book_id: LAM

book: Lamentations

reference: Lamentations 3:1

text: I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.


reference: Lamentations 3:2

text: He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.


reference: Lamentations 3:3

text: Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.


reference: Lamentations 3:4

text: My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.


reference: Lamentations 3:5

text: He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.


reference: Lamentations 3:6

text: He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.


reference: Lamentations 3:7

text: He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.


reference: Lamentations 3:8

text: Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.


reference: Lamentations 3:9

text: He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.


reference: Lamentations 3:10

text: He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.


reference: Lamentations 3:11

text: He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.


reference: Lamentations 3:12

text: He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.


reference: Lamentations 3:13

text: He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.


reference: Lamentations 3:14

text: I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.


reference: Lamentations 3:15

text: He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.


reference: Lamentations 3:16

text: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.


reference: Lamentations 3:17

text: And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.


reference: Lamentations 3:18

text: And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:


reference: Lamentations 3:19

text: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.


reference: Lamentations 3:20

text: My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.


reference: Lamentations 3:21

text: This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.


reference: Lamentations 3:22

text: ¶ It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.


reference: Lamentations 3:23

text: They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.


reference: Lamentations 3:24

text: The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.


reference: Lamentations 3:25

text: The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.


reference: Lamentations 3:26

text: It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.


reference: Lamentations 3:27

text: It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.


reference: Lamentations 3:28

text: He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.


reference: Lamentations 3:29

text: He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.


reference: Lamentations 3:30

text: He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.


reference: Lamentations 3:31

text: For the Lord will not cast off for ever:


reference: Lamentations 3:32

text: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.


reference: Lamentations 3:33

text: For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.


reference: Lamentations 3:34

text: To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,


reference: Lamentations 3:35

text: To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,


reference: Lamentations 3:36

text: To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.


reference: Lamentations 3:37

text: ¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?


reference: Lamentations 3:38

text: Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?


reference: Lamentations 3:39

text: Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?


reference: Lamentations 3:40

text: Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.


reference: Lamentations 3:41

text: Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.


reference: Lamentations 3:42

text: We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.


reference: Lamentations 3:43

text: Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.


reference: Lamentations 3:44

text: Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.


reference: Lamentations 3:45

text: Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.


reference: Lamentations 3:46

text: All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.


reference: Lamentations 3:47

text: Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.


reference: Lamentations 3:48

text: Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.


reference: Lamentations 3:49

text: Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,


reference: Lamentations 3:50

text: Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.


reference: Lamentations 3:51

text: Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.


reference: Lamentations 3:52

text: Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.


reference: Lamentations 3:53

text: They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.


reference: Lamentations 3:54

text: Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.


reference: Lamentations 3:55

text: ¶ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.


reference: Lamentations 3:56

text: Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.


reference: Lamentations 3:57

text: Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.


reference: Lamentations 3:58

text: O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.


reference: Lamentations 3:59

text: O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.


reference: Lamentations 3:60

text: Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.


reference: Lamentations 3:61

text: Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;


reference: Lamentations 3:62

text: The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.


reference: Lamentations 3:63

text: Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.


reference: Lamentations 3:64

text: ¶ Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.


reference: Lamentations 3:65

text: Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.


reference: Lamentations 3:66

text: Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.