Lamentations 3
aligned by seat — same row, same verse, whatever each bible numbers it
| v | JPS1917 |
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| 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 worn out; 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 hedged 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 enclosed 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 arrows 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 made me to wallow in ashes. |
| 17 | And my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity. |
| 18 | And I said: ‘My strength is perished, And mine expectation from the LORD.’ |
| 19 | Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, 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 | Surely the LORD’S mercies are not consumed, Surely His compassions fail not. |
| 23 | They are new every morning; Great is Thy faithfulness. |
| 24 | ’The LORD is my portion’, saith my soul; ‘Therefore will I hope in Him.’ |
| 25 | The LORD is good unto them that wait for Him, To the soul that seeketh Him. |
| 26 | It is good that a man should quietly wait 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 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 mercies. |
| 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 proceedeth not Evil and good? |
| 39 | Wherefore doth a living man complain, A strong man because of his sins? |
| 40 | Let us search and try our ways, And return to the LORD. |
| 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 unsparingly. |
| 44 | Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that no prayer can pass through. |
| 45 | Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples. |
| 46 | All our enemies have opened their mouth Wide against us. |
| 47 | Terror and the pit are come upon us, Desolation and destruction. |
| 48 | Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, For the breach of the daughter of my people. |
| 49 | Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, Without any intermission, |
| 50 | Till the LORD look forth, And behold from heaven. |
| 51 | Mine eye affected my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city. |
| 52 | They have chased me sore like a bird, That are mine enemies without cause. |
| 53 | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, And have cast stones upon me. |
| 54 | Waters flowed over my head; I said: ‘I am cut off.’ |
| 55 | I called upon Thy name, O LORD, Out of the lowest dungeon. |
| 56 | Thou heardest my voice; hide not Thine ear at my sighing, 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 LORD, 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 taunt, O LORD, And all their devices against me; |
| 62 | The lips of those that rose up against me, And their muttering 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 LORD, 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 the LORD. |