Lamentations 3

1 I {am} the man {that} hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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2 He hath led me, and brought {me into} darkness, but not {into} light.

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3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand {against me} all the day.

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4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

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5 He hath builded against me, and compassed {me} with gall and travail.

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6 He hath set me in dark places, as {they that be} dead of old.

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7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

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8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

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10 He {was} unto me {as} a bear lying in wait, {and as} a lion in secret places.

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11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

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12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. {arrows: Heb. sons}

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14 I was a derision to all my people; {and} their song all the day.

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15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}

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16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. {covered...: or, rolled me in the ashes}

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17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. {prosperity: Heb. good}

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18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

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19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. {Remembering: or, Remember}

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20 My soul hath {them} still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. {humbled: Heb. bowed}

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21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. {recall...: Heb. make to return to my heart}

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22 {It is of} the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

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23 {They are} new every morning: great {is} thy faithfulness.

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24 The LORD {is} my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

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25 The LORD {is} good unto them that wait for him, to the soul {that} seeketh him.

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26 {It is} good that {a man} should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

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27 {It is} good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

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28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne {it} upon him.

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29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

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30 He giveth {his} cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

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31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

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32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

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33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. {willingly: Heb. from his heart}

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34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

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35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, {the most High: or, a superior}

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36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. {approveth not: or, seeth not}

37 Who {is} he {that} saith, and it cometh to pass, {when} the Lord commandeth {it} not?

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38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

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39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? {complain: or, murmur}

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40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

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41 Let us lift up our heart with {our} hands unto God in the heavens.

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42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

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43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

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44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that {our} prayer should not pass through.

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45 Thou hast made us {as} the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

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46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

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47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

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48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

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50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

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51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. {mine heart: Heb. my soul} {because...: or, more than all}

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52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

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53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

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54 Waters flowed over mine head; {then} I said, I am cut off.

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55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

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56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

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57 Thou drewest near in the day {that} I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

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58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

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59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

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60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance {and} all their imaginations against me.

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61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, {and} all their imaginations against me;

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62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I {am} their musick.

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64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

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65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. {sorrow...: or, obstinacy of heart}

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66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

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