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Themes in Lamentations 3
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Themes in Lamentations 3

Lamentations 3:1

I am the man who has seen affliction
Because of the rod of His wrath.

Lamentations 3:2

He has driven me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.

Lamentations 3:3

Surely against me He has turned His hand
Repeatedly all the day.

Lamentations 3:4

He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away,
He has broken my bones.

Lamentations 3:5

He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.

Lamentations 3:6

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

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me in so that I cannot go out;
He has made my chain heavy.

Lamentations 3:8

Even when I cry out and call for help,
He shuts out my prayer.

Lamentations 3:9

He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 3:10

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

Lamentations 3:11

He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces;
He has made me desolate.

Lamentations 3:12

He bent His bow
And set me as a target for the arrow.

Lamentations 3:13

He made the arrows of His quiver
To enter into my inward parts.

Lamentations 3:14

I have become a laughingstock to all my people,
Their mocking song all the day.

Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:16

He has broken my teeth with gravel;
He has made me cower in the dust.

Lamentations 3:17

My soul has been rejected from peace;
I have forgotten happiness.

Lamentations 3:18

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

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.

Lamentations 3:20

Surely my soul remembers
And is bowed down within me.

Lamentations 3:21

This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:22

The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.

Lamentations 3:23

They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:24

“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I have hope in Him.”

Lamentations 3:25

The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the person who seeks Him.

Lamentations 3:26

It is good that he waits silently
For the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:27

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

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone and be silent
Since He has laid it on him.

Lamentations 3:29

Let him put his mouth in the dust,
Perhaps there is hope.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:30

Let him give his cheek to the smiter,
Let him be filled with reproach.

Lamentations 3:31

For the Lord will not reject forever,

Lamentations 3:32

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

Lamentations 3:33

For He does not afflict willingly
Or grieve the sons of men.

Lamentations 3:34

To crush under His feet
All the prisoners of the land,

Lamentations 3:35

To deprive a man of justice
In the presence of the Most High,

Lamentations 3:36

To defraud a man in his lawsuit—
Of these things the Lord does not approve.

Lamentations 3:37

Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?

Lamentations 3:38

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both good and ill go forth?

Lamentations 3:39

Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Offer complaint in view of his sins?

Lamentations 3:40

Let us examine and probe our ways,
And let us return to the Lord.

Lamentations 3:41

We lift up our heart and hands
Toward God in heaven;

Lamentations 3:42

We have transgressed and rebelled,
You have not pardoned.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:43

You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and have not spared.

Lamentations 3:44

You have covered Yourself with a cloud
So that no prayer can pass through.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:45

You have made us mere offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:47

Panic and pitfall have befallen us,
Devastation and destruction;
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:48

My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 3:49

My eyes pour down unceasingly,
Without stopping,

Lamentations 3:50

Until the Lord looks down
And sees from heaven.

Lamentations 3:51

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

Lamentations 3:52

My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird;

Lamentations 3:53

They have silenced me in the pit
And have placed a stone on me.

Lamentations 3:54

Waters flowed over my head;
I said, “I am cut off!”

Lamentations 3:55

I called on Your name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest pit.

Lamentations 3:56

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

Lamentations 3:57

You drew near when I called on You;
You said, “Do not fear!”
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:58

O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause;
You have redeemed my life.

Lamentations 3:59

O Lord, You have seen my oppression;
Judge my case.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:60

You have seen all their vengeance,
All their schemes against me.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:61

You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
All their schemes against me.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips of my assailants and their whispering
Are against me all day long.
No Themes for this verse.

Lamentations 3:63

Look on their sitting and their rising;
I am their mocking song.

Lamentations 3:64

You will recompense them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.

Lamentations 3:65

You will give them hardness of heart,
Your curse will be on them.

Lamentations 3:66

You will pursue them in anger and destroy them
From under the heavens of the Lord!
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