Lamentations 3:1-23 ▼

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.

14 I was a derision to all my people; their song all the day.

15 He filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink.

16 He will break my teeth with gravel stones, he covered me with ashes.

17 Thou wilt cast of my soul from peace: I forgat good.

18 And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah:

19 Remembering my affliction and my bitterness, the wormwood and the poison.

20 Remembering, my soul will remember, and will be bowed down upon me.

21 I will turn this back to my heart; for this I shall hope.

22 The mercies of Jehovah are that we were not consumed, for his compassions were not finished.

23 New for the mornings: great thy faithfulness.