LAMENTATIONS 3 : 1 – 66

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VERSE 1

La:3:1: I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

 

 

VERSE 2

La:3:2: He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

 

 

VERSE 3

La:3:3: Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

 

 

VERSE 4

La:3:4: My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

 

VERSE 5

La:3:5: He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

 

 

VERSE 6

La:3:6: He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

 

VERSE 7

La:3:7: He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

 

 

VERSE 8

La:3:8: Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

 

 

VERSE 9

La:3:9: He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

 

 

VERSE 10

La:3:10: He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

 

 

VERSE 11

La:3:11: He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

 

 

VERSE 12

La:3:12: He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

 

 

VERSE 13

La:3:13: He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

 

 

VERSE 14

La:3:14: I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

 

 

VERSE 15

La:3:15: He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

 

 

VERSE 16

La:3:16: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

 

 

VERSE 17

La:3:17: And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

 

 

VERSE 18

La:3:18: And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

 

VERSE 19

La:3:19: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

 

 

VERSE 20

La:3:20: My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

 

 

VERSE 21

La:3:21: This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

 

 

VERSE 22

La:3:22: It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

 

 

VERSE 23

La:3:23: They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

 

 

VERSE 24

La:3:24: The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

 

 

VERSE 25

La:3:25: The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

 

 

VERSE 26

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

 

 

VERSE 27

La:3:27: It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

 

 

VERSE 28

La:3:28: He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

 

 

VERSE 29

La:3:29: He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

 

 

VERSE 30

La:3:30: He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

 

 

VERSE 31

La:3:31: For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

 

 

VERSE 32

La:3:32: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

 

 

VERSE 33

La:3:33: For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

 

 

VERSE 34

La:3:34: To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

 

 

VERSE 35

La:3:35: To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

 

 

VERSE 36

La:3:36: To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

 

 

VERSE 37

La:3:37: Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

 

 

VERSE 38

La:3:38: Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

 

 

VERSE 39

La:3:39: Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

 

 

VERSE 40

La:3:40: Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

 

 

VERSE 41

La:3:41: Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

 

 

VERSE 42

La:3:42: We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

 

 

VERSE 43

La:3:43: Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

 

 

VERSE 44

La:3:44: Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

 

 

VERSE 45

La:3:45: Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

 

 

VERSE 46

La:3:46: All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

 

 

VERSE 47

La:3:47: Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

 

 

VERSE 48

La:3:48: Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

 

 

VERSE 49

La:3:49: Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

 

 

VERSE 50

La:3:50: Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

 

 

VERSE 51

La:3:51: Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

 

 

VERSE 52

La:3:52: Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

 

 

VERSE 53

La:3:53: They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

 

 

VERSE 54

La:3:54: Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

 

 

VERSE 55

La:3:55: I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

 

 

VERSE 56

La:3:56: Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

 

 

VERSE 57

La:3:57: Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

 

 

VERSE 58

La:3:58: O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

 

 

VERSE 59

La:3:59: O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

 

 

VERSE 60

La:3:60: Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

 

 

VERSE 61

La:3:61: Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

 

 

VERSE 62

La:3:62: The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

 

 

VERSE 63

La:3:63: Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

 

 

VERSE 64

La:3:64: Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

 

 

VERSE 65

La:3:65: Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

 

 

VERSE 66

La:3:66: Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

 

*** END OF CHAPTER *** LAMENTATIONS


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