Thematic Bible
Lamentations 3:1 (show verse)
Because of the rod of His wrath.
Lamentations 3:2 (show verse)
He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
Lamentations 3:3 (show verse)
Surely He has turned His hand against me
Repeatedly all the day.
Lamentations 3:4 (show verse)
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away;
He has shattered my bones.
Lamentations 3:5 (show verse)
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Lamentations 3:6 (show verse)
He has made me live in dark places
Like those who have long been dead.
Lamentations 3:7 (show verse)
He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.
Lamentations 3:8 (show verse)
Even when I cry out and shout for help,
He shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9 (show verse)
He has blocked my ways with cut stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:10 (show verse)
He is to me like a bear lying in wait,
And like a lion [hiding] in secret places.
Lamentations 3:11 (show verse)
He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces;
He has made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:12 (show verse)
He has bent His bow
And set me as a target for the arrow.
Lamentations 3:13 (show verse)
He has caused the arrows of His quiver
To enter my inner parts.
Lamentations 3:14 (show verse)
I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people,
And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.
Lamentations 3:15 (show verse)
He has filled me with bitterness;
He has made me drunk with wormwood (bitterness).
Lamentations 3:16 (show verse)
He has broken my teeth with gravel;
He has [covered me with ashes and] made me cower in the dust.
Lamentations 3:17 (show verse)
My soul has been cast far away from peace;
I have forgotten happiness.
Lamentations 3:18 (show verse)
So I say, “My strength has perished
And so has my hope and expectation from the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:19 (show verse)
Remember [O Lord] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).
Lamentations 3:20 (show verse)
My soul continually remembers them
And is bowed down within me.
Lamentations 3:21 (show verse)
But this I call to mind,
Therefore I have hope.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:22 (show verse)
It is because of the Lord’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed,
Because His [tender] compassions never fail.
Lamentations 3:23 (show verse)
They are new every morning;
Great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:24 (show verse)
“The Lord is my portion and my inheritance,” says my soul;
“Therefore I have hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him.”
Lamentations 3:25 (show verse)
The Lord is good to those who wait [confidently] for Him,
To those who seek Him [on the authority of God’s word].
Lamentations 3:26 (show verse)
It is good that one waits quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:27 (show verse)
It is good for a man that he should bear
The yoke [of godly discipline] in his youth.
Lamentations 3:28 (show verse)
Let him sit alone [in hope] and keep quiet,
Because God has laid it on him [for his benefit].
Lamentations 3:29 (show verse)
Let him put his mouth in the dust [in recognition of his unworthiness];
There may yet be hope.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:30 (show verse)
Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him;
Let him be filled with reproach.
Lamentations 3:31 (show verse)
For the Lord will not reject forever,
Lamentations 3:32 (show verse)
For if He causes grief,
Then He will have compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness and tender mercy.
Lamentations 3:33 (show verse)
For He does not afflict willingly and from His heart
Or grieve the children of men.
Lamentations 3:34 (show verse)
To trample and crush under His feet
All the prisoners of the land,
Lamentations 3:35 (show verse)
To deprive a man of justice
In the presence of the Most High,
Lamentations 3:36 (show verse)
To defraud a man in his lawsuit—
The Lord does not approve of these things.
Lamentations 3:37 (show verse)
Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has authorized and commanded it?
Lamentations 3:38 (show verse)
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both adversity (misfortune) and good (prosperity, happiness) proceed?
Lamentations 3:39 (show verse)
Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Complain [of punishment] in view of his sins?
Lamentations 3:40 (show verse)
Let us test and examine our ways,
And let us return to the Lord.
Lamentations 3:41 (show verse)
Let us lift up our hearts and our hands [in prayer]
Toward God in heaven;
Lamentations 3:42 (show verse)
We have transgressed and rebelled,
You have not pardoned.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:43 (show verse)
You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain [without pity] and have not spared.
Lamentations 3:44 (show verse)
You have covered Yourself with a cloud
So that no prayer can pass through.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:45 (show verse)
You have made us scum and refuse
Among the peoples (Gentile nations).
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:46 (show verse)
All our enemies have gaped at us.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:47 (show verse)
Panic and pitfall (traps, danger) have come on us,
Devastation and destruction.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:48 (show verse)
My eyes overflow with streams of tears
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people (Jerusalem).
Lamentations 3:49 (show verse)
My eyes overflow unceasingly,
Without stopping,
Lamentations 3:50 (show verse)
Until the Lord looks down
And sees from heaven.
Lamentations 3:51 (show verse)
My eyes [see things that] bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3:52 (show verse)
Without cause my enemies
Hunted me down like a bird;
Lamentations 3:53 (show verse)
They silenced me in the pit
And placed a stone over me.
Lamentations 3:54 (show verse)
The waters ran down on my head;
I said, “I am cut off (destroyed)!”
Lamentations 3:55 (show verse)
I called on Your name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest pit.
Lamentations 3:56 (show verse)
You have heard my voice,
“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”
Lamentations 3:57 (show verse)
You drew near on the day I called to You;
You said, “Do not fear.”
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:58 (show verse)
O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause [You have guided my way and protected me];
You have rescued and redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3:59 (show verse)
O Lord, You have seen the wrong [done to me];
Judge my case.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:60 (show verse)
You have seen all their vengeance,
All their schemes against me.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:61 (show verse)
You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
And all their schemes against me.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:62 (show verse)
The lips and whispering of my assailants
Are against me all day long.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:63 (show verse)
Look at their sitting and their rising [their actions and secret counsels];
I am their mocking song [the subject of their ridicule].
Lamentations 3:64 (show verse)
You will repay them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3:65 (show verse)
You will harden their hearts;
Your curse will be upon them.
Lamentations 3:66 (show verse)
You will pursue them in anger and destroy them
From under the heavens of the Lord.