Lamentations:3

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* Aleph . I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation . * Aleph . He hath led me , and brought me into darkness , and not into light . * Aleph . Only against me he hath turned , and turned again his hand all the day . * Beth . My skin and my flesh he hath made old , he hath broken my bones . * Beth . He hath built round about me , and he hath compassed me with gall and labour . * Beth . He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever . * Ghimel . He hath built against me round about , that I may not get out : he hath made my fetters heavy . * Ghimel . Yea , and when I cry , and entreat , he hath shut out my prayer . * Ghimel . He hath shut up my ways with square stones , he hath turned my paths upside down . * Daleth . He is become to me as a bear lying in wait : as a lion in secret places . * Daleth . He hath turned aside my paths , and hath broken me in pieces , he hath made me desolate . * Daleth . He hath bent his bow , and set me as a mark for his arrows . * He . He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver . * He . I am made a derision to all my people , their song all the day long . * He . He hath filled me with bitterness , he hath inebriated me with wormwood . * Vau . And he hath broken my teeth one by one , he hath fed me with ashes . * Vau . And my soul is removed far off from peace , I have forgotten good things . * Vau . And I said : My end and my hope is perished from the Lord . * Zain . Remember my poverty , and transgression , the wormwood , and the gall . * Zain . I will be mindful and remember , and my soul shall languish within me . * Zain . These things I shall think over in my heart , therefore will I hope . * Heth . The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed : because his commiserations have not failed . * Heth . They are new every morning , great is thy faithfulness . * Heth . The Lord is my portion , said my soul : therefore will I wait for him . * Teth . The Lord is good to them that hope in him , to the soul that seeketh him . * Teth . It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God . * Teth . It is good for a man , when he hath borne the yoke from his youth . * Jod . He shall sit solitary , and hold his peace : because he hath taken it up upon himself . * Jod . He shall put his mouth in the dust , if so be there may be hope . * Jod . He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him , he shall be filled with reproaches . * Caph . For the Lord will not cast off for ever . * Caph . For if he hath cast off , he will also have mercy , according to the multitude of his mercies . * Caph . For he hath not willingly afflicted , nor cast off the children of men . * Lamed . To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land , * Lamed . To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High , * Lamed . To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment , the Lord hath not approved . * Mem . Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done , when the Lord commandeth it not ? * Mem . Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest ? * Mem . Why hath a living man murmured , man suffering for his sins ? * Nun . Let us search our ways , and seek , and return to the Lord . * Nun . Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens . * Nun . We have done wickedly , and provoked thee to wrath : therefore thou art inexorable . * Samech . Thou hast covered in thy wrath , and hast struck us : thou hast killed and hast not spared . * Samech . Thou hast set a cloud before thee , that our prayer may not pass through . * Samech . Thou hast made me as an outcast , and refuse in the midst of the people . * Phe . All our enemies have opened their mouths against us . * Phe . Prophecy is become to us a fear , and a snare , and destruction . * Phe . My eye hath run down with streams of water , for the destruction of the daughter of my people . * Ain . My eye is afflicted , and hath not been quiet , because there was no rest : * Ain . Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens . * Ain . My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city . * Sade . My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird , without cause . * Sade . My life is fallen into the pit , and they have laid a stone over me . * Sade . Waters have flowed over my head : I said : I am cut off . * Coph . I have called upon thy name , O Lord , from the lowest pit . * Coph . Thou hast heard my voice : turn not away thy ear from my sighs , and cries . * Coph . Thou drewest near in the day , when I called upon thee , thou saidst : Fear not . * Res . Thou hast judged , O Lord , the cause of my soul , thou the Redeemer of my life . * Res . Thou hast seen , O Lord , their iniquity against me : judge thou my judgment . * Res . Thou hast seen all their fury , and all their thoughts against me . * Sin . Thou hast heard their reproach , O Lord , all their imaginations against me . * Sin . The lips of them that rise up against me : and their devices against me all the day . * Sin . Behold their sitting down , and their rising up , I am their song . * Thau . Thou shalt render them a recompense , O Lord , according to the works of their hands . * Thau . Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart , thy labour . * Thau . Thou shalt persecute them in anger , and shalt destroy them from under the heavens , O Lord .

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