- I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
- Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
- Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.
- My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.
- He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
- He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.
- He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
- Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
- He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, 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; their song all the day.
- He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
- He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
- And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
- And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
- Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
- My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
- —This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.
- It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
- they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
- Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
- Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.
- It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.
- It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:
- He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;
- he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;
- he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.
- For the Lord will not cast off for ever;
- but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:
- for he doth not willingly afflict or 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 wrong a man in his cause,—will not the Lord see it?
- Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?
- Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
- Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
- Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
- 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 thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.
- Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.
- Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
- All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
- Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.
- Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
- Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
- till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.
- Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
- They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.
- They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me.
- Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
- I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.
- Thou hast heard 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.
- Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.
- Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
- Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.
- Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;
- the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day.
- Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.
- Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;
- give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;
- pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
Lamentations Chapters
Lamentations Chapter 3 (Darby Translation)
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