Lamentations 3

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Lamentations 3

Jeremiah Shares Israel’s Affliction

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I am the man who has ^(A)seen affliction
Because of the rod of His wrath.

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He has driven me and made me walk
In ^(B)darkness and not in light.

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Surely against me He has ^(C)turned His hand
Repeatedly all the day.

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He has caused my ^(D)flesh and my skin to waste away,
He has ^(E)broken my bones.

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He has ^(F)besieged and encompassed me with ^(G)bitterness and hardship.

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In ^(H)dark places He has made me dwell,
Like those who have long been dead.

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He has ^(I)walled me in so that I cannot go out;
He has made my ^(a)^(J)chain heavy.

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Even when I cry out and call for help,
He ^(K)shuts out my prayer.

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He has ^(L)blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.

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He is to me like a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in secret places.

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He has turned aside my ways and ^(M)torn me to pieces;
He has made me desolate.

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He ^(N)bent His bow
And ^(O)set me as a target for the arrow.

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He made the ^(b)arrows of His ^(P)quiver
To enter into my ^(c)inward parts.

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I have become a ^(Q)laughingstock to all my people,
Their mocking ^(R)song all the day.

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He has ^(S)filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.

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He has ^(T)broken my teeth with ^(U)gravel;
He has made me cower in the ^(V)dust.

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My soul has been rejected ^(W)from peace;
I have forgotten ^(d)happiness.

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So I say, “My strength has perished,
And so has my ^(X)hope from the Lord.”

Hope of Relief in God’s Mercy

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Remember my affliction and my ^(e)wandering, the ^(Y)wormwood and bitterness.

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Surely ^(Z)my soul remembers
And is ^(AA)bowed down within me.

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This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have ^(AB)hope.

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The Lord’s ^(AC)lovingkindnesses ^(f)indeed never cease,
^(AD)For His compassions never fail.

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They are new ^(AE)every morning;
Great is ^(AF)Your faithfulness.

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“The Lord is my ^(AG)portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I ^(AH)have hope in Him.”

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The Lord is good to those who ^(AI)wait for Him,
To the ^(g)person who ^(AJ)seeks Him.

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It is good that he ^(AK)waits silently
For the salvation of the Lord.

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It is good for a man that he should bear
The yoke in his youth.

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Let him ^(AL)sit alone and be silent
Since He has laid it on him.

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Let him ^(h)put his mouth in the ^(AM)dust,
Perhaps there is ^(AN)hope.

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Let him give his ^(AO)cheek to ⁽ⁱ⁾the smiter,
Let him be filled with reproach.

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For the Lord will ^(AP)not reject forever,

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For if He causes grief,
Then He will have ^(AQ)compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness.

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For He ^(AR)does not afflict ^(j)willingly
Or grieve the sons of men.

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To crush under His feet
All the prisoners of the ^(k)land,

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To ^(l)deprive a man of ^(AS)justice
In the presence of the Most High,

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To ^(m)^(AT)defraud a man in his lawsuit—
Of these things the Lord does not ⁽ⁿ⁾approve.

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Who is ^(o)there who speaks and it ^(AU)comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?

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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That ^(p)^(AV)both good and ill go forth?

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Why should any living ^(q)mortal, or any man,
Offer ^(AW)complaint ^(r)in view of his sins?

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Let us ^(AX)examine and probe our ways,
And let us return to the Lord.

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We ^(AY)lift up our heart ^(s)and hands
Toward God in heaven;

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We have ^(AZ)transgressed and rebelled,
You have ^(BA)not pardoned.

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You have covered Yourself with ^(BB)anger
And ^(BC)pursued us;
You have slain and ^(BD)have not spared.

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You have ^(BE)covered Yourself with a cloud
So that ^(BF)no prayer can pass through.

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You have made us mere ^(BG)offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.

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All our enemies have ^(BH)opened their mouths against us.

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^(BI)Panic and pitfall have befallen us,
Devastation and destruction;

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My ^(t)^(BJ)eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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My eyes pour down ^(BK)unceasingly,
Without stopping,

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Until the Lord ^(BL)looks down
And sees from heaven.

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My eyes bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.

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My enemies ^(BM)without cause
Hunted me down ^(BN)like a bird;

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They have silenced ^(u)me ^(BO)in the pit
And have ^(v)^(BP)placed a stone on me.

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Waters flowed ^(BQ)over my head;
I said, “I am cut off!”

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I ^(BR)called on Your name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest pit.

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You have ^(BS)heard my voice,
“^(BT)Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”

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You ^(BU)drew near when I called on You;
You said, “^(BV)Do not fear!”

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O Lord, You ^(BW)have pleaded my soul’s cause;
You have ^(BX)redeemed my life.

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O Lord, You have ^(BY)seen my oppression;
^(BZ)Judge my case.

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You have seen all their vengeance,
All their ^(CA)schemes against me.

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You have heard their ^(CB)reproach, O Lord,
All their schemes against me.

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The ^(CC)lips of my assailants and their whispering
Are against me all day long.

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Look on their ^(CD)sitting and their rising;
^(CE)I am their mocking song.

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You will ^(CF)recompense them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.

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You will give them ^(w)^(CG)hardness of heart,
Your curse will be on them.

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You will ^(CH)pursue them in anger and destroy them
From under the ^(CI)heavens of the Lord!

Footnotes:

a. Lamentations 3:7: ['Lit ', bronze piece]

b. Lamentations 3:13: ['Lit ', sons]

c. Lamentations 3:13: ['Lit ', kidneys]

d. Lamentations 3:17: ['Lit ', good]

e. Lamentations 3:19: ['Or ', bitterness]

f. Lamentations 3:22: ['Or ', that we are not consumed]

g. Lamentations 3:25: ['Lit ', soul]

h. Lamentations 3:29: ['Lit ', give]

i. Lamentations 3:30: ['Lit ', his]

j. Lamentations 3:33: ['Lit ', from His heart]

k. Lamentations 3:34: ['Or ', earth]

l. Lamentations 3:35: ['Or ', turn aside a man’s case]

m. Lamentations 3:36: ['Lit ', make crooked]

n. Lamentations 3:36: ['Lit ', see]

o. Lamentations 3:37: ['Lit ', this]

p. Lamentations 3:38: ['Lit ', the evil, ' things ', and the good]

q. Lamentations 3:39: ['Or ', human being]

r. Lamentations 3:39: ['Or ', on the basis of]

s. Lamentations 3:41: ['Lit ', toward, ' our']

t. Lamentations 3:48: ['Lit ', eye brings]

u. Lamentations 3:53: ['Lit ', my life]

v. Lamentations 3:53: ['Or ', cast stones]

w. Lamentations 3:65: ['Or ', insolence]

Cross references:

A. Lamentations 3:1: Psalm 88:7; Psalm 88:15; Psalm 88:16

B. Lamentations 3:2: Job 30:26; Isaiah 59:9; Jeremiah 4:23

C. Lamentations 3:3: Psalm 38:2; Isaiah 5:25

D. Lamentations 3:4: Psalm 31:9; Psalm 31:10; Psalm 38:2-8; Psalm 102:3-5

E. Lamentations 3:4: Psalm 51:8; Isaiah 38:13

F. Lamentations 3:5: Job 19:8

G. Lamentations 3:5: Jeremiah 23:15; Lamentations 3:19

H. Lamentations 3:6: Psalm 88:5; Psalm 88:6; Psalm 143:3

I. Lamentations 3:7: Job 3:23; Job 19:8

J. Lamentations 3:7: Jeremiah 40:4

K. Lamentations 3:8: Job 30:20; Psalm 22:2

L. Lamentations 3:9: Isaiah 63:17; Hosea 2:6

M. Lamentations 3:11: Job 16:12; Job 16:13; Jeremiah 15:3; Hosea 6:1

N. Lamentations 3:12: Psalm 7:12; Lamentations 2:4

O. Lamentations 3:12: Job 6:4; Job 7:20; Psalm 38:2

P. Lamentations 3:13: Jeremiah 5:16

Q. Lamentations 3:14: Psalm 22:6; Psalm 22:7; Psalm 123:4; Jeremiah 20:7

R. Lamentations 3:14: Job 30:9; Lamentations 3:63

S. Lamentations 3:15: Jeremiah 9:15

T. Lamentations 3:16: Psalm 3:7; Psalm 58:6

U. Lamentations 3:16: Proverbs 20:17

V. Lamentations 3:16: Jeremiah 6:26

W. Lamentations 3:17: Isaiah 59:11; Jeremiah 12:12

X. Lamentations 3:18: Job 17:15; Ezekiel 37:11

Y. Lamentations 3:19: Jeremiah 9:15; Lamentations 3:5; Lamentations 3:15

Z. Lamentations 3:20: Job 21:6

AA. Lamentations 3:20: Psalm 42:5; Psalm 42:6; Psalm 42:11; Psalm 43:5; Psalm 44:25

AB. Lamentations 3:21: Psalm 130:7

AC. Lamentations 3:22: Psalm 78:38; Jeremiah 3:12; Jeremiah 30:11

AD. Lamentations 3:22: Malachi 3:6

AE. Lamentations 3:23: Isaiah 33:2; Zephaniah 3:5

AF. Lamentations 3:23: Hebrews 10:23

AG. Lamentations 3:24: Psalm 16:5; Psalm 73:26

AH. Lamentations 3:24: Psalm 33:18

AI. Lamentations 3:25: Psalm 27:14; Isaiah 25:9

AJ. Lamentations 3:25: Isaiah 26:9

AK. Lamentations 3:26: Psalm 37:7

AL. Lamentations 3:28: Jeremiah 15:17

AM. Lamentations 3:29: Job 16:15; Job 40:4

AN. Lamentations 3:29: Jeremiah 31:17

AO. Lamentations 3:30: Job 16:10; Isaiah 50:6

AP. Lamentations 3:31: Psalm 77:7; Psalm 94:14; Isaiah 54:7-10

AQ. Lamentations 3:32: Psalm 78:38; Psalm 106:43-45; Hosea 11:8

AR. Lamentations 3:33: Psalm 119:67; Psalm 119:71; Psalm 119:75; Ezekiel 33:11; Hebrews 12:10

AS. Lamentations 3:35: Psalm 140:12; Proverbs 17:15

AT. Lamentations 3:36: Jeremiah 22:3; Habakkuk 1:13

AU. Lamentations 3:37: Psalm 33:9-11

AV. Lamentations 3:38: Job 2:10; Isaiah 45:7; Jeremiah 32:42

AW. Lamentations 3:39: Jeremiah 30:15; Micah 7:9; Hebrews 12:5; Hebrews 12:6

AX. Lamentations 3:40: Psalm 119:59; Psalm 139:23; Psalm 139:24; 2 Corinthians 13:5

AY. Lamentations 3:41: Psalm 25:1; Psalm 28:2; Psalm 141:2

AZ. Lamentations 3:42: Nehemiah 9:26; Jeremiah 14:20; Daniel 9:5

BA. Lamentations 3:42: Jeremiah 5:7; Jeremiah 5:9

BB. Lamentations 3:43: Lamentations 2:21

BC. Lamentations 3:43: Psalm 83:15; Lamentations 3:66

BD. Lamentations 3:43: Lamentations 2:2; Lamentations 2:17; Lamentations 2:21

BE. Lamentations 3:44: Psalm 97:2

BF. Lamentations 3:44: Lamentations 3:8; Zechariah 7:13

BG. Lamentations 3:45: 1 Corinthians 4:13

BH. Lamentations 3:46: Job 30:9; Job 30:10; Psalm 22:6-8; Lamentations 2:16

BI. Lamentations 3:47: Isaiah 24:17; Isaiah 24:18; Jeremiah 48:43; Jeremiah 48:44

BJ. Lamentations 3:48: Psalm 119:136; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 9:18; Lamentations 1:16; Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 2:18

BK. Lamentations 3:49: Psalm 77:2; Jeremiah 14:17

BL. Lamentations 3:50: Psalm 80:14; Isaiah 63:15; Lamentations 5:1

BM. Lamentations 3:52: Psalm 35:7; Psalm 35:19

BN. Lamentations 3:52: 1 Samuel 26:20; Psalm 11:1; Psalm 124:7

BO. Lamentations 3:53: Jeremiah 37:16; Jeremiah 38:6; Jeremiah 38:9

BP. Lamentations 3:53: Daniel 6:17

BQ. Lamentations 3:54: Psalm 69:2; Jonah 2:3-5

BR. Lamentations 3:55: Psalm 130:1; Jonah 2:2

BS. Lamentations 3:56: Job 34:28

BT. Lamentations 3:56: Psalm 55:1

BU. Lamentations 3:57: Psalm 145:18

BV. Lamentations 3:57: Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 41:14

BW. Lamentations 3:58: Jeremiah 50:34

BX. Lamentations 3:58: Psalm 34:22

BY. Lamentations 3:59: Jeremiah 18:19; Jeremiah 18:20

BZ. Lamentations 3:59: Psalm 26:1; Psalm 43:1

CA. Lamentations 3:60: Jeremiah 11:19

CB. Lamentations 3:61: Psalm 74:18; Psalm 89:50; Lamentations 5:1; Zephaniah 2:8

CC. Lamentations 3:62: Psalm 59:7; Psalm 59:12; Psalm 140:3; Ezekiel 36:3

CD. Lamentations 3:63: Psalm 139:2

CE. Lamentations 3:63: Job 30:9; Lamentations 3:14

CF. Lamentations 3:64: Psalm 28:4; Jeremiah 51:6; Jeremiah 51:24; Jeremiah 51:56

CG. Lamentations 3:65: Exodus 14:8; Deuteronomy 2:30; Isaiah 6:10

CH. Lamentations 3:66: Lamentations 3:43

CI. Lamentations 3:66: Psalm 8:3