Lamentations 3:1-13 ▼

1 I the man seeing affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2 He led me and he brought darkness and not light.

3 Surely he will turn back against me; he will turn his hand all the day.

4 He wasted away my flesh and my skin; he broke my bones.

5 He built against me, and he will surround with poison and distress.

6 He caused me to dwell in darknesses as the dead of old.

7 He walled about me and I shall not go forth: he loaded my brass.

8 Also when I shall exclaim and cry out, he stopped my prayer.

9 He walled up my ways with hewn stones, he made crooked my beaten paths.

10 He is to me a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.

11 He turned aside my ways and he will tear me in pieces: he set me a desolation.

12 He bent his bow, he will set me up as a mark for the arrow.

13 He brought the sons of his quiver into my reins.