Lamentations:3

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* I am the [noble ] man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath . * He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness , and not in light . * Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day . * My flesh and my skin he has made old ; he has broken my bones . * He has built against me , and surrounded me with gall and travail . * He has made me to dwell in dark places , as those who have been long dead . * He has walled me about , that I can 't go forth ; he has made my chain heavy . * Yes , when I cry , and call for help , he shuts out my prayer . * He has walled up my ways with cut stone ; he has made my paths crooked . * He is to me as a bear lying in wait , as a lion in secret places . * He has turned aside my ways , and pulled me in pieces ; he has made me desolate . * He has bent his bow , and set me as a mark for the arrow . * He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins . * I have become a derision for my whole nation , and their song all the day . * He has filled me with bitterness , he has sated me with wormwood . * He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones ; he has covered me with ashes . * And you have removed my soul far off from peace ; I forgot prosperity . * And I said , My strength has perished , and my expectation from Yahweh . * Remember my affliction and my wandering , the wormwood and the gall . * My soul has them still in remembrance , and is bowed down inside me . * This I recall to my mind ; therefore I have hope . * [It is of ] Yahweh 's loving-kindnesses that we are not consumed , because his compassions do not fail . * They are new every morning ; great is your faithfulness . * Yahweh is my portion , says my soul ; therefore I will hope in him . * Yahweh is good to those who wait for him , to the soul who seeks him . * It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh . * It is good for a [noble ] man that he bear the yoke in his youth . * Let him sit alone and keep silent , because he has laid it on him . * Let him put his mouth in the dust , if perhaps there may be hope . * Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him ; let him be filled full with reproach . * For the Lord will not cast off forever . * For though he causes grief , yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses . * For he does not afflict willingly , nor grieve the sons of a man . * To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth , * To turn aside the right of a [noble ] man before the face of the Most High , * To subvert man in his cause , the Lord does not approve . * Who is he that says , and it comes to pass , when the Lord does not command it ? * Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good ? * Why does man complain , a living [noble ] man for the punishment of his sins ? * Let us search and try our ways , and turn again to Yahweh . * Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens . * We have transgressed and have rebelled ; you have not pardoned . * You have covered with anger and pursued us ; you have slain , you have not pitied . * You have covered yourself with a cloud , so that no prayer can pass through . * You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples . * All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us . * Fear and the pit have come upon us , devastation and destruction . * My eye runs down with streams of water , for the destruction of the daughter of my people . * My eye pours down , and does not cease , without any intermission , * Until Yahweh looks down , and beholds from heaven . * My eye affects my soul , because of all the daughters of my city . * They have chased me intensely like a bird , those who are my enemies without cause . * They have cut off my life in the dungeon , and have cast a stone on me . * Waters flowed over my head ; I said , I am cut off . * I called on your name , O Yahweh , out of the lowest dungeon . * You heard my voice ; don 't hide your ear at my breathing , at my cry . * You drew near in the day that I called on you ; you said , Don 't be afraid . * O Lord , you have pleaded the causes of my soul ; you have redeemed my life . * O Yahweh , you have seen my wrong ; judge my cause . * You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me . * You have heard their reproach , O Yahweh , and all their devices against me , * The lips of those who rose up against me , and their device against me all the day . * Look at their sitting down , and their rising up ; I am their song . * You will render to them a recompense , O Yahweh , according to the work of their hands . * You will give them hardness of heart , your curse to them . * You will pursue them in anger , and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh .

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