Lamentations 3:1-15 ▼

1 I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.

2 He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.

3 Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me.

4 My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised.

5 He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile.

6 He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer.

7 He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me.

8 Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer.

9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.

10 He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare, and as a lion in a hole.

11 He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether.

12 He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at.

13 The arrowes of his quiuer hath he shot, euen into my reynes.

14 I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long.

15 He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke.