Thematic Bible
Lamentations 3:1 (show verse)
Aleph I am a man that sees affliction in the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:2 (show verse)
Aleph He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Lamentations 3:3 (show verse)
Aleph Surely he is turned against me; he turns his hand against me all the day.
Lamentations 3:4 (show verse)
Beth My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.
Lamentations 3:5 (show verse)
Beth He has built against me and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3:6 (show verse)
Beth He has set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
Lamentations 3:7 (show verse)
Gimel He has hedged me about that I cannot get out; he has made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3:8 (show verse)
Gimel Even when I cried and shouted, he shut out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9 (show verse)
Gimel He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:10 (show verse)
Daleth He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3:11 (show verse)
Daleth He has made my ways crooked and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:12 (show verse)
Daleth He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3:13 (show verse)
He He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
Lamentations 3:14 (show verse)
He I was a derision to all my people and their song every day.
Lamentations 3:15 (show verse)
He He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:16 (show verse)
Vau He has broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3:17 (show verse)
Vau My soul removed itself far from peace; I forgot about good.
Lamentations 3:18 (show verse)
Vau And I said, My strength and my hope of the LORD is perished.
Lamentations 3:19 (show verse)
Zain Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:20 (show verse)
Zain My soul shall have them still in remembrance because it is humbled in me.
Lamentations 3:21 (show verse)
Zain This shall go down into my heart; therefore I shall wait.
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Lamentations 3:22 (show verse)
Chet It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.
Lamentations 3:23 (show verse)
Chet They are new every morning; great is thy faith.
Lamentations 3:24 (show verse)
Chet The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will wait for him.
Lamentations 3:25 (show verse)
Teth The LORD is good unto those that wait in him, to the soul that seeks him.
Lamentations 3:26 (show verse)
Teth It is good to wait quietly in the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations 3:27 (show verse)
Teth It is good for the man if he bears the yoke from his youth.
Lamentations 3:28 (show verse)
Jod He shall sit alone and keep silence because he has borne it upon him.
Lamentations 3:29 (show verse)
Jod He shall put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
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Lamentations 3:30 (show verse)
Jod He shall turn his cheek unto him that smites him; he shall be filled with reproach.
Lamentations 3:31 (show verse)
Caph For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
Lamentations 3:32 (show verse)
Caph But though he causes grief, yet he will also have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Lamentations 3:33 (show verse)
Caph For he does not afflict nor grieve the sons of men from his heart.
Lamentations 3:34 (show verse)
Lamed To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations 3:35 (show verse)
Lamed To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamentations 3:36 (show verse)
Lamed To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.
Lamentations 3:37 (show verse)
Mem Who shall he be that saith that something comes which the Lord has not sent?
Lamentations 3:38 (show verse)
Mem Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?
Lamentations 3:39 (show verse)
Mem Why does the living man have pain, the man in his sins?
Lamentations 3:40 (show verse)
Nun Let us search out our ways, and seek, and turn again to the LORD.
Lamentations 3:41 (show verse)
Nun Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3:42 (show verse)
Nun We have rebelled and been disloyal; therefore thou hast not forgiven.
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Lamentations 3:43 (show verse)
Samech Thou hast unfurled anger and persecuted us; thou hast slain, thou hast not forgiven.
Lamentations 3:44 (show verse)
Samech Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer should not pass through.
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Lamentations 3:45 (show verse)
Samech Thou hast made us as the offscouring and abomination in the midst of the peoples.
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Lamentations 3:46 (show verse)
Pe All our enemies have opened their mouths upon us.
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Lamentations 3:47 (show verse)
Pe Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
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Lamentations 3:48 (show verse)
Pe My eyes stream with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:49 (show verse)
Ain My eyes run down, and cease not, for there is no relief,
Lamentations 3:50 (show verse)
Ain Until the LORD looks down, and beholds from the heavens.
Lamentations 3:51 (show verse)
Ain My eyes make my soul sad because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3:52 (show verse)
Tzaddi My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations 3:53 (show verse)
Tzaddi They bound up my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Lamentations 3:54 (show verse)
Tzaddi Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am dead.
Lamentations 3:55 (show verse)
Koph I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations 3:56 (show verse)
Koph Thou hast heard my voice; do not hide thine ear at my cry that I might breath.
Lamentations 3:57 (show verse)
Koph Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou didst say, Fear not.
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Lamentations 3:58 (show verse)
Resh O Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3:59 (show verse)
Resh O LORD, thou hast seen where I was wrong; plead thou my cause.
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Lamentations 3:60 (show verse)
Resh Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
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Lamentations 3:61 (show verse)
Schin Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
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Lamentations 3:62 (show verse)
Schin The words of those that rose up against me, and their design against me all the day.
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Lamentations 3:63 (show verse)
Schin Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
Lamentations 3:64 (show verse)
Tau Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3:65 (show verse)
Tau Give them sorrow of heart; thy curse unto them.
Lamentations 3:66 (show verse)
Tau Persecute them in thy anger and cut them off from under the heavens, oh LORD.