Lamentations:3-5

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ylt @Lamentations:3:1 @I [am ] the man [who ] hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath . ylt @Lamentations:3:2 @Me He hath led , and causeth to go [in ] darkness , and without light . ylt @Lamentations:3:3 @Surely against me He turneth back , He turneth His hand all the day . ylt @Lamentations:3:4 @He hath worn out my flesh and my skin . He hath broken my bones . ylt @Lamentations:3:5 @He hath built up against me , And setteth round poverty and weariness . ylt @Lamentations:3:6 @In dark places He hath caused me to dwell , As the dead of old . ylt @Lamentations:3:7 @He hath hedged me about , and I go not out , He hath made heavy my fetter . ylt @Lamentations:3:8 @Also when I call and cry out , He hath shut out my prayer . ylt @Lamentations:3:9 @He hath hedged my ways with hewn work , My paths He hath made crooked . ylt @Lamentations:3:10 @A bear lying in wait He [is ] to me , A lion in secret hiding-places . ylt @Lamentations:3:11 @My ways He is turning aside , and He pulleth me in pieces , He hath made me a desolation . ylt @Lamentations:3:12 @He hath trodden His bow , And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow . ylt @Lamentations:3:13 @He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver . ylt @Lamentations:3:14 @I have been a derision to all my people , Their song all the day . ylt @Lamentations:3:15 @He hath filled me with bitter things , He hath filled me [with ] wormwood . ylt @Lamentations:3:16 @And He breaketh with gravel my teeth , He hath covered me with ashes . ylt @Lamentations:3:17 @And Thou castest off from peace my soul , I have forgotten prosperity . ylt @Lamentations:3:18 @And I say , Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah . ylt @Lamentations:3:19 @Remember my affliction and my mourning , Wormwood and gall ! ylt @Lamentations:3:20 @Remember well , and bow down doth my soul in me . ylt @Lamentations:3:21 @This I turn to my heart -- therefore I hope . ylt @Lamentations:3:22 @The kindnesses of Jehovah ! For we have not been consumed , For not ended have His mercies . ylt @Lamentations:3:23 @New every morning , abundant [is ] thy faithfulness . ylt @Lamentations:3:24 @My portion [is ] Jehovah , hath my soul said , Therefore I hope for Him . ylt @Lamentations:3:25 @Good [is ] Jehovah to those waiting for Him , To the soul [that ] seeketh Him . ylt @Lamentations:3:26 @Good ! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah . ylt @Lamentations:3:27 @Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth . ylt @Lamentations:3:28 @He sitteth alone , and is silent , For He hath laid [it ] upon him . ylt @Lamentations:3:29 @He putteth in the dust his mouth , if so be there is hope . ylt @Lamentations:3:30 @He giveth to his smiter the cheek , He is filled with reproach . ylt @Lamentations:3:31 @For the Lord doth not cast off to the age . ylt @Lamentations:3:32 @For though He afflicted , yet He hath pitied , According to the abundance of His kindness . ylt @Lamentations:3:33 @For He hath not afflicted with His heart , Nor doth He grieve the sons of men . ylt @Lamentations:3:34 @To bruise under one 's feet any bound ones of earth , ylt @Lamentations:3:35 @To turn aside the judgment of a man , Over-against the face of the Most High , ylt @Lamentations:3:36 @To subvert a man in his cause , the Lord hath not approved . ylt @Lamentations:3:37 @Who [is ] this -- he hath said , and it is , [And ] the Lord hath not commanded [it ]? ylt @Lamentations:3:38 @From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good . ylt @Lamentations:3:39 @What -- sigh habitually doth a living man , A man for his sin ? ylt @Lamentations:3:40 @We search our ways , and investigate , And turn back unto Jehovah . ylt @Lamentations:3:41 @We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens . ylt @Lamentations:3:42 @We -- we have transgressed and rebelled , Thou -- Thou hast not forgiven . ylt @Lamentations:3:43 @Thou hast covered Thyself with anger , And dost pursue us ; Thou hast slain -- Thou hast not pitied . ylt @Lamentations:3:44 @Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud , So that prayer doth not pass through . ylt @Lamentations:3:45 @Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples . ylt @Lamentations:3:46 @Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies . ylt @Lamentations:3:47 @Fear and a snare hath been for us , Desolation and destruction . ylt @Lamentations:3:48 @Rivulets of water go down my eye , For the destruction of the daughter of my people . ylt @Lamentations:3:49 @Mine eye is poured out , And doth not cease without intermission , ylt @Lamentations:3:50 @Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens , ylt @Lamentations:3:51 @My eye affecteth my soul , Because of all the daughters of my city . ylt @Lamentations:3:52 @Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause . ylt @Lamentations:3:53 @They have cut off in a pit my life , And they cast a stone against me . ylt @Lamentations:3:54 @Flowed have waters over my head , I have said , I have been cut off . ylt @Lamentations:3:55 @I called Thy name , O Jehovah , from the lower pit . ylt @Lamentations:3:56 @My voice Thou hast heard , Hide not Thine ear at my breathing -- at my cry . ylt @Lamentations:3:57 @Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee , Thou hast said , Fear not . ylt @Lamentations:3:58 @Thou hast pleaded , O Lord , the pleadings of my soul , Thou hast redeemed my life . ylt @Lamentations:3:59 @Thou hast seen , O Jehovah , my overthrow , Judge Thou my cause . ylt @Lamentations:3:60 @Thou hast seen all their vengeance , All their thoughts of me . ylt @Lamentations:3:61 @Thou hast heard their reproach , O Jehovah , All their thoughts against me , ylt @Lamentations:3:62 @The lips of my withstanders , Even their meditation against me all the day . ylt @Lamentations:3:63 @Their sitting down , and their rising up , Behold attentively , I [am ] their song . ylt @Lamentations:3:64 @Thou returnest to them the deed , O Jehovah , According to the work of their hands . ylt @Lamentations:3:65 @Thou givest to them a covered heart , Thy curse to them . ylt @Lamentations:3:66 @Thou pursuest in anger , and destroyest them , From under the heavens of Jehovah ! ylt @Lamentations:4:1 @How is the gold become dim , Changed the best -- the pure gold ? Poured out are stones of the sanctuary At the head of all out-places . ylt @Lamentations:4:2 @The precious sons of Zion , Who are comparable with fine gold , How have they been reckoned earthen bottles , Work of the hands of a potter . ylt @Lamentations:4:3 @Even dragons have drawn out the breast , They have suckled their young ones , The daughter of my people is become cruel , Like the ostriches in a wilderness . ylt @Lamentations:4:4 @Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst , Infants asked bread , a dealer out they have none . ylt @Lamentations:4:5 @Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places , Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills . ylt @Lamentations:4:6 @And greater is the iniquity of the daughter of my people , Than the sin of Sodom , That was overturned as [in ] a moment , And no hands were stayed on her . ylt @Lamentations:4:7 @Purer were her Nazarites than snow , Whiter than milk , ruddier of body than rubies , Of sapphire their form . ylt @Lamentations:4:8 @Darker than blackness hath been their visage , They have not been known in out-places , Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone , It hath withered -- it hath been as wood . ylt @Lamentations:4:9 @Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine , For these flow away , pierced through , Without the increase of the field . ylt @Lamentations:4:10 @The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children , They have been for food to them , In the destruction of the daughter of my people . ylt @Lamentations:4:11 @Completed hath Jehovah His fury , He hath poured out the fierceness of His anger , And he kindleth a fire in Zion , And it devoureth her foundations . ylt @Lamentations:4:12 @Believe not did the kings of earth , And any of the inhabitants of the world , That come would an adversary and enemy Into the gates of Jerusalem . ylt @Lamentations:4:13 @Because of the sins of her prophets , The iniquities of her priests , Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous , ylt @Lamentations:4:14 @They have wandered naked in out-places , They have been polluted with blood , Without [any ] being able to touch their clothing , ylt @Lamentations:4:15 @'Turn aside -- unclean ,' they called to them , 'Turn aside , turn aside , touch not ,' For they fled -- yea , they have wandered , They have said among nations : 'They do not add to sojourn .' ylt @Lamentations:4:16 @The face of Jehovah hath divided them , He doth not add to behold them , The face of priests they have not lifted up , Elders they have not favoured . ylt @Lamentations:4:17 @While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help , In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation [that ] saveth not . ylt @Lamentations:4:18 @They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places , Near hath been our end , fulfilled our days , For come hath our end . ylt @Lamentations:4:19 @Swifter have been our pursuers , Than the eagles of the heavens , On the mountains they have burned [after ] us , In the wilderness they have laid wait for us . ylt @Lamentations:4:20 @The breath of our nostrils -- the anointed of Jehovah , Hath been captured in their pits , of whom we said : 'In his shadow we do live among nations .' ylt @Lamentations:4:21 @Joy and rejoice , O daughter of Edom , Dwelling in the land of Uz , Even unto thee pass over doth a cup , Thou art drunk , and makest thyself naked . ylt @Lamentations:4:22 @Completed [is ] thy iniquity , daughter of Zion , He doth not add to remove thee , He hath inspected thy iniquity , O daughter of Edom , He hath removed [thee ] because of thy sins ! ylt @Lamentations:5:1 @Remember , O Jehovah , what hath befallen us , Look attentively , and see our reproach . ylt @Lamentations:5:2 @Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers , Our houses to foreigners . ylt @Lamentations:5:3 @Orphans we have been -- without a father , our mothers [are ] as widows . ylt @Lamentations:5:4 @Our water for money we have drunk , Our wood for a price doth come . ylt @Lamentations:5:5 @For our neck we have been pursued , We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us . ylt @Lamentations:5:6 @[To ] Egypt we have given a hand , [To ] Asshur , to be satisfied with bread . ylt @Lamentations:5:7 @Our fathers have sinned -- they are not , We their iniquities have borne . ylt @Lamentations:5:8 @Servants have ruled over us , A deliverer there is none from their hand . ylt @Lamentations:5:9 @With our lives we bring in our bread , Because of the sword of the wilderness . ylt @Lamentations:5:10 @Our skin as an oven hath been burning , Because of the raging of the famine . ylt @Lamentations:5:11 @Wives in Zion they have humbled , Virgins -- in cities of Judah . ylt @Lamentations:5:12 @Princes by their hand have been hanged , The faces of elders have not been honoured . ylt @Lamentations:5:13 @Young men to grind they have taken , And youths with wood have stumbled . ylt @Lamentations:5:14 @The aged from the gate have ceased , Young men from their song . ylt @Lamentations:5:15 @Ceased hath the joy of our heart , Turned to mourning hath been our dancing . ylt @Lamentations:5:16 @Fallen hath the crown [from ] our head , Wo [is ] now to us , for we have sinned . ylt @Lamentations:5:17 @For this hath our heart been sick , For these have our eyes been dim . ylt @Lamentations:5:18 @For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate , Foxes have gone up on it . ylt @Lamentations:5:19 @Thou , O Jehovah , to the age remainest , Thy throne to generation and generation . ylt @Lamentations:5:20 @Why for ever dost Thou forget us ? Thou forsakest us for length of days ! ylt @Lamentations:5:21 @Turn us back , O Jehovah , unto Thee , And we turn back , renew our days as of old . ylt @Lamentations:5:22 @For hast Thou utterly rejected us ? Thou hast been wroth against us -- exceedingly ?

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