nkjv@Lamentations:3:1 @ I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:2 @ He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:3 @ Surely He has turned His hand against me Time and time again throughout the day.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:4 @ He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:5 @ He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:6 @ He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:7 @ He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:8 @ Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:9 @ He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:10 @ He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:11 @ He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; He has made me desolate.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:12 @ He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:13 @ He has caused the arrows of His quiver To pierce my loins.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:14 @ I have become the ridicule of all my people-- Their taunting song all the day.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:15 @ He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:16 @ He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:17 @ You have moved my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:18 @ And I said, "My strength and my hope Have perished from the LORD."

nkjv@Lamentations:3:19 @ Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:20 @ My soul still remembers And sinks within me.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:21 @ This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:22 @ Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:23 @ They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:24 @ "The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I hope in Him!"

nkjv@Lamentations:3:25 @ The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:26 @ It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:27 @ It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:28 @ Let him sit alone and keep silent, Because God has laid it on him;

nkjv@Lamentations:3:29 @ Let him put his mouth in the dust-- There may yet be hope.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:30 @ Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him, And be full of reproach.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:31 @ For the Lord will not cast off forever.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:32 @ Though He causes grief, Yet He will show compassion According to the multitude of His mercies.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:33 @ For He does not afflict willingly, Nor grieve the children of men.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:34 @ To crush under one's feet All the prisoners of the earth,

nkjv@Lamentations:3:35 @ To turn aside the justice due a man Before the face of the Most High,

nkjv@Lamentations:3:36 @ Or subvert a man in his cause-- The Lord does not approve.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:37 @ Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, When the Lord has not commanded it?

nkjv@Lamentations:3:38 @ Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That woe and well-being proceed?

nkjv@Lamentations:3:39 @ Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?

nkjv@Lamentations:3:40 @ Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the LORD;

nkjv@Lamentations:3:41 @ Let us lift our hearts and hands To God in heaven.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:42 @ We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:43 @ You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:44 @ You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That prayer should not pass through.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:45 @ You have made us an offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:46 @ All our enemies Have opened their mouths against us.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:47 @ Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:48 @ My eyes overflow with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:49 @ My eyes flow and do not cease, Without interruption,

nkjv@Lamentations:3:50 @ Till the LORD from heaven Looks down and sees.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:51 @ My eyes bring suffering to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:52 @ My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:53 @ They silenced my life in the pit And threw stones at me.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:54 @ The waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"

nkjv@Lamentations:3:55 @ I called on Your name, O LORD, From the lowest pit.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:56 @ You have heard my voice: "Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help."

nkjv@Lamentations:3:57 @ You drew near on the day I called on You, And said, "Do not fear!"

nkjv@Lamentations:3:58 @ O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul; You have redeemed my life.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:59 @ O LORD, You have seen how I am wronged; Judge my case.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:60 @ You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:61 @ You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me,

nkjv@Lamentations:3:62 @ The lips of my enemies And their whispering against me all the day.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:63 @ Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their taunting song.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:64 @ Repay them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.

nkjv@Lamentations:3:65 @ Give them a veiled heart; Your curse be upon them!

nkjv@Lamentations:3:66 @ In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD.

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