Lamentations 3
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Lamen 3:1
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I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.
Lamen 3:2
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He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
Lamen 3:3
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Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.
Lamen 3:4
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He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.
Lamen 3:5
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He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
Lamen 3:6
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In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.
Lamen 3:7
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He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.
Lamen 3:8
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Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Lamen 3:9
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He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
Lamen 3:10
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He is to me like a bear lying in wait, {Like} a lion in secret places.
Lamen 3:11
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He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
Lamen 3:12
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He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.
Lamen 3:13
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He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.
Lamen 3:14
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I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their {mocking} song all the day.
Lamen 3:15
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He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.
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He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
Lamen 3:17
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My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.
Lamen 3:18
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So I say, "My strength has perished, And {so has} my hope from the LORD."
Lamen 3:19
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Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
Lamen 3:20
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Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me.
Lamen 3:21
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This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
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The LORD's lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.
Lamen 3:23
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{They} are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
Lamen 3:24
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"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I have hope in Him."
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The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.
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{It is} good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD.
Lamen 3:27
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{It is} good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.
Lamen 3:28
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Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid {it} on him.
Lamen 3:29
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Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.
Lamen 3:30
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Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.
Lamen 3:31
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For the Lord will not reject forever,
Lamen 3:32
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For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.
Lamen 3:33
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For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men.
Lamen 3:34
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To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,
Lamen 3:35
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To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High,
Lamen 3:36
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To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve.
Lamen 3:37
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Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded {it?}
Lamen 3:38
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{Is it} not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth?
Lamen 3:39
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Why should {any} living mortal, or {any} man, Offer complaint in view of his sins?
Lamen 3:40
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Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD.
Lamen 3:41
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We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven;
Lamen 3:42
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We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned.
Lamen 3:43
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You have covered {Yourself} with anger And pursued us; You have slain {and} have not spared.
Lamen 3:44
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You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.
Lamen 3:45
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{You have made us mere} offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.
Lamen 3:46
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All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Lamen 3:47
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Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;
Lamen 3:48
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My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamen 3:49
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My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping,
Lamen 3:50
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Until the LORD looks down And sees from heaven.
Lamen 3:52
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My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird;
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They have silenced me in the pit And have placed a stone on me.
Lamen 3:54
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Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"
Lamen 3:55
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I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit.
Lamen 3:56
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You have heard my voice, "Do not hide Your ear from my {prayer for} relief, From my cry for help."
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You drew near when I called on You; You said, "Do not fear!"
Lamen 3:58
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O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life.
Lamen 3:59
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O LORD, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.
Lamen 3:60
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You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
Lamen 3:61
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You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me.
Lamen 3:62
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The lips of my assailants and their whispering {Are} against me all day long.
Lamen 3:63
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Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
Lamen 3:64
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You will recompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.
Lamen 3:65
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You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them.
Lamen 3:66
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You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD!
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