Lamentations Chapter 3 Darby English Bible

Lamentations 3:1

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

Lamentations 3:2

Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.

Lamentations 3:3

Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.

Lamentations 3:4

My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 3:5

He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.

Lamentations 3:6

He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.

Lamentations 3:7

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

Lamentations 3:8

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

Lamentations 3:9

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

Lamentations 3:10

He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.

Lamentations 3:11

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

Lamentations 3:12

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

Lamentations 3:13

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Lamentations 3:14

I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.

Lamentations 3:15

He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:16

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

Lamentations 3:17

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.

Lamentations 3:18

And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Lamentations 3:20

My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

Lamentations 3:21

-- This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.

Lamentations 3:22

It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;

Lamentations 3:23

they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:24

Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

Lamentations 3:25

Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.

Lamentations 3:26

It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.

Lamentations 3:27

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:

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He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;

Lamentations 3:29

he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;

Lamentations 3:30

he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.

Lamentations 3:31

For the Lord will not cast off for ever;

Lamentations 3:32

but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:

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for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

Lamentations 3:35

to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

Lamentations 3:36

to wrong a man in his cause, -- will not the Lord see it?

Lamentations 3:37

Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?

Lamentations 3:38

Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?

Lamentations 3:39

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Lamentations 3:40

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

Lamentations 3:41

Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto ùGod in the heavens.

Lamentations 3:42

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

Lamentations 3:43

Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.

Lamentations 3:44

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.

Lamentations 3:45

Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.

Lamentations 3:47

Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.

Lamentations 3:48

Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 3:49

Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

Lamentations 3:50

till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.

Lamentations 3:51

Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 3:52

They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.

Lamentations 3:53

They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me.

Lamentations 3:54

Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

Lamentations 3:55

I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.

Lamentations 3:56

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

Lamentations 3:57

Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

Lamentations 3:58

Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.

Lamentations 3:59

Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

Lamentations 3:60

Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.

Lamentations 3:61

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;

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the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day.

Lamentations 3:63

Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.

Lamentations 3:64

Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;

Lamentations 3:65

give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;

Lamentations 3:66

pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.