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Lamentations 3

1:   I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2:   He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, 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 skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5:   He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6:   He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
7:   He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
8:   Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9:   He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10:   He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and 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 was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
15:   He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16:   He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17:   And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
18:   And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
19:   Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20:   My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21:   This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

22:   It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because 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 both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27:   It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28:   He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
29:   He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
30:   He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
31:   For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
32:   But 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 his feet 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 man for the punishment of his sins?
40:   Let us search and try our ways, and turn again 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 persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44:   Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
45:   Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46:   All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47:   Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48:   Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49:   Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
50:   Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
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 have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54:   Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55:   I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56:   Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, 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 imaginations against me.
61:   Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
62:   The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63:   Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
64:   Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65:   Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
66:   Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.