Lamentations 3:1 ASV: 


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Lamentations 3:1: 
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Lamentations 3:2: 
He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Lamentations 3:3: 
Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

Lamentations 3:4: 
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 3:5: 
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

Lamentations 3:6: 
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Lamentations 3:7: 
He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

Lamentations 3:8: 
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

Lamentations 3:9: 
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 3:10: 
He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

Lamentations 3:11: 
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

Lamentations 3:12: 
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Lamentations 3:13: 
He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Lamentations 3:14: 
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

Lamentations 3:15: 
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:16: 
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

Lamentations 3:17: 
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

Lamentations 3:18: 
And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

Lamentations 3:19: 
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Lamentations 3:20: 
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

Lamentations 3:21: 
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

Lamentations 3:22: 
`It is of' Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Lamentations 3:23: 
They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:24: 
Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

Lamentations 3:25: 
Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Lamentations 3:26: 
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.

Lamentations 3:27: 
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Lamentations 3:28: 
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

Lamentations 3:29: 
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Lamentations 3:30: 
Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

Lamentations 3:31: 
For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

Lamentations 3:32: 
For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

Lamentations 3:33: 
For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

Lamentations 3:34: 
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

Lamentations 3:35: 
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

Lamentations 3:36: 
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

Lamentations 3:37: 
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Lamentations 3:38: 
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?

Lamentations 3:39: 
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Lamentations 3:40: 
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

Lamentations 3:41: 
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

Lamentations 3:42: 
We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

Lamentations 3:43: 
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Lamentations 3:44: 
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Lamentations 3:45: 
Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Lamentations 3:46: 
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Lamentations 3:47: 
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

Lamentations 3:48: 
Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 3:49: 
Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

Lamentations 3:50: 
Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.

Lamentations 3:51: 
Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 3:52: 
They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

Lamentations 3:53: 
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

Lamentations 3:54: 
Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

Lamentations 3:55: 
I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

Lamentations 3:56: 
Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Lamentations 3:57: 
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

Lamentations 3:58: 
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

Lamentations 3:59: 
O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

Lamentations 3:60: 
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

Lamentations 3:61: 
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,

Lamentations 3:62: 
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

Lamentations 3:63: 
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

Lamentations 3:64: 
Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

Lamentations 3:65: 
Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

Lamentations 3:66: 
Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.