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Lamentations 3
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- The Sorrows of Zion 1:1–22
- God’s Anger over Jerusalem 2:1–22
- The Suffering Servant 3:1–66
- The Prophet’s Affliction 3:1–18
- The Prophet’s Hope 3:19–36
- God’s Justice 3:37–66
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I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
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He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
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3
Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
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He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
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He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
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He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
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Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
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He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
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He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
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11
He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
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12
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
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13
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
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I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
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He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
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He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
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My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
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So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
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Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
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Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
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Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
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Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
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They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
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24
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
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25
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
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26
It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
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27
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
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28
Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.
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29
Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.
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30
Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
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31
For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
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32
Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
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33
For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
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To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
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to deny a man justice before the Most High,
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to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
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37
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
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38
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
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39
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
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40
Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
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41
Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
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42
“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
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43
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
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44
You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
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45
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
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46
All our enemies open their mouths against us.
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47
Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
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48
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
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until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
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51
My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
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52
Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
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53
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
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54
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
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55
I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
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56
You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
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57
You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”
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58
You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
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59
You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
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You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
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61
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
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the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
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63
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
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You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
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Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!
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66
You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
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