Lamentations:3:2-66
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He hath led me ,
and brought me into darkness ,
but not into light .
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Surely against me is he turned ;
he turneth his hand against me all the day .
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My flesh and my skin hath he made old ;
he hath broken my bones .
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He hath builded against me ,
and compassed me with gall and travail t @
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He hath set me in dark places ,
as they that be dead of old .
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He hath hedged me about ,
that I cannot get out :
he hath made my chain heavy .
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Also when I cry and shout ,
he shutteth out my prayer .
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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone ,
he hath made my paths crooked .
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He was unto me as a bear lying in wait ,
and as a lion in secret places .
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He hath turned aside my ways ,
and pulled me in pieces :
he hath made me desolate .
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He hath bent his bow ,
and set me as a mark for the arrow .
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He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins .
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I was a derision to all my people ;
and their song all the day .
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He hath filled me with bitterness ,
he hath made me drunken with wormwood la #
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He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones ,
he hath covered me with ashes .
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And thou hast removed #
my soul far off from peace :
I forgat prosperity .
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And I said ,
My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD :
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Remembering mine affliction and my misery ,
the wormwood and the gall ro #
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My soul hath them still in remembrance ,
and is humbled in me .
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This I recall to my mind ,
therefore have I hope .
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It is of the LORDS mercies that we are not consumed ,
because his compassions fail not .
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They are new every morning :
great is thy faithfulness .
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The LORD is my portion ,
saith my soul ;
therefore will I hope in him .
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The LORD is good unto them that wait for him ,
to the soul that seeketh him .
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It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD .
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth na #
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He sitteth alone and keepeth silence ,
because he hath borne it upon him .
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He putteth his mouth in the dust ;
if so be there may be hope .
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his cheek to him that smiteth him :
he is filled full with reproach .
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For the Lord will not cast off for ever :
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But though he cause grief ,
yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies .
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For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men .
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To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth ,
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To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High ,
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To subvert a man in his cause ,
the Lord approveth not .
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Who is he that saith ,
and it cometh to pass ,
when the Lord commandeth it not ?
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Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good ?
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Wherefore doth a living man complain ,
a man for the punishment of his sins ?
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Let us search and try our ways ,
and turn again to the LORD .
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Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens .
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We have transgressed and have rebelled :
thou hast not pardoned .
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Thou hast covered with anger ,
and persecuted us :
thou hast slain ,
thou hast not pitied .
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Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud ,
that our prayer should not pass through .
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Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people .
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All our enemies have opened their mouths against us .
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Fear and a snare is come upon us ,
desolation and destruction .
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Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people .
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Mine eye trickleth down ,
and ceaseth not ,
without any intermission ,
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Till the LORD look down ,
and behold from heaven .
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Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city .
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Mine enemies chased me sore ,
like a bird ,
without cause .
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon ,
and cast a stone upon me .
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Waters flowed over mine head ro #
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then I said ,
I am cut off .
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I called upon thy name ,
O LORD ,
out of the low dungeon .
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Thou hast heard my voice :
hide not thine ear at my breathing ,
at my cry shav #
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Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee :
thou saidst ,
Fear not .
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O Lord ,
thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul ;
thou hast redeemed my life .
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O LORD ,
thou hast seen my wrong :
judge thou my cause .
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Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me .
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Thou hast heard their reproach ,
O LORD ,
and all their imaginations against me ;
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The lips of those that rose up against me ,
and their device against me all the day .
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Behold their sitting down ,
and their rising up ;
I am their musick .
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Render unto them a recompence ,
O LORD ,
according to the work of their hands .
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Give them sorrow of heart ,
thy curse unto them .
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Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD .