Lamentations:3

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* I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath . * He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light . * Surely against me He turneth His hand again and again all the day . * My flesh and my skin hath He worn out ; He hath broken my bones . * He hath builded against me , and compassed me with gall and travail . * He hath made me to dwell in dark places , as those that have been long dead . * He hath hedged me about , that I cannot go forth ; He hath made my chain heavy . * Yea , when I cry and call for help , He shutteth out my prayer . * He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone , He hath made my paths crooked . * He is unto me as a bear lying in wait , as a lion in secret places . * He hath turned aside my ways , and pulled me in pieces ; He hath made me desolate . * He hath bent His bow , and set me as a mark for the arrow . * He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins . * I am become a derision to all my people , and their song all the day . * He hath filled me with bitterness , He hath sated me with wormwood . * He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones , He hath made me to wallow in ashes . * And my soul is removed far off from peace , I forgot prosperity . * And I said : 'My strength is perished , and mine expectation from the LORD .' * Remember mine affliction and mine anguish , the wormwood and the gall . * My soul hath them still in remembrance , and is bowed down within me . * This I recall to my mind , therefore have I hope . * Surely the LORD 'S mercies are not consumed , surely His compassions fail not . * They are new every morning ; great is Thy faithfulness . * 'The LORD is my portion ', saith my soul ; 'Therefore will I hope in Him .' * The LORD is good unto them that wait for Him , to the soul that seeketh Him . * It is good that a man should quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD . * It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth . * Let him sit alone and keep silence , because He hath laid it upon him . * Let him put his mouth in the dust , if so be there may be hope . * Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him , let him be filled full with reproach . * For the Lord will not cast off for ever . * For though He cause grief , yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies . * For He doth not afflict willingly , nor grieve the children of men . * To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth , * To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High , * To subvert a man in his cause , the Lord approveth not . * Who is he that saith , and it cometh to pass , when the Lord commandeth it not ? * Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good ? * Wherefore doth a living man complain , a strong man because of his sins ? * Let us search and try our ways , and return to the LORD . * Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens . * We have transgressed and have rebelled ; Thou hast not pardoned . * Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us ; Thou hast slain unsparingly . * Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud , so that no prayer can pass through . * Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples . * All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us . * Terror and the pit are come upon us , desolation and destruction . * Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water , for the breach of the daughter of my people . * Mine eye is poured out , and ceaseth not , without any intermission , * Till the LORD look forth , and behold from heaven . * Mine eye affected my soul , because of all the daughters of my city . * They have chased me sore like a bird , that are mine enemies without cause . * They have cut off my life in the dungeon , and have cast stones upon me . * Waters flowed over my head ; I said : 'I am cut off .' * I called upon Thy name , O LORD , Out of the lowest dungeon . * Thou heardest my voice ; hide not Thine ear at my sighing , at my cry . * Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee ; Thou saidst : 'Fear not .' * O Lord , Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul ; Thou hast redeemed my life . * O LORD , Thou hast seen my wrong ; judge Thou my cause . * Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me . * Thou hast heard their taunt , O LORD , and all their devices against me ; * The lips of those that rose up against me , and their muttering against me all the day . * Behold Thou their sitting down , and their rising up ; I am their song . * Thou wilt render unto them a recompense , O LORD , according to the work of their hands . * Thou wilt give them hardness of heart , Thy curse unto them . * Thou wilt pursue them in anger , and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD .

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