strkjv@Lamentations:3:1
@ I am the
man
that hath
seen
affliction
by the
rod
of his
wrath
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:2
@ He hath
led
me, and
brought
me into
darkness
, but not into
light
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:3
@ Surely against me is he
turned
; he
turneth
his
hand
against me all the
day
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:4
@ My
flesh
and my
skin
hath he made
old
; he hath
broken
my
bones
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:5
@ He hath builded
against
me, and
compassed
me with
gall
and
travail
t@.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:6
@ He hath
set
me in dark
places
, as they that be
dead
of
old
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:7
@ He hath
hedged
me about, that I cannot get
out
: he hath made my
chain
heavy
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:8
@ Also when I
cry
and
shout
, he shutteth
out
my
prayer
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:9
@ He hath
inclosed
my
ways
with hewn
stone
, he hath made my
paths
crooked
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:10
@ He was unto me as a
bear
lying in
wait
, and as a
lion
in secret
places
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:11
@ He hath turned
aside
my
ways
, and pulled me in
pieces
: he hath
made
me
desolate
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:12
@ He hath
bent
his
bow
, and
set
me as a
mark
for the
arrow
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:13
@ He hath caused the
arrows
of his
quiver
to
enter
into my
reins
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:14
@ I was a
derision
to all my
people
; and their
song
all the
day
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:15
@ He hath
filled
me with
bitterness
, he hath made me
drunken
with
wormwood
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:16
@ He hath also
broken
my
teeth
with gravel
stones
, he hath
covered
me with
ashes
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:17
@ And thou hast
removed
my
soul
far
off
from
peace
: I
forgat
prosperity
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:18
@ And I
said
, My
strength
and my
hope
is
perished
from the
LORD
:
strkjv@Lamentations:3:19
@
Remembering
mine
affliction
and my
misery
, the
wormwood
and the
gall
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:20
@ My
soul
hath them
still
in
remembrance
, and is
humbled
in me.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:21
@ This I
recall
to my
mind
, therefore have I
hope
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:22
@ It is of the
LORDS
mercies
that we are not
consumed
, because his
compassions
fail
not.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:23
@ They are
new
every
morning
:
great
is thy
faithfulness
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:24
@ The
LORD
is my
portion
,
saith
my
soul
; therefore will I
hope
in him.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:25
@ The
LORD
is
good
unto them that
wait
for him, to the
soul
that
seeketh
him.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:26
@ It is
good
that a man should both
hope
and quietly
wait
for the
salvation
of the
LORD
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:27
@ It is
good
for a
man
that he
bear
the
yoke
in his
youth
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:28
@ He
sitteth
alone
and keepeth
silence
, because he hath
borne
it upon him.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:29
@ He
putteth
his
mouth
in the
dust
; if so be there may
be
hope
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:30
@ He
giveth
8799) his
cheek
to him that
smiteth
him: he is filled
full
with
reproach
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:31
@ For the
Lord
will not cast
off
for
ever
:
strkjv@Lamentations:3:32
@ But though he cause
grief
, yet will he have
compassion
according to the
multitude
of his
mercies
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:33
@ For he doth not
afflict
willingly
nor
grieve
the
children
of
men
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:34
@ To
crush
under his
feet
all the
prisoners
of the
earth
,
strkjv@Lamentations:3:35
@ To turn
aside
the
right
of a
man
before the
face
of the most
High
,
strkjv@Lamentations:3:36
@ To
subvert
a
man
in his
cause
, the
Lord
approveth
not.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:37
@ Who is he that
saith
, and it cometh to pass, when the
Lord
commandeth
it not?
strkjv@Lamentations:3:38
@ Out of the
mouth
of the most
High
proceedeth
not
evil
and
good
?
strkjv@Lamentations:3:39
@ Wherefore doth a
living
man
complain
, a
man
for the punishment of his
sins
?
strkjv@Lamentations:3:40
@ Let us
search
and
try
our
ways
, and turn
again
to the
LORD
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:41
@ Let us lift
up
our
heart
with our
hands
unto
God
in the
heavens
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:42
@
We
have
transgressed
and have
rebelled
: thou hast not
pardoned
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:43
@ Thou hast
covered
with
anger
, and
persecuted
us: thou hast
slain
, thou hast not
pitied
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:44
@ Thou hast
covered
thyself with a
cloud
, that our
prayer
should not pass
through
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:45
@ Thou hast
made
us as the
offscouring
and
refuse
in the
midst
of the
people
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:46
@ All our
enemies
have
opened
their
mouths
against us.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:47
@
Fear
and a
snare
is come upon us,
desolation
and
destruction
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:48
@ Mine
eye
runneth
down
with
rivers
of
water
for the
destruction
of the
daughter
of my
people
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:49
@ Mine
eye
trickleth
down
, and
ceaseth
not, without any
intermission
,
strkjv@Lamentations:3:50
@ Till the
LORD
look
down
, and
behold
from
heaven
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:51
@ Mine
eye
affecteth
mine
heart
because of all the
daughters
of my
city
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:52
@ Mine
enemies
chased
me
sore
, like a
bird
, without
cause
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:53
@ They have cut
off
my
life
in the
dungeon
, and
cast
a
stone
upon me.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:54
@
Waters
flowed
over
mine
head
; then I
said
, I am cut
off
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:55
@ I
called
upon thy
name
, O
LORD
, out of the
low
dungeon
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:56
@ Thou hast
heard
my
voice
:
hide
not thine
ear
at my
breathing
, at my
cry
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:57
@ Thou drewest
near
in the
day
that I
called
upon thee: thou
saidst
,
Fear
not.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:58
@ O
Lord
, thou hast
pleaded
the
causes
of my
soul
; thou hast
redeemed
my
life
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:59
@ O
LORD
, thou hast
seen
my
wrong
:
judge
thou my
cause
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:60
@ Thou hast
seen
all their
vengeance
and all their
imaginations
against me.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:61
@ Thou hast
heard
their
reproach
, O
LORD
, and all their
imaginations
against me;
strkjv@Lamentations:3:62
@ The
lips
of those that rose
up
against me, and their
device
against me all the
day
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:63
@
Behold
their sitting
down
, and their rising
up
; I am their
musick
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:64
@
Render
unto them a
recompence
, O
LORD
, according to the
work
of their
hands
.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:65
@
Give
them
sorrow
of
heart
, thy
curse
unto them.
strkjv@Lamentations:3:66
@
Persecute
and
destroy
them in
anger
from under the
heavens
of the
LORD
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:1
@ How is the
gold
become
dim
! how is the
most
fine
gold
changed
! the
stones
of the
sanctuary
are poured
out
in the
top
of every
street
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:2
@ The
precious
sons
of
Zion
,
comparable
to fine
gold
, how are they
esteemed
as
earthen
pitchers
, the
work
of the
hands
of the
potter
!
strkjv@Lamentations:4:3
@ Even the sea
monsters
draw
out
the
breast
, they give
suck
to their young
ones
: the
daughter
of my
people
is become
cruel
, like the
ostriches
in the
wilderness
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:4
@ The
tongue
of the sucking
child
cleaveth
to the roof of his
mouth
for
thirst
: the young
children
ask
bread
, and no man
breaketh
it unto them.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:5
@ They that did
feed
delicately
are
desolate
in the
streets
: they that were brought
up
in
scarlet
embrace
dunghills
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:6
@ For the punishment of the
iniquity
of the
daughter
of my
people
is
greater
than the
punishment
of the sin of
Sodom
, that was
overthrown
as in a
moment
, and no
hands
stayed
on her.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:7
@ Her
Nazarites
were
purer
than
snow
, they were
whiter
than
milk
, they were more
ruddy
in
body
than
rubies
, their
polishing
was of
sapphire
:
strkjv@Lamentations:4:8
@ Their
visage
is
blacker
than a
coal
; they are not
known
in the
streets
: their
skin
cleaveth
to their
bones
; it is
withered
, it is become like a
stick
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:9
@ They that be
slain
with the
sword
are
better
than they that be
slain
with
hunger
: for
these
pine
away
,
stricken
through for want of the
fruits
of the
field
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:10
@ The
hands
of the
pitiful
women
have
sodden
their own
children
: they were their
meat
in the
destruction
of the
daughter
of my
people
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:11
@ The
LORD
hath
accomplished
his
fury
; he hath poured
out
his
fierce
anger
, and hath
kindled
a
fire
in
Zion
, and it hath
devoured
the
foundations
thereof.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:12
@ The
kings
of the
earth
, and all the
inhabitants
of the
world
, would not have
believed
that the
adversary
and the
enemy
should have
entered
into the
gates
of
Jerusalem
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:13
@ For the
sins
of her
prophets
, and the
iniquities
of her
priests
, that have
shed
the
blood
of the
just
in the
midst
of her,
strkjv@Lamentations:4:14
@ They have
wandered
as
blind
men in the
streets
, they have
polluted
themselves with
blood
, so that men
could
not
touch
their
garments
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:15
@ They
cried
unto them,
Depart
ye; it is
unclean
;
depart
,
depart
,
touch
not: when they fled
away
and
wandered
, they
said
among the
heathen
, They shall no
more
sojourn
there.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:16
@ The
anger
of the
LORD
hath
divided
them; he will no
more
regard
them: they
respected
not the
persons
of the
priests
, they
favoured
not the
elders
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:17
@ As for us, our
eyes
as yet
failed
for our
vain
help
: in our
watching
we have
watched
for a
nation
that could not
save
us.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:18
@ They
hunt
our
steps
, that we cannot
go
in our
streets
: our
end
is
near
, our
days
are
fulfilled
; for our
end
is
come
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:19
@ Our
persecutors
are
swifter
than the
eagles
of the
heaven
: they
pursued
us upon the
mountains
, they laid
wait
for us in the
wilderness
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:20
@ The
breath
of our
nostrils
, the
anointed
of the
LORD
, was
taken
in their
pits
, of whom we
said
, Under his
shadow
we shall
live
among the
heathen
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:21
@
Rejoice
and be
glad
, O
daughter
of
Edom
, that
dwellest
in the
land
of
Uz
; the
cup
also shall
pass
through unto thee: thou shalt be
drunken
, and shalt make thyself
naked
.
strkjv@Lamentations:4:22
@ The punishment of thine
iniquity
is
accomplished
, O
daughter
of
Zion
; he will no
more
carry thee away into
captivity
: he will
visit
thine
iniquity
, O
daughter
of
Edom
; he will
discover
thy
sins
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:1
@
Remember
, O
LORD
, what is come upon us:
consider
, and
behold
our
reproach
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:2
@ Our
inheritance
is
turned
to
strangers
, our
houses
to
aliens
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:3
@ We are
orphans
and
fatherless
H1, our
mothers
are as
widows
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:4
@ We have
drunken
our
water
for
money
; our
wood
is
sold
unto us.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:5
@ Our
necks
are under
persecution
: we
labour
, and have no
rest
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:6
@ We have
given
the
hand
to the
Egyptians
, and to the
Assyrians
, to be
satisfied
with
bread
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:7
@ Our
fathers
have
sinned
, and are
not
; and we have
borne
their
iniquities
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:8
@
Servants
have
ruled
over us: there is none that doth
deliver
us out of their
hand
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:9
@ We
gat
our
bread
with the peril of our
lives
because
of the
sword
of the
wilderness
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:10
@ Our
skin
was
black
like an
oven
because
of the
terrible
famine
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:11
@ They
ravished
the
women
in
Zion
, and the
maids
in the
cities
of
Judah
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:12
@
Princes
are hanged
up
by their
hand
: the
faces
of
elders
were not
honoured
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:13
@ They
took
the young
men
to
grind
, and the
children
fell
under the
wood
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:14
@ The
elders
have
ceased
from the
gate
, the young
men
from their
musick
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:15
@ The
joy
of our
heart
is
ceased
; our
dance
is
turned
into
mourning
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:16
@ The
crown
is
fallen
from our
head
:
woe
unto us, that we have
sinned
!
strkjv@Lamentations:5:17
@ For this our
heart
is
faint
; for these things our
eyes
are
dim
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:18
@ Because of the
mountain
of
Zion
, which is
desolate
, the
foxes
walk
upon it.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:19
@ Thou, O
LORD
,
remainest
for
ever
; thy
throne
from
generation
to
generation
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:20
@ Wherefore dost thou
forget
us for
ever
, and
forsake
us so
long
time
?
strkjv@Lamentations:5:21
@
Turn
thou us unto thee, O
LORD
, and we shall be
turned
;
renew
our
days
as of
old
.
strkjv@Lamentations:5:22
@ But thou hast
utterly
rejected
us; thou art
very
wroth
against us.
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