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Lamentations 3:1 (show verse)
I, am the man, that hath seen affliction, by the rod of his indignation;
Lamentations 3:2 (show verse)
Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;
Lamentations 3:3 (show verse)
Surely, against me, doth he again and again, turn his hand all the day.
Lamentations 3:4 (show verse)
He hath worn out my flesh and my skin, hath broken my bones;
Lamentations 3:5 (show verse)
He hath built up against me, and carried round me, fortifications and a trench;
Lamentations 3:6 (show verse)
In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.
Lamentations 3:7 (show verse)
He hath walled up around me, that I cannot get out, hath weighted my fetter;
Lamentations 3:8 (show verse)
Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut out my prayer;
Lamentations 3:9 (show verse)
He hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back.
Lamentations 3:10 (show verse)
A bear lying in wait, he is to me, a lion, in secret places;
Lamentations 3:11 (show verse)
My ways, hath he turned aside, and hath torn me in pieces, hath made me desolate;
Lamentations 3:12 (show verse)
He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3:13 (show verse)
He hath caused to enter my reins, the sons of his quiver;
Lamentations 3:14 (show verse)
I have become a derision to all my people, their song all the day;
Lamentations 3:15 (show verse)
He hath sated me with bitter things, hath drenched me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:16 (show verse)
And he hath crushed, with gravel-stones, my teeth, hath made me cower in ashes;
Lamentations 3:17 (show verse)
And thou hast thrust away from welfare, my soul, I have forgotten prosperity;
Lamentations 3:18 (show verse)
And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.
Lamentations 3:19 (show verse)
Remember my humiliation and my fleeings, the wormwood and poison;
Lamentations 3:20 (show verse)
Thou wilt, indeed remember, that, bowed down concerning myself, is my soul;
Lamentations 3:21 (show verse)
This, will I bring back to my heart, therefore, will I hope.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:22 (show verse)
The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, verily they are not exhausted, Verily! not at an end, are his compassions:
Lamentations 3:23 (show verse)
New things for the mornings! Abundant is thy faithfulness:
Lamentations 3:24 (show verse)
My portion, is Yahweh, saith my soul, For this cause, will I wait for him.
Lamentations 3:25 (show verse)
Good is Yahweh, to them who wait for him, to the soul that will seek him;
God » Voice of select readings » Waiting for
God, Goodness of » Manifested » To his church
Patience » In waiting for God
Seeking God » Ensures » His favor
Waiting » Those that wait on the lord
Waiting » Those who engage in » Experience his goodness
Waiting upon God » They who engage in » Experience his goodness
God, Goodness of » Manifested » To his church
Patience » In waiting for God
Seeking God » Ensures » His favor
Waiting » Those that wait on the lord
Waiting » Those who engage in » Experience his goodness
Waiting upon God » They who engage in » Experience his goodness
Lamentations 3:26 (show verse)
Good it is - both to wait and to be silent, for the deliverance of Yahweh;
Lamentations 3:27 (show verse)
Good it is for a man, that he should bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3:28 (show verse)
Let him sit alone, and keep silence, because he took it upon himself:
Lamentations 3:29 (show verse)
Let him put, in the dust, his mouth, peradventure, there is hope!
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:30 (show verse)
Let him give, to him that smiteth him, his cheek, let him be sated with reproach.
Lamentations 3:31 (show verse)
Surely My Lord, will not cast off, unto times age-abiding;
Lamentations 3:32 (show verse)
Surely, though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses;
Lamentations 3:33 (show verse)
Surely he hath not afflicted from his heart, nor caused sorrow to the sons of men.
Lamentations 3:34 (show verse)
To crush, under his feet, any of the prisoners of the earth;
Lamentations 3:35 (show verse)
To turn aside the right of a man, before the face of the Most High;
Lamentations 3:36 (show verse)
To oppress a son of earth in his cause, My Lord, hath made no provision.
Lamentations 3:37 (show verse)
Who was it that spake, and it was done, when , My Lord, had not commanded?
Lamentations 3:38 (show verse)
Out of the mouth of the Most High, Proceed there not misfortunes and blessing?
Lamentations 3:39 (show verse)
Why should a living son of earth complain, Let a man complain because of his sins?
Afflicted saints » Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements
Afflictions » The lord not afflicting
Anger of God » To be born with submission
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Murmuring » Condemned
Murmuring » Unreasonableness of
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Sin
Resignation » Motives to » Our own sinfulness
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Afflictions » The lord not afflicting
Anger of God » To be born with submission
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Murmuring » Condemned
Murmuring » Unreasonableness of
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Sin
Resignation » Motives to » Our own sinfulness
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Lamentations 3:40 (show verse)
Let us search out our ways, and examine them well, and let us return unto Yahweh;
Awakenings and religious reforms » Revivals (select reading, isa chap 35) isa 35 » General references to
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Conversion » Through the instrumentality of » Self-examination
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With purpose of amendment
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With diligent search
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Conversion » Through the instrumentality of » Self-examination
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With purpose of amendment
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With diligent search
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Lamentations 3:41 (show verse)
Let us lift up our heart, to the opened palms, to the Mighty One in the heavens;
Lamentations 3:42 (show verse)
We, have trespassed and rebelled, Thou, hast not pardoned.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:43 (show verse)
Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us, hast slain - hast not spared;
Lamentations 3:44 (show verse)
Thou hast screened thyself with the clouds, that prayer, should not pass through;
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:45 (show verse)
Offscouring and refuse, dost thou make us, in the midst of the peoples.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:46 (show verse)
With their mouth, opened wide over us, stand all our foes.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:47 (show verse)
Terror and a pit, have befallen us, tumult and grievous injury;
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:48 (show verse)
With streams of water, mine eye runneth down, over the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:49 (show verse)
Mine eye, poureth itself out and ceaseth not, without relief;
Lamentations 3:50 (show verse)
Until Yahweh out of the heavens shall look forth, and see,
Lamentations 3:51 (show verse)
Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3:52 (show verse)
They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause:
Lamentations 3:53 (show verse)
They have cut off, in the dungeon, my life, and have cast a stone upon me;
Lamentations 3:54 (show verse)
Waters, flowed over, my head, I said, I am cut off!
Lamentations 3:55 (show verse)
I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below;
Lamentations 3:56 (show verse)
My voice, thou hast heard, - do not close thine ear to my respite, to mine outcry;
Lamentations 3:57 (show verse)
Thou drewest near, in the day I kept calling on thee, thou saidst, Do not fear!
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:58 (show verse)
Thou hast pleaded, O My Lord, the pleas of my soul, hast redeemed my life;
Lamentations 3:59 (show verse)
Thou hast beheld, O Yahweh, my failure to get justice, Pronounce thou my sentence;
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:60 (show verse)
Thou hast seen all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:61 (show verse)
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Yahweh, all their plots against me;
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:62 (show verse)
The lips of mine assailants, and their mutterings, are against me, all the day;
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:63 (show verse)
On their downsitting and their uprising, do thou look, I, am their song.
Lamentations 3:64 (show verse)
Thou wilt render to them a recompense, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands;
Lamentations 3:65 (show verse)
Thou wilt suffer them a veiling of heart, thy curse to them;
Lamentations 3:66 (show verse)
Thou wilt pursue in anger, and wilt destroy them, from under the heavens of Yahweh.