.”

Hope of Relief in God’s Mercy

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Remember my misery and my homelessness, the wormwood and [fn]bitterness.

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My soul certainly remembers,

And [fn]is bent over within me.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:21 -

I recall this to my mind,

Therefore I [fn]wait.

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[fn]The LORD’S acts of mercy indeed do not end,

For His compassions do not fail.

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They are new every morning;

Great is Your faithfulness.

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“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,

“Therefore I [fn]wait for Him.”

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The LORD is good to those who [fn]await Him,

To the [fn]person who seeks Him.

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It is good that he waits silently

For the salvation of the LORD.

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It is good for a man to bear

The yoke in his youth.

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Let him sit alone and keep quiet,

Since He has laid it on him.

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Let him [fn]put his mouth in the dust;

Perhaps there is hope.

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Let him give his cheek to the one who is going to strike him;

Let him be filled with shame.

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For the Lord will not reject forever,

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For if He causes grief,

Then He will have compassion

In proportion to His abundant mercy.

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For He does not [fn]afflict [fn]willingly

Or [fn]grieve the sons of mankind.

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To crush under [fn]one’s feet

All the prisoners of the [fn]land,

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To [fn]deprive a man of justice

In the presence of the Most High,

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To [fn]defraud someone in his lawsuit

Of these things the Lord does not [fn]approve.

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Who is [fn]there who speaks and it comes to pass,

Unless the Lord has commanded it?

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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High

That [fn]both adversity and good proceed?

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Of what can any living [fn]mortal, or any man,

Complain [fn]in view of his sins?

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Let’s examine and search out our ways,

And let’s return to the LORD.

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We raise our heart [fn]and hands

Toward God in heaven;

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We have done wrong and rebelled;

You have not pardoned.

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You have covered Yourself with anger

And pursued us;

You have slain and have not spared.

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You have veiled Yourself with a cloud

So that no prayer can pass through.

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You have made us mere refuse and rubbish

In the midst of the peoples.

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All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

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Panic and pitfall have come upon us,

Devastation and destruction;

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My [fn]eyes run down with streams of water

Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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My eyes flow unceasingly,

Without stopping,

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Until the LORD looks down

And sees from heaven.

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My eyes bring pain to my soul

Because of all the daughters of my city.

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My enemies without reason

Hunted me down like a bird;

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They have silenced [fn]me in the pit

And have [fn]thrown stones on me.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:54 -

Waters flowed over my head;

I said, “I am [fn]cut off!”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:55 -

I called on Your name, LORD,

Out of the lowest pit.

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You have heard my voice,

“Do not cover Your ear from my plea for relief,

From my cry for help.”

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You came near on the day I called to You;

You said, “Do not fear!”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:58 -

Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause;

You have redeemed my life.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:59 -

LORD, You have seen my oppression;

Judge my case.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:60 -

You have seen all their vengeance,

All their schemes against me.

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You have heard their reproach, LORD,

All their schemes against me.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:62 -

The lips of my assailants and their talk

Are against me all day long.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:63 -

Look at their [fn]sitting and their rising;

I am their mocking song.

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You will repay them, LORD,

In accordance with the work of their hands.

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You will give them [fn]shamelessness of heart,

Your curse will be on them.

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You will pursue them in anger and eliminate them

From under the heavens of the LORD!

NASB20 Footnotes
Lit built against
Lit poison
Lit bronze piece
Lit sons
Lit kidneys
Lit good
Or splendor
Lit poison
Or bows down
Lit have hope
As in ancient versions; MT It is...mercy that we do not end
Or hope in
Or hope in
Lit soul
Lit give
Or oppress
Lit from His heart
Or torment
Lit his
Or earth
Or turn aside a man’s case
Lit bend
Lit see
Lit this
Lit the evil things and the good
Or human being
Or on the basis of
Lit toward our
Lit eye goes down
Lit my life
Or thrown a stone
Or destroyed
I.e., daily activities
Or insanity
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