Lamentations-3

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  • 1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;
  • 2 he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
  • 3 surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.
  • 4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;
  • 5 he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
  • 6 he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
  • 7 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;
  • 8 though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
  • 9 he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
  • 10 He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding;
  • 11 he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;
  • 12 he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
  • 13 He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;
  • 14 I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.
  • 15 He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.
  • 16 He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
  • 17 my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is;
  • 18 so I say, "My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord."
  • 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
  • 20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.
  • 21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
  • 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;
  • 23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
  • 24 "The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him."
  • 25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
  • 26 It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
  • 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
  • 28 Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him;
  • 29 let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;
  • 30 let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults.
  • 31 For the Lord will not cast off forever,
  • 32 but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
  • 33 for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men.
  • 34 To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,
  • 35 to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High,
  • 36 to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.
  • 37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
  • 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
  • 39 Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
  • 40 Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
  • 41 Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
  • 42 "We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.
  • 43 "You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;
  • 44 you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
  • 45 You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.
  • 46 "All our enemies open their mouths against us;
  • 47 panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;
  • 48 my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • 49 "My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,
  • 50 until the Lord from heaven looks down and sees;
  • 51 my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.
  • 52 "I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;
  • 53 they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;
  • 54 water closed over my head; I said, 'I am lost.'
  • 55 "I called on your name, O Lord , from the depths of the pit;
  • 56 you heard my plea, 'Do not close your ear to my cry for help!'
  • 57 You came near when I called on you; you said, 'Do not fear!'
  • 58 "You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life.
  • 59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord ; judge my cause.
  • 60 You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.
  • 61 "You have heard their taunts, O Lord , all their plots against me.
  • 62 The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.
  • 63 Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.
  • 64 "You will repay them, O Lord , according to the work of their hands.
  • 65 You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them.
  • 66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O Lord."
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