Lamentations Chapter 3 / ASV

American Standard Version
Lamentations, Chapter 3

   1: I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
   2: He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
   3: Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again 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 made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
   7: He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
   8: Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
   9: He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
   10: He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, 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 shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
   14: I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
   15: He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me 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 is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
   19: Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
   20: My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
   21: This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
   22: [It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
   23: They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
   24: Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
   25: Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
   26: It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
   27: It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
   28: Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.
   29: Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
   30: Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.
   31: For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
   32: For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
   33: For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
   34: To crush under foot 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 cometh there 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 Jehovah.
   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 pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
   44: Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
   45: Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
   46: All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
   47: Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
   48: Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
   49: Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
   50: Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
   51: Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
   52: They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
   53: They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
   54: Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
   55: I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
   56: Thou heardest 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 Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.
   60: Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
   61: Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
   62: The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
   63: Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
   64: Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
   65: Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.
   66: Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

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