Lamentations 3:22-66 ▼

22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my portion, said my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.

28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.

29 He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

30 He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.

31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33 For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not.

37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?

38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?

39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.

43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.

44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

45 You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction.

48 My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.

50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

51 My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

52 My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone on me.

54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.

55 I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

56 You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not.

58 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.

60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.

64 Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.