Lamentations:3

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* I the man have seen affliction by the rod of His wrath . * He has led me and made [me ] go in darkness and not into light . * Surely He turned [against me ]; He turns His hand all the day . * He has wasted my flesh and my skin ; He has broken my bones . * He built against me and has circled [me ] with bitterness and hardship . * He has made me live in dark places , like the dead of old . * He has set a fence around me and I cannot go out ; He has made my bronze [chain ] heavy . * Also when I cry and shout , He shuts out my prayer . * He walled up my ways with cut stone ; my paths are crooked . * He [was ] a bear lying in wait for me , a lion in secret places . * He has turned my ways aside and torn me in pieces . He made me desolate . * He has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow . * He has caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my inward parts . * I was a mockery to all my people , their song all the day . * He has filled me with bitterness [and ] made me drunk [with ] wormwood . * He also broke my teeth with gravel ; He has covered me in the ashes . * And You cast off my soul from peace ; I have forgotten blessedness . * And I said , My strength and my hope from the LORD [are ] gone . * Remember my affliction and my wandering , [as ] wormwood and bitterness . * My soul vividly remembers and bows down on me . * I recall this to my mind ; therefore I hope . * [It is ] by the LORD 's kindnesses that we are not destroyed , because His mercies never fail . * [They are ] new every morning ; great [is ] Your faithfulness . * The LORD [is ] my portion , says my soul ; therefore I will hope in Him . * The LORD [is ] good to those who wait for Him , to the soul who seeks Him . * [It is ] good that one should hope for the salvation of the LORD , even in silence . * [It is ] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth . * He sits alone and keeps silence because He laid [it ] on him . * He puts his mouth in the dust , if perhaps there may be hope . * He gives [his ] cheek to Him who strikes him ; he is filled with reproach . * For the Lord will not cast off forever ; * for though He causes grief , yet He will have pity according to the multitude of His kindnesses . * For He does not afflict from His heart , nor does He grieve the sons of men ; * to crush all the prisoners of the earth under his feet ; * to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High ; * to pervert a man in his cause -- [this ] the LORD does not see . * Who [is ] this [who ] speaks , and it occurs , [when ] the Lord does not command it ? * From the mouth of the Most High does not go out the evil and the good . * What ? Should mankind complain , a living man , because of his sins ? * Let us search and try our ways , and turn again to the LORD . * Let us lift up our heart [and ] hands to God in Heaven . * We have sinned and have rebelled ; You have not forgiven . * You have wrapped Yourself with anger and pursued us ; You have slain ; You have not pitied . * You have wrapped Yourself with a cloud from [any ] prayer passing through . * You have made us [as ] the sweepings and garbage in the midst of the peoples . * All our enemies have opened their mouths against us . * Fear and a pit have come to us , shame and ruin . * Streams of water run down my eye for the ruin of the daughter of my people . * My eye flows out and does not cease , from there being no intermission , * until the LORD shall look down and behold from Heaven . * My eye pains my soul because of all the daughters of my city . * My haters have hunted me , like a bird , without cause . * They have cut off my life in the pit , and cast a stone at me . * Waters flowed over my head ; [then ] I said , I am cut off . * I called on Your name , O LORD , out of the lowest pit . * You have heard my voice ; do not hide Your ear at my relief , at my cry for help . * You drew near in the day [that ] I called on You ; You said , Fear not . * O Lord , You strove for the causes of my soul ; You redeemed my life . * O Jehovah , You have seen my wrong ; judge my cause . * You have seen all their vengeance , all their plots against me . * You have heard their reproach , O LORD , all their plots against me ; * the lips of those who rose up against me , and their scheming against me all the day . * Behold their sitting down and their rising up ; I [am ] their song . * You will return to them a recompense , O LORD , according to the work of their hands . * You will give them dullness of heart , Your curse on them . * Pursue and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD .

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