◄ Lamentations 3 ►
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[an error occurred while processing this directive]New American Standard Bible 1995
1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD."
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me.
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I have hope in Him."
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD.
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him.
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31For the Lord will not reject forever,
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men.
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High,
36[an error occurred while processing this directive]36To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve.
37[an error occurred while processing this directive]37Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it?
38[an error occurred while processing this directive]38Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth?
39[an error occurred while processing this directive]39Why should any living mortal, or any man, Offer complaint in view of his sins?
40[an error occurred while processing this directive]40Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD.
41[an error occurred while processing this directive]41We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven;
42[an error occurred while processing this directive]42We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned.
43[an error occurred while processing this directive]43You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and have not spared.
44[an error occurred while processing this directive]44You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.
45[an error occurred while processing this directive]45You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.
46[an error occurred while processing this directive]46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47[an error occurred while processing this directive]47Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;
48[an error occurred while processing this directive]48My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49[an error occurred while processing this directive]49My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping,
50[an error occurred while processing this directive]50Until the LORD looks down And sees from heaven.
51[an error occurred while processing this directive]51My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.
52[an error occurred while processing this directive]52My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird;
53[an error occurred while processing this directive]53They have silenced me in the pit And have placed a stone on me.
54[an error occurred while processing this directive]54Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"
55[an error occurred while processing this directive]55I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit.
56[an error occurred while processing this directive]56You have heard my voice, "Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help."
57[an error occurred while processing this directive]57You drew near when I called on You; You said, "Do not fear!"
58[an error occurred while processing this directive]58O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life.
59[an error occurred while processing this directive]59O LORD, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.
60[an error occurred while processing this directive]60You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
61[an error occurred while processing this directive]61You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me.
62[an error occurred while processing this directive]62The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long.
63[an error occurred while processing this directive]63Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
64[an error occurred while processing this directive]64You will recompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.
65[an error occurred while processing this directive]65You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them.
66[an error occurred while processing this directive]66You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD!
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