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Lam.|3:1|-||1|I am the man who has seen afflictionBy the rod of His wrath.
Lam.|3:2|-|He has driven me and brought meInto darkness and not light.
Lam.|3:3|-|Surely against me He has turned His handAgain and again all the day.
Lam.|3:4|-|He has wasted my flesh and my skin;He has broken my bones.
Lam.|3:5|-|He has built up a siege against meAnd encircled me with gall and travail.
Lam.|3:6|-|He has made me dwell in dark places,Like those who have long been dead.
Lam.|3:7|-|He has walled me about so that I cannot go forth;He has made my bronze chain heavy.
Lam.|3:8|-|Indeed, when I cry out and call for help,He shuts out my prayer.
Lam.|3:9|-|He has walled in my ways with hewn stone;He has made my paths crooked.
Lam.|3:10|-|He is to me like a bear lying in wait,Like a lion in hidden places.
Lam.|3:11|-|He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces;He has made me desolate.
Lam.|3:12|-|He bent His bowAnd set me as a target for the arrow.
Lam.|3:13|-|He has caused the arrows of His quiverTo enter my inward parts.
Lam.|3:14|-|I have become a |a|derision to all my people,Their mocking song all the day.
Lam.|3:15|-|He has filled me with bitterness;He has made me drunk with wormwood.
Lam.|3:16|-|He has also crushed my teeth with gravel;He has covered me with ashes.
Lam.|3:17|-|And You have removed my soul far from peace;I have forgotten prosperity.
Lam.|3:18|-|And I said, My strength has perishedAs well as my hope in Jehovah.
Lam.|3:19|-|Remember my affliction and my |1|wandering,The wormwood and the gall.
Lam.|3:20|-|My soul remembers them wellAnd is bowed down within me.
Lam.|3:21|-|This I recall to my heart;Therefore I have hope.
Lam.|3:22|-|It is Jehovah’s |a|lovingkindness that we are not |1|consumed,For His |b|compassions do not fail;
Lam.|3:23|-|They are new |1|every |a|morning;Great is Your |2b|faithfulness.
Lam.|3:24|-|Jehovah is my |1a|portion, says my soul;Therefore I hope in Him.
Lam.|3:25|-|Jehovah is good to those who |1a|wait on Him,To the soul that seeks Him.
Lam.|3:26|-|It is good for one to hope, and to do so in silence,For the salvation of Jehovah.
Lam.|3:27|-|It is good for a man to bearThe yoke in his youth.
Lam.|3:28|-|Let him sit alone and be silent,Because He has laid it upon him.
Lam.|3:29|-|Let him put his mouth in the dust—Perhaps there is hope.
Lam.|3:30|-|Let him give his |a|cheek to him who strikes him;Let him be filled with reproach.
Lam.|3:31|-|For the Lord will not|a|Cast off forever.
Lam.|3:32|-|But even if He causes grief, He will have compassionAccording to the multitude of His lovingkindness;
Lam.|3:33|-|For He does not afflict willinglyOr grieve the children of men.
Lam.|3:34|-|The crushing under his footOf all the prisoners of the earth,
Lam.|3:35|-|The turning aside of the justice due a manBefore the face of the Most High,
Lam.|3:36|-|The wronging of a man in his cause—Will not the Lord see all these?
Lam.|3:37|-|Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,What the Lord has not commanded?
Lam.|3:38|-|Out of the |a|mouth of the Most HighDo there not proceed |b|evil things and something good?
Lam.|3:39|-|Why does a living man complain,A man for the punishment of his sins?
Lam.|3:40|-|Let us examine our ways and try them,And let us |a|turn again to Jehovah.
Lam.|3:41|-|Let us lift up our heart with our handsUnto God in the heavens.
Lam.|3:42|-|We have transgressed and rebelled;You have not pardoned.
Lam.|3:43|-|You have covered Yourself with anger and have pursued us;You have slain; You have not spared.
Lam.|3:44|-|You have covered Yourself with a cloudThat prayer might not pass through.
Lam.|3:45|-|You have made us |a|offscouring and refuseIn the midst of the peoples.
Lam.|3:46|-|All our enemies have openedTheir mouths against us.
Lam.|3:47|-||a|Fear and the pit are upon us,Devastation and destruction.
Lam.|3:48|-|My eye |a|runs down with streams of waterFor the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lam.|3:49|-|My eye pours forth and does not stop;There is no cessation,
Lam.|3:50|-|Until Jehovah looks downAnd sees from the heavens.
Lam.|3:51|-|My eye pains my soulBecause of all the daughters of my city.
Lam.|3:52|-|They have hunted me down like a bird,They who are my enemies without cause.
Lam.|3:53|-|They have brought my life to its end in the pitAnd have thrown a stone upon me.
Lam.|3:54|-|Water streamed over my head;I said, I have been cut off.
Lam.|3:55|-|I |1a|called upon Your name, O Jehovah,From the lowest pit.
Lam.|3:56|-|You have heard my voice; do not hideYour ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lam.|3:57|-|You drew |a|near in the day that I called upon You;You said, Do not fear.
Lam.|3:58|-|Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s case;You have redeemed my life.
Lam.|3:59|-|You have seen, O Jehovah, my oppression;Judge my cause.
Lam.|3:60|-|You have seen all their vengeance,All their plans, against me.
Lam.|3:61|-|You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah,All their plans against me,
Lam.|3:62|-|The lips of those who rise up against meAnd their meditation against me all the day.
Lam.|3:63|-|Look upon their sitting down and their rising up;I am their mocking song.
Lam.|3:64|-||a|You will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah,According to the work of their hands.
Lam.|3:65|-|You will give them hardness of heart;Your curse be upon them.
Lam.|3:66|-|You will pursue them in anger and will destroy themFrom |a|under the heavens of Jehovah.
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