Thematic Bible
Lamentations 3:1 (show verse)
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:2 (show verse)
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Lamentations 3:3 (show verse)
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Lamentations 3:4 (show verse)
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 3:5 (show verse)
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3:6 (show verse)
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Lamentations 3:7 (show verse)
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3:8 (show verse)
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9 (show verse)
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:10 (show verse)
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3:11 (show verse)
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:12 (show verse)
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3:13 (show verse)
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Lamentations 3:14 (show verse)
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Lamentations 3:15 (show verse)
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:16 (show verse)
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3:17 (show verse)
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Lamentations 3:18 (show verse)
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Lamentations 3:19 (show verse)
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:20 (show verse)
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Lamentations 3:21 (show verse)
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:22 (show verse)
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lamentations 3:23 (show verse)
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:24 (show verse)
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations 3:25 (show verse)
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh 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)
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations 3:27 (show verse)
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3:28 (show verse)
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Lamentations 3:29 (show verse)
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:30 (show verse)
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
Lamentations 3:31 (show verse)
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
Lamentations 3:32 (show verse)
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Lamentations 3:33 (show verse)
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations 3:34 (show verse)
To crush under his feet all 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 subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
Lamentations 3:37 (show verse)
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Lamentations 3:38 (show verse)
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Lamentations 3:39 (show verse)
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment 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 and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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 with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3:42 (show verse)
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:43 (show verse)
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations 3:44 (show verse)
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:45 (show verse)
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:46 (show verse)
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:47 (show verse)
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:48 (show verse)
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:49 (show verse)
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Lamentations 3:50 (show verse)
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
Lamentations 3:51 (show verse)
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3:52 (show verse)
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations 3:53 (show verse)
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Lamentations 3:54 (show verse)
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3:55 (show verse)
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lamentations 3:56 (show verse)
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations 3:57 (show verse)
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:58 (show verse)
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3:59 (show verse)
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:60 (show verse)
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:61 (show verse)
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:62 (show verse)
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:63 (show verse)
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
Lamentations 3:64 (show verse)
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3:65 (show verse)
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
Lamentations 3:66 (show verse)
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.