Book of Lamentations, Chapter 3

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Lamentations 3 KJV - King James Version

Chapter 3 of Lamentations—King James Version (KJV)

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

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