Thematic Bible
Lamentations 3:1 (show verse)
{Aleph} I am the man, that, through the rod of his wrath, have experience of misery.
Lamentations 3:2 (show verse)
He drove me forth, and led me: Yea, into darkness, but not in to light.
Lamentations 3:3 (show verse)
Against me only he turneth his hand, and layeth it ever upon me.
Lamentations 3:4 (show verse)
{Beth} My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised.
Lamentations 3:5 (show verse)
He hath builded round about me, and closed me in with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3:6 (show verse)
He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead forever.
Lamentations 3:7 (show verse)
{Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.
Lamentations 3:8 (show verse)
Though I cry and call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9 (show verse)
He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:10 (show verse)
{Daleth} He layeth wait for me like a Bear, and as a lion in a hole.
Lamentations 3:11 (show verse)
He hath marred my ways, and broken me in pieces: he hath laid me waste altogether.
Lamentations 3:12 (show verse)
He hath bent his bow, and made me as it were a mark to shoot at.
Lamentations 3:13 (show verse)
{He} The arrows of his quiver hath he shot, even into my reins.
Lamentations 3:14 (show verse)
I am laughed to scorn of all my people; they make songs upon me all the day long.
Lamentations 3:15 (show verse)
He hath filled me with bitterness, and given me wormwood to drink.
Lamentations 3:16 (show verse)
{Vav} He hath smitten my teeth in pieces, and rolled me in the dust.
Lamentations 3:17 (show verse)
He hath put my soul out of rest; I forget all good things.
Lamentations 3:18 (show verse)
I thought in myself, "I am undone; there is no hope for me in the LORD."
Lamentations 3:19 (show verse)
{Zayin} O remember yet my misery and my trouble; the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:20 (show verse)
Yea, thou shalt remember them, for my soul melteth away in me.
Lamentations 3:21 (show verse)
While I consider these things in my heart, I get a hope again.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:22 (show verse)
{Khet} Namely, that the mercies of the LORD are not clean gone, and that his loving-kindness ceaseth not.
Lamentations 3:23 (show verse)
His faithfulness is great and reneweth itself as the morning.
Lamentations 3:24 (show verse)
"The LORD is my portion," sayeth my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations 3:25 (show verse)
{Tet} O how good is the LORD unto them that put their trust in him, and to the soul that seeketh after him?
Lamentations 3:26 (show verse)
O how good is it, with stillness, to wait and tarry for the health of the LORD?
Lamentations 3:27 (show verse)
O how good is it, for a man, to take the yoke upon him from his youth up?
Lamentations 3:28 (show verse)
{Yod} He sitteth alone, he holdeth him still, and dwelleth quietly by himself.
Lamentations 3:29 (show verse)
He layeth his face upon the earth, if, percase, there happen to be any hope.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:30 (show verse)
He offereth his cheek to the smiter; he will be content with reproves.
Lamentations 3:31 (show verse)
{Khaf} For the LORD will not forsake forever.
Lamentations 3:32 (show verse)
But though he do cast off, yet according to the multitude of his mercies, he receiveth to grace again.
Lamentations 3:33 (show verse)
For he doth not plague, and cast out the children of men from his heart.
Lamentations 3:34 (show verse)
{Lamed} To tread all the prisoners of the earth under his feet.
Lamentations 3:35 (show verse)
To move the judgment of man before the most highest.
Lamentations 3:36 (show verse)
To condemn a man in his cause; The LORD hath no pleasure in such things.
Lamentations 3:37 (show verse)
{Mem} What is he then that sayeth, "There should something be done without the LORD's commandment:
Lamentations 3:38 (show verse)
out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good"?
Lamentations 3:39 (show verse)
Wherefore then murmureth the living man, let him murmur at his own sin.
Lamentations 3:40 (show verse)
{Nun} Let us look well upon our own ways, and remember ourselves, and turn again to the LORD.
Lamentations 3:41 (show verse)
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto the God that is in heaven.
Lamentations 3:42 (show verse)
We have been dissemblers, and have offended; will thou therefore not be intreated?
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:43 (show verse)
{Samekh} Thou hast covered us in thy wrath, and persecuted us, thou hast slain us, without any favour.
Lamentations 3:44 (show verse)
Thou hast hid thyself in a cloud, that our prayer should not go through.
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Lamentations 3:45 (show verse)
Thou hast made us outcasts, and to be despised among the Heathen.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:46 (show verse)
{Ayin} All our enemies gape upon us.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:47 (show verse)
Fear and snare is come upon us; yea, despite and destruction.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:48 (show verse)
Whole rivers of water gush out of mine eyes, for the great hurt of my people.
Lamentations 3:49 (show verse)
{Pe} Mine eyes run, and cannot cease, for there is no rest.
Lamentations 3:50 (show verse)
O LORD, when will thou look down from heaven, and consider?
Lamentations 3:51 (show verse)
Mine eye breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3:52 (show verse)
{Tsadi} Mine enemies hunted me out sharply, like a bird; yea, and that without a cause.
Lamentations 3:53 (show verse)
They have put down my life into a pit, and laid a stone upon me.
Lamentations 3:54 (show verse)
They poured water upon my head, then thought I, "Now am I undone."
Lamentations 3:55 (show verse)
{Kuf} I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the deep pit.
Lamentations 3:56 (show verse)
Thou hast heard my voice, and hast not turned away thine ears from my sighing and crying.
Lamentations 3:57 (show verse)
Thou hast inclined thyself unto me, when I called upon thee, and haste said, "Fear not."
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:58 (show verse)
{Res} Thou, O LORD, hast maintained the cause of my soul, and hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3:59 (show verse)
O LORD, thou hast seen my blasphemers; take thou my cause upon thee.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:60 (show verse)
Thou hast well considered how they go about to do me harm, and that all their counsels are against me.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:61 (show verse)
{Shin} Thou hast heard their despiteful words, O LORD; yea, and all their imaginations against me.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:62 (show verse)
The lips of mine enemies, and their devices that they take against me, all the day long.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:63 (show verse)
Thou seest also their sitting down and their rising up. They make their songs of nothing but me.
Lamentations 3:64 (show verse)
{Tav} Reward them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3:65 (show verse)
Give them the thing, that their own heart is afraid of: even thy curse.
Lamentations 3:66 (show verse)
Persecute them, O LORD, with thine indignation, and root them out from under the heaven.