nsb@Lamentations:3:1 @ I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his fury.

nsb@Lamentations:3:2 @ By him I have been made to go in the dark and not in the light.

nsb@Lamentations:3:3 @ Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all day long.

nsb@Lamentations:3:4 @ My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

nsb@Lamentations:3:5 @ He built a wall against me, shutting me in with hardship and bitter sorrow.

nsb@Lamentations:3:6 @ He kept me in dark places, like those who have been dead a long time.

nsb@Lamentations:3:7 @ He built a wall around me so that I am unable to go out. He made a heavy chain for me.

nsb@Lamentations:3:8 @ Even when I send up a cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.

nsb@Lamentations:3:9 @ He blocked my way with cut stones. He twisted my roadways.

nsb@Lamentations:3:10 @ He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

nsb@Lamentations:3:11 @ He has turned me on one side. I have been pulled to bits and lay desolate.

nsb@Lamentations:3:12 @ With his bow bent, he made me the target for his arrows.

nsb@Lamentations:3:13 @ He has let fly his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

nsb@Lamentations:3:14 @ I have become the laughingstock of all the peoples. I am their mocking song all the day.

nsb@Lamentations:3:15 @ He has made my life nothing but pain. He gives me bitterness in full measure.

nsb@Lamentations:3:16 @ He broke my teeth with crushed stones. I am bent low in the dust.

nsb@Lamentations:3:17 @ Peace has been removed far away from me. I do not remember what good is.

nsb@Lamentations:3:18 @ I said: »My strength is cut off, and my hope from Jehovah.«

nsb@Lamentations:3:19 @ Remember my trouble and my wandering, the bitterroot and the poison.

nsb@Lamentations:3:20 @ Remember and bow down deep within me.

nsb@Lamentations:3:21 @ I remember this and I have hope.

nsb@Lamentations:3:22 @ We have not come to destruction because of Jehovah’s loving kindness. His mercies are without end.

nsb@Lamentations:3:23 @ They are new every morning. Your faithfulness is abundant.

nsb@Lamentations:3:24 @ I said to myself, »Jehovah is my heritage. For this reason I will hope in him.«

nsb@Lamentations:3:25 @ Jehovah is good to those who are waiting for him, to the person seeking him.

nsb@Lamentations:3:26 @ It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of Jehovah.

nsb@Lamentations:3:27 @ It is good for a man to carry the yoke when he is young.

nsb@Lamentations:3:28 @ Let him sit by himself and keep silent because he has laid it on him.

nsb@Lamentations:3:29 @ Let him put his mouth in the dust for perhaps there exists hope.

nsb@Lamentations:3:30 @ Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.

nsb@Lamentations:3:31 @ Jehovah does not give a man up for a very long time.

nsb@Lamentations:3:32 @ For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.

nsb@Lamentations:3:33 @ He takes no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men, it is not within his heart.

nsb@Lamentations:3:34 @ A man crushes under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.

nsb@Lamentations:3:35 @ He turns away the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High.

nsb@Lamentations:3:36 @ Jehovah would not seek to deprive a man of justice.

nsb@Lamentations:3:37 @ Who is able to say something should occur if Jehovah has not ordered it.

nsb@Lamentations:3:38 @ Do not calamities and good things come from the mouth of the Most High?

nsb@Lamentations:3:39 @ What protest may a living man make? Can a man protest about the punishment for his sin?

nsb@Lamentations:3:40 @ Let us search and put our ways to the test. Let us turn again to Jehovah.

nsb@Lamentations:3:41 @ Let us lift up our hearts along with our hands to God in heaven.

nsb@Lamentations:3:42 @ For we have done wrong. We have rebelled against your law. We have not received your forgiveness.

nsb@Lamentations:3:43 @ You blocked our approach to you with anger. You have slain us without compassion.

nsb@Lamentations:3:44 @ You covered yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not pass through.

nsb@Lamentations:3:45 @ You made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

nsb@Lamentations:3:46 @ The mouths of all our enemies are open wide against us.

nsb@Lamentations:3:47 @ Fear and deep waters have come on us with devastation and destruction.

nsb@Lamentations:3:48 @ Rivers of water run down from my eyes because pf the destruction of the daughter of my people.

nsb@Lamentations:3:49 @ My eyes stream without stopping. They have no rest.

nsb@Lamentations:3:50 @ Jehovah looks down and sees from heaven.

nsb@Lamentations:3:51 @ My eyes bring me pain because of all the daughters of my town.

nsb@Lamentations:3:52 @ My enemies hunt for me just as if I was a bird.

nsb@Lamentations:3:53 @ They sentence my life to prison and keep hurling stones at me.

nsb@Lamentations:3:54 @ Waters were flowing over my head; I said: »I am cut off.«

nsb@Lamentations:3:55 @ I called out your name in prayer, O Jehovah, out of the lowest prison.

nsb@Lamentations:3:56 @ My voice came to you, »Do not shut your ear to my relief, to my cry!«

nsb@Lamentations:3:57 @ You came near in the day when I offered my prayer to you. You said: »Have no fear.«

nsb@Lamentations:3:58 @ O Jehovah, you have taken up my cause. You made my life safe.

nsb@Lamentations:3:59 @ O Jehovah, you saw the wrong done to me. Do conduct the judgment for me!

nsb@Lamentations:3:60 @ You saw all the evil they did to me and all their designs against me.

nsb@Lamentations:3:61 @ Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Jehovah, and all their designs against me.

nsb@Lamentations:3:62 @ You saw the lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.

nsb@Lamentations:3:63 @ Take note of them when they are seated and when they get up. I am their mockery of song.

nsb@Lamentations:3:64 @ You will give them their reward, O Jehovah. Answer the work of their hands.

nsb@Lamentations:3:65 @ You will cover their hearts with your curse on them.

nsb@Lamentations:3:66 @ You will go after them in anger and annihilate them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

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