Lamentations — Chapter 3
King James Version · 66 verses
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1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.→2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.→3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.→4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.→5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.→6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.→7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.→8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.→9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.→10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.→11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.→12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.→13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.→14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.→15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.→16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.→17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.→18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:→19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.→20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.→21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.→22It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.→23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.→24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.→25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.→26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.→27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.→28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.→29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.→30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.→31For the Lord will not cast off for ever:→32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.→33For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.→34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,→35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,→36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.→37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?→38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?→39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?→40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.→41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.→42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.→43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.→44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.→45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.→46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.→47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.→48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.→49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,→50Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.→51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.→52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.→53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.→54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.→55I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.→56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.→57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.→58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.→59O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.→60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.→61Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;→62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.→63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.→64Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.→65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.→66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.→