Lamentations 3
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| 1 | I Am the man that hath seene affliction by the rod of his wrath. |
| 2 | He hath led me and brought mee into darkenesse, but not into light. |
| 3 | Surely against me is he turned, he turneth his hand against me all the day. |
| 4 | My flesh and my skinne hath he made old, he hath broken my bones. |
| 5 | He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and trauel. |
| 6 | He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead of old. |
| 7 | He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: hee hath made my chaine heauie. |
| 8 | Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. |
| 9 | Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked. |
| 10 | He was vnto me as a Beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places. |
| 11 | Hee hath turned aside my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: hee hath made me desolate. |
| 12 | He hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow. |
| 13 | Hee hath caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines. |
| 14 | I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. |
| 15 | Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood. |
| 16 | He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes. |
| 17 | And thou hast remoued my soule farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie. |
| 18 | And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: |
| 19 | Remembring mine affliction and my miserie, the wormewood & the gall. |
| 20 | My soule hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. |
| 21 | This I recall to my mind, therefore haue I hope. |
| 22 | It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not. |
| 23 | They are newe euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse. |
| 24 | The Lord is my portion, sayth my soule, therefore will I hope in him. |
| 25 | The Lord is good vnto them that waite for him, to the soule that seeketh him. |
| 26 | It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the saluation of the Lord. |
| 27 | It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth. |
| 28 | Hee sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because hee hath borne it vpon him. |
| 29 | He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. |
| 30 | Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him, hee is filled full with reproch. |
| 31 | For the Lord will not cast off for euer. |
| 32 | But though hee cause griefe, yet will hee haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. |
| 33 | For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieue the children of men. |
| 34 | To crush vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth, |
| 35 | To turne aside the right of a man before the face of the most high, |
| 36 | To subuert a man in his cause, the Lord approoueth not. |
| 37 | Who is hee that sayth, and it commeth to passe, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
| 38 | Out of the mouth of the most hie proceedeth not euill and good? |
| 39 | Wherefore doeth a liuing man complaine, a man for the punishment of his sinnes? |
| 40 | Let vs search and try our waies, and turne againe to the Lord. |
| 41 | Let vs lift vp our heart with our hands vnto God in the heauens. |
| 42 | We haue transgressed, and haue rebelled, thou hast not pardoned. |
| 43 | Thou hast couered with anger, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine, thou hast not pitied. |
| 44 | Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloud, that our prayer should not passe through. |
| 45 | Thou hast made vs as the offscouring and refuse in the middest of the people. |
| 46 | All our enemies haue opened their mouthes against vs. |
| 47 | Feare and a snare is come vpon vs, desolation and destruction. |
| 48 | Mine eye runneth downe with riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 49 | Mine eye trickleth downe and ceaseth not, without any intermission: |
| 50 | Till the Lord looke downe, and behold from heauen. |
| 51 | Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city. |
| 52 | Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird, without cause. |
| 53 | They haue cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me. |
| 54 | Waters flowed ouer mine head, then I sayd, I am cut off. |
| 55 | I called vpon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. |
| 56 | Thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine eare at my breathing, at my crie. |
| 57 | Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saidst, Feare not. |
| 58 | O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soule, thou hast redeemed my life. |
| 59 | O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause. |
| 60 | Thou hast seene all their vengeance; and all their imaginations against me. |
| 61 | Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me: |
| 62 | The lippes of those that rose vp against me, and their deuice against me all the day. |
| 63 | Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, I am their musicke. |
| 64 | Render vnto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the worke of their hands. |
| 65 | Giue them sorrow of heart, thy curse vnto them. |
| 66 | Persecute and destroy them in anger, from vnder the heauens of the Lord. |