lam 3:1

  I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

lam 3:2

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

lam 3:3

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

lam 3:4

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

lam 3:5

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

lam 3:6

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

lam 3:7

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

lam 3:8

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

lam 3:9

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

lam 3:10

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

lam 3:11

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

lam 3:12

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

lam 3:13

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

lam 3:14

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

lam 3:15

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

lam 3:16

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

lam 3:17

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

lam 3:18

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

lam 3:19

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

lam 3:20

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

lam 3:21

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

lam 3:22

  It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

lam 3:23

  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

lam 3:24

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

lam 3:25

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

lam 3:26

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

lam 3:27

  It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.

lam 3:28

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

lam 3:29

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

lam 3:30

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

lam 3:31

  For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

lam 3:32

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

lam 3:33

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

lam 3:34

  To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.

lam 3:35

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

lam 3:36

  To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.

lam 3:37

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

lam 3:38

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

lam 3:39

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

lam 3:40

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

lam 3:41

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

lam 3:42

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

lam 3:43

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

lam 3:44

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

lam 3:45

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

lam 3:46

  All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

lam 3:47

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

lam 3:48

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

lam 3:49

  Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.

lam 3:50

  Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

lam 3:51

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

lam 3:52

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

lam 3:53

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

lam 3:54

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

lam 3:55

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

lam 3:56

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

lam 3:57

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

lam 3:58

  O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

lam 3:59

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

lam 3:60

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

lam 3:61

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

lam 3:62

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

lam 3:63

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

lam 3:64

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

lam 3:65

  Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

lam 3:66

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